Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable distributed system solutions for our cloud agnostic platform.
• Analyze fault-tolerance and high availability issues, performance and scale challenges, and solve them.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of projects, from identifying a solution to design, implementation, test, and safe production rollout.
• Understand trade-offs between consistency, durability, and costs to build solutions meeting demands of rapidly growing services.
• Build the next generation transaction system, caching, storage engine, and multi-tenant capabilities.
• Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture.
• Pinpoint problems, instrument relevant components as needed, and implement solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years industry experience designing, building, and supporting large-scale infrastructure in production.
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems infrastructure supporting stateful services.
• Experience in container orchestration, cluster management, or autoscaling.
• Excellent understanding of operating systems concepts including multi-threading, memory management, networking, storage, performance, and scale.
• Systems programming skills including multi-threading and concurrency.
• Fluency in Java.
• Solid understanding of the internals of Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenShift, or other container platforms.
• Track record of delivering highly complex projects in the distributed systems space.
• Intense curiosity, willingness to question, and passion for making systems better.
• BS in Computer Science.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with scalable Key-Value stores such as FoundationDB, RocksDB/LevelDB, DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
• Experience with one or more of the following: Big Data storage technologies and their applications (HDFS, Cassandra, Columnar Databases, etc.).
• Masters or PhD preferred.