Software Engineer, Online Database Infrastructure
Design, implement, and operate scalable online database infrastructure and distributed systems, improving resiliency, efficiency, and developer tooling. Requires a bachelor's degree and at least five years of post-baccalaureate software development experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Contribute to team strategy, roadmap, tooling, processes, and culture.
- Scope, design, implement, and deploy robust solutions while balancing reliability, throughput, latency, resiliency, engineering velocity, and cost.
- Design and implement software solutions that improve infrastructure resiliency, reliability, efficiency, and management at scale.
- Uphold high engineering standards and improve codebases and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in software development.
- 5 years of experience developing, maintaining, and debugging distributed systems built with open-source tools.
- 5 years of experience building infrastructure as a product centered around users' needs.
- 5 years of experience scaling distributed systems.
- 5 years of experience breaking down large, complex systems.
- 5 years of experience identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities and making data-driven cost-performance tradeoffs.
- 5 years of experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers.
- Experience working in a development team using AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Java.
Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $206,086–$285,600 USD.
- Benefits may include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends.
- 40 hours per week.
- 50% telecommuting permitted.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Open-Source Tools, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GCP, Ruby, Go, Python, Java
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