Software Engineer, Core Services
Designs and operates critical backend platforms like caching, workflow orchestration, and metadata stores to enable scalable product development. Requires expertise in distributed systems, caching (Redis/Memcached), storage (FoundationDB), and orchestration (Temporal).
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure services such as caching layers, workflow orchestration (Temporal), metadata stores, and file storage services.
- Collaborate with product teams to provide scalable, reliable primitives that abstract the complexities of distributed systems.
- Improve performance, resilience, and scalability of core services that power customer-facing applications.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems, caching infrastructure (e.g., Redis, Memcached), metadata storage (e.g., FoundationDB), or workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal, Cadence).
- Experience running containerized services in cloud environments and integrating them into automated build/test/release (CI/CD) workflows.
- Understand trade-offs in consistency models, replication strategies, and performance optimization in multi-region systems.
- Excel at communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams, and are obsessed with delivering customer success.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Redis, Memcached, Foundationdb, Temporal, Cadence, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Platforms
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