Senior Software Engineer, Public Backup

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product teams, considering the user’s perspective while helping the team achieve success
• Collaborate with team members over best practices and core concepts
• Hold yourself accountable to your actions, maintaining the balance between accomplishing goals with research & development
• Own our core values and adhere to them in your work
• Stay up to date with best practices in web engineering

Requirements

• Skilled at writing large-scale, distributed backend systems in a compiled language (Java, C#, Go, etc.)
• Fond of chasing down tough problems in a distributed systems environment
• Cool under pressure - has wrangled production crises
• Experienced with Linux, and able to correlate application performance problems with underlying hardware limits
• Comfortable working across the stack of a modern web application
• Always striving to expand their knowledge
• Curious, collaborative and intellectually honest

Success Measures

• Are open, honest and willing to contribute and collaborate with others
• Develop confidence in finding their way across the platform
• Can take responsibility for the planning and execution of a major feature, representing Engineering when working with Product and Design
• Are willing to learn and contribute to all parts of the stack
• Are resolute in their approach to problem solving, balancing the needs of their team with the willingness to get to the bottom of issues