Senior Software Engineer

Your new company 

Your new role 

• Proactively identifying and fixing issues with distributed systems in the cloud.
• Spending time in the layers underneath the application business logic, such as the OS, container orchestration, network/service mesh, and data stores. 
• Digging deep into distributed systems to fully understand how they work and how to improve their resiliency and scalability.
• Engaging with product development, and foundation services groups, across all phases of the software lifecycle.
• Continuously improving your own and your teammates’ technical ability via pairing, pull request reviews, and collaborative feedback.
• Moving code and infrastructure-as-code changes through development and QA stages to production.
• Actively seeking to continually improve the infrastructure, code and processes.
• Providing the customers with the best experience.

What you'll need to succeed 

• 5+ years demonstrated ability improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems; SRE principles are also applicable.
• Proven understanding of cloud computing principles. AWS and Kubernetes preferred.
• The ability to read and understand Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Node.js, or other object-oriented programming languages and frameworks.
• We care about making the systems better, such as refactoring code to conform to company-wide standards, and improving service uptime.
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal - you’ll collaborate with the other product teams around the globe.

• The team supports a variety of services; we primarily host either Ruby on Rails or Node.js applications.
• Datastores such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached, and distributed streaming platforms like Kafka.
• AWS Network Load Balancers, NGINX reverse proxies, Istio service mesh.
• Cloud automation frameworks such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• The services are containerized and deployed to Kubernetes clusters, running in AWS. Previous experience with these technologies is preferred.

What you'll get in return 

What you need to do now 

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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