Senior Software Development Engineer - Distributed Systems

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About the Team

About the Role

You will help run and evolve monitoring platform, at very large scale alongside a highly collaborative team of talented engineers.

You will own technical direction on the hardest problems we face in order to support AI driven demand: ingestion resilience, write & read performance, API hardening, security compliance, budget management in a high growth demand, etc.

You will also lead designs and RCAs, and mentor mid-level engineers.

What we're looking for:

• Solid DevOps and operations experience, including CI/CD, automation, on-call, and incident response.
• Familiarity with observability tooling and practices such as metrics, alerting, SLOs, and dashboards.
• A good grasp of distributed systems: scaling, resilience, and failure modes.
• Clear communication and the ability to guide design decisions.
• proficiency at leveraging AI enhancing engineering tooling and processes

Major plus:

• Kubernetes
• Python
• Go
• Prometheus/ Grafana ecosystems

About You

Basic Qualification

• 8+ years experience in software development engineering.
• 4+ years experience designing and developing distributed system components, demonstrating knowledge of principles such as consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Other Qualification

• Demonstrated ability in Algorithmic Thinking to design efficient and scalable solutions.
• Solid experience with API Development
• Good understanding of Code Testing methodologies and experience with doing so in a distributed environment.
• Strong understanding of Distributed Systems Software principles.
• Working knowledge of High Availability strategies and their implementation in distributed systems.
• Experience with Large Scale Data Processing technologies and frameworks such as Kafka within a distributed architecture.
• Good understanding of Large Scale Systems design principles.
• Good understanding of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) principles and their application in building modular and maintainable distributed components.
• Working experience with Source Control Management (SCM) tools such as GHE and branching strategies for collaborative distributed development.
• Basic understanding of System Security principles and best practices relevant to distributed environments.
• Proven ability in Team Collaboration within a distributed software development team.
• Good skills in creating Technical Writing Documentation for technical proposals, knowledge shares and user documentation.

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