Principal Software Engineer, Advanced Development

About Us:

Join the team at OpenDrives, a data services company that is dedicated to solving complex technology problems with innovative yet practical solutions. Our customers range from Hollywood blockbusters, to medical imaging specialists, to academia, and everything in between. Our company's core values are summed up in the word OPEN, which stands for open-mindedness, persistence, effectiveness, and nimbleness. We are looking for empathetic, self-starting professionals who are passionate about exceeding customer expectations and who thrive in a collaborative, supportive environment. If you're a curious listener, with a commitment to excellence, and want to be part of an organization that is dedicated to solving real-world data management challenges, we invite you to apply to join our team today.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Research and Development for our new and existing product lines.
• Design and prototype validation of new technologies
• The creation, implementation, and support of features for our product line.
• Investigate and propose solutions at the product architecture level
• Discovery of opportunities to expand our technical and product capabilities
• Excellent communication with product, customer experience, and solutions departments.
• Promote growth and mentorship with all other Engineering team members
• Troubleshoot and solve significant, high-impact bugs in the product
• Demonstrate, document, and hand-off projects for long-term development
• Find holes/gaps in our workflow/products and bring in new ideas, propose solutions, and take ownership over execution.

Expertise:

The following technological expertise is desired:

• Experience designing and developing distributed systems, including
  • Highly Available Systems (pcs, pacemaker, corosync)
  • Hierarchical Storage Management (e.g. robinhood)
  • RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar message queue technologies
  • Cassandra, Redis, etcd or similar distributed database technologies
• Experience working with Kubernetes
• Experience developing solutions in a systems-oriented language, such as C, C++, Rust or Go
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python, Bash)
• Familiarity with web/frontend technologies like Typescript, JavaScript, etc.
• Knowledge of file systems, especially ZFS, SMB, NFS, and Lustre
• Knowledge of object storage technologies (e.g. S3, minio, ceph)
• Knowledge of database systems (e.g. relational databases, document databases, key-value stores)
• Proficiency with Linux System debugging
• Experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Competencies and Skills:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:

• A drive to learn, try multiple approaches, and iterate on solutions.
• The courage to ask questions, recognize what you don't yet know and seek the answers.
• The impulse to work with other team members on difficult problems
• A passion for making understandable, clean architectures and systems
• The ability to take a personal idea and transform it into one that team members can contribute to
• An understanding of the product and software development life cycles
• An empathetic and team-first disposition - we work with and for each other, and care for our team members as we care for ourselves
• Empowerment - We bring our talent, voice, and knowledge to each encounter.
• Effectiveness - We understand how to do our best work by picking the right tools, creating expectations and scheduling deadlines. We focus on incremental, value-driven delivery.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience preferred

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear; stand and walk. The employee must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up