Senior Software Engineer

Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Principal Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the open-source messaging and event streaming domain.  
  
Position Responsibilities  
As a Senior Engineer, you will:  

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems  

• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain  

• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions  

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, tuning, with good knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes  

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams  

• Take on-call and operational support  

  
Qualifications  

• Fluent in at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.  

• Good knowledge of two of the following languages: Java, C, C# or other object-oriented languages, PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, SQL, etc.  

• Understand open-source messaging and event streaming products like RabbitMQ and Kafka 

• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production  

• Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code  

• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms  

• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches  

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment  

• Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment   

• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)  

• Experience on open-source messaging and event streaming platforms with emphasis on building enterprise scale platforms 

• Knowledge in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster  

• Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a big plus  

• Familiarity with other messaging and event solutions like Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hub is a plus 

Experience  

• 4+ years of professional PaaS