Senior Software Engineer, InfluxDB Clustered

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading time series platform. More than 1,900 customers use InfluxDB to collect, store, and analyze all time series data at any scale. Developers can query and analyze their time-stamped data in real-time to discover, interpret, and share new insights to gain a competitive edge. InfluxData is a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com. 

InfluxData is a leading provider of time series databases and related products. We specialize in helping organizations efficiently store, analyze, and visualize massive amounts of time-stamped data in real-time. With a focus on performance, scalability, and ease of use, InfluxData's flagship product, InfluxDB, is widely trusted across industries such as IoT, finance, aerospace, and DevOps. We continually strive to enhance our offerings, including the development of the InfluxDB 3 product line, to meet the evolving demands of data-intensive applications.

InfluxDB 3 Clustered is a robust and scalable self-hosted time series database, designed to handle large-scale deployments. It offers the capability to scale across hundreds or even thousands of servers, allowing organizations to efficiently manage and store massive amounts of data with unlimited cardinality. This enables enterprises to tackle complex and high-velocity data streams, ensuring seamless data processing and analysis. InfluxDB 3 Clustered is deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, providing flexibility for organizations to choose their preferred infrastructure, including bare metal clusters or popular cloud providers. 

In this role, you will join a small team of skilled backend engineers, responsible for integrating the core database components, developing new services and features, debugging customers’ production issues, and developing tooling to enable our team and others to efficiently support thousands of large scale production deployments. We have a friendly culture that promotes cross-team collaboration, team work, shared learning, and a good work-life balance.

We’re a globally distributed, friendly, and cooperative team who thrive on interaction and collaboration while also maintaining a good work-life balance. We meet once a day as a team for a quick catch up. We encourage pairing as needed to get work done. We also meet, via video call, with the entire company a few times per week for 10 - 15 minutes to learn about what’s going on across the business and share news about upcoming events and activities.

What you’ll be doing

• Helping the team take InfluxDB 3 Clustered from the alpha stage to GA
• Working on our Kubernetes operator and helm chart (Rust, Jsonnet & YAML)
• Developing new features and services (Rust & Go)
• Developing internal and external tooling to support the database (Rust, Go, scripts)
• Working with colleagues in engineering and product managers to help prioritize features and define the product roadmap
• Working with InfluxDB 3 Dedicated & Serverless teams (our cloud products) to ensure commonality between products
• Upholding engineering best practices applied across projects and teams
• Mentoring and leveling up fellow teammates with pairing and code reviews

What you bring to the table

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience building and shipping production software
• Some Rust experience strongly preferred
• Some operational/systems experience 
• Experience deploying in at least one of the major cloud providers
• Self motivation and a drive to get stuff done
• Ability to work well independently or collaboratively
• Demonstrated proficiency in an established programming language (e.g. Rust, Go, C/C++)
• Willingness and enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies
• Working knowledge of Git (and GitHub) and related workflows
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Willingness to work remotely with technical counterparts at our customers to install, configure, and troubleshoot

Bonus Points

• Strong Rust and Kubernetes skills
• Have written Kubernetes operators
• Prior experience with Jsonnet
• Experience in continuous integration and delivery
• Experience working with distributed development teams
• Experience working with open source projects and related communities
• Experience building OLAP or non-relational databases (examples: InfluxDB, MongoDB, Redis, Etcd)
• Exposure to agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc)

Pay Transparency at InfluxData

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