About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. The role is based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, robust software and microservices that operate reliably at significant scale.
- Design APIs and software architectures for peer and technical review, with a focus on maintainability and long-term evolution.
- Build comprehensive automated tests that validate software behavior and service reliability.
- Develop and maintain fault-tolerant applications and distributed services.
- Contribute to API design, documentation, governance, and engineering standards.
- Improve scalability, performance, resilience, and availability across web services and distributed systems.
- Work with relational and non-relational databases, considering performance, reliability, and architectural trade-offs.
- Apply modern DevOps practices across continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployment, monitoring, tracing, and profiling.
- Diagnose complex technical issues, identify root causes, and implement high-quality solutions.
- Contribute to proactive security practices, including fuzzing and other security analysis techniques.
- Collaborate proactively with globally distributed engineering teams and contribute to cross-team technical initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership through design discussions, documentation, mentoring, and engagement with external technical communities.
- Contribute to technical documentation and help establish clear, reusable engineering knowledge.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering experience with a track record of building modern, maintainable, and scalable software.
- Proficiency in Python and/or Go.
- Experience designing and operating scalable web services, microservices, or systems software.
- Solid understanding of REST APIs, API architecture, documentation, and service design principles.
- Experience working with relational and non-relational database systems.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
- Experience with Linux, preferably Debian or Ubuntu.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, scalability, and fault-tolerant architecture.
- Professional written and spoken English.
- Strong analytical and debugging abilities.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- A degree in Computer Science, STEM, or a compelling alternative professional background.
- Additional experience with LXD, Docker, Kubernetes, or other container technologies is valuable.
- Familiarity with build systems, toolchains, or cross-compilation is a plus.
- Experience with hyperscale public or private cloud environments is beneficial.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems is advantageous.
- Background in performance engineering or application security is a plus.
Conditions
- Geographically adjusted compensation based on location, experience, and performance.
- Performance-driven annual bonus.
- Annual compensation review.
- Fully distributed work environment with twice-yearly in-person team sprints.
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
- Recognition rewards.
- Annual holiday leave.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Opportunities to travel and meet colleagues in different locations around the world.
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events.
- Work remotely while participating in international company events approximately twice per year.