Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Platform

We're looking for a Sr. Software Engineer - Cloud Platform to join our Core Platform Team. As a Senior+ contributor, you'll have bottom-up ownership of our codebase and a far-reaching edict for service resiliency. You'll develop and maintain services to meet reliability and scalability demands, and drive optimizations for the entire product's architecture. You'll also use and give back to the open source community, and evangelize best practices for building software.

Requirements

• United States Citizenship OR Permanent Residency is necessary to retain access to resources in AWS GovCloud
• 7+ years of full-time experience in a service-oriented backend developer role
• 5+ recent years developing microservices for a SaaS product, in one of the following object-oriented languages: Golang, Java, Scala, Kotlin, Python, Node.js
• Degree in Computer Science (or commensurate experience in data structures/algorithms/distributed systems)
• Expert-level knowledge of Golang
• The ability to scale backend systems – sharding, partitioning, scaling horizontally are second nature to you
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Deep understand multi-threading, concurrency, and parallel processing technologies
• Team player skills – we embrace collaborating as a team as much as possible
• A thorough understanding of engineering best practices from appropriate testing paradigms to effective peer code reviews and resilient architecture
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, test-driven, collaborative and iterative programming environment
• The skills to meet your commitments on time and produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration

Benefits

• Remote-friendly and flexible work culture
• Market leader in compensation and equity awards
• Comprehensive physical and mental wellness programs
• Competitive vacation and holidays for recharge
• Paid parental and adoption leaves
• Professional development opportunities for all employees regardless of level or role
• Employee Networks, geographic neighborhood groups, and volunteer opportunities to build connections
• Vibrant office culture with world class amenities
• Great Place to Work CertifiedTM across the globe