Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - distributed systems required

Location: Remote (US Based Only)

*We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time*

Estimated salary range: $145,000 to $190,000

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidates experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

About Ocient:

Ocient is a hyperscale data solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL, enabling organizations to analyze trillions to quadrillions of data records in seconds. Over the past five years, Ocient has built a SQL compliant data warehouse for Petabyte and beyond datasets that is 10x to 50x times faster than competitive OLAP databases.

Job Overview:
Ocient is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join the Loading Engineering team. Loading Engineering is a software development team focused on Ocients Loading and Transformation platforms. The team works closely with end customers and the rest of the Ocient engineering teams to deliver massive-scale data solutions. Ideal candidates are passionate about large-scale systems engineering, high-performance distributed systems, and ensuring customer success. This role is specifically a technical lead position on the Streamloader team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and validate batch and stream loading systems to ingest terabytes of data per day.
• Lead architecture and design by closely partnering with architects and implementation with team members to deliver high-quality software.
• Collaborate across engineering teams and customer engagements to deliver world-class massive-scale data solutions.
• Program in modern C++ and/or Java to build and monitor distributed software systems.
• Work closely with Sales, Product, and End Customers to ensure business success.
• Contribute to engineering innovation

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership over small to medium sized teams.
• Strong fundamental computer science skills.
• Prior industry experience in building high-performance distributed systems in modern C++ and/or Java.
• The ability to own, communicate, and manage risk associated with large complex problems.
• A good working knowledge of Linux, networking, and databases.

An ideal candidate will have:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong coding capabilities in C++ and Java
• A polyglot skill set with a demonstrated ability and desire to work across different domains and problems.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, and refining end-to-end customer facing systems.

We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Ocient provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

All official Ocient job postings and recruiting communications will come directly from our team via our Careers page, LinkedIn, or from an ocient.com email address. If you receive communication about a role from any other source, please treat it with caution and direct questions to recruiting@ocient.com.