Position Description
Our Senior Engineer is a key member of the engineering staff working across the organization to provide a frictionless experience to our customers and maintain the highest standards of protection and availability. Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high-quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The ideal candidate has broad and deep technical knowledge, typically ranging from front-end UIs through back-end systems and all points in between.
Position Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, you will:
- Scope, design, and build scalable, resilient distributed systems
- Build product definition and leverage your technical skills to drive towards the right solution
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle
- Lead in design sessions and code reviews with peers to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
- Define, create, and support reusable application components/patterns from a business and technology perspective
- Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services
- Mentor other engineers
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
Qualifications
- Proficiency in Go programming language and knowledge of at least one other modern programming language such as Python, Java, C#
- Experience with at least one JavaScript technology such as React or Angular
- Proven understanding of microservices-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
- Experience architecting and designing new and current systems
- Advanced understanding of DevOps concepts including Azure DevOps framework and tools
- Experience in Open-Source tools like GIT and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
- Experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK)
- Understanding of operating PostgreSQL in a Kubernetes containerized environment
- Understanding of service integrations/communication standards (e.g., GRPC / REST)
- Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
- Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, and real-time communication)
- Knowledge of OpenStack/Kubernetes, containers, and best practices in a K8s environment
- Experience in Observability tools such as Prometheus/Grafana/Open Telemetry/Loki is a plus
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Good communication skills
Experience
- 4+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience