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Senior Software Engineer, Storage
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Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
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Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Storage
Requirements and responsibilities
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About the Job
- You will be a senior engineer in the team responsible for Storage platforms, with a large amount of ownership and autonomy for setting technical direction, reporting to an engineering manager.
- You will work closely with other application engineering teams and internal stakeholders, owning a large part of the process from problem understanding to shipping the solution.
- You will ship high quality, scalable and robust solutions with a sense of urgency.
- You will have the freedom to suggest and drive high-impact initiatives related to in-memory storage solutions that unlock new innovations, accelerate application development, create resiliency & high-availability, and right-size storage needs company-wide.
About the Job
- Languages: Go, Python and Rust
- Core Platforms: Valkey, Redis, Memcd, EC2 and related open-source tools
- Observability and Analytics: Datadog, Cloudwatch, Sentry and Snowflake
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4+ years of working experience as a software engineer in one or more large-scale cloud services or application development environment
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience, delivering large-scale solutions with an industry-recognized in-memory datastore (ideally Valkey or Redis)
- 1+ Years experience building cloud-based control-plane software
- Self-motivation and an enjoyment for a growth-oriented startup environment
- A strong sense of ownership that drives improvements for customers as well as automation and scale for the systems.
- The drive & ability to dive deep into technical challenges and champion root causes, solving problems correctly.
- You enjoy being highly productive, shipping code, reviewing others’ PRs and iteratively guiding code bases towards best practices and excellence.
- You are able to scale yourself effectively via junior engineers and accelerate the team through effective designs, written & communication, delegation, establishing standards & best practices, code reviews.
- Strong ability to architect and design systems using common back-end Web technologies in a production environment
- An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
- Experience working with a large codebase on a cross functional team, with a knack for driving alignment across teams and stakeholders
- Demonstrated capacity to take existing, complex solutions and evolve them to meet the changing needs of the business.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, computer engineering, electrical engineering
- Familiarity with self-hosting core infrastructure
- You are a mentor to other software engineers, helping equip them and grow as software development professionals
- You like solving the kind of high-impact, org-wide problems that involve tackling abstract challenges and turning them into concrete programs that deliver successfully
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