Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Mid/Senior/Lead/Principal)

Distributed Systems Software Engineer - Public Cloud (Senior/Lead/Principal)

Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back‑end systems.

Your Impact

• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba
• Design and develop, debug and operate resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Use and contribute to open source technology (Spinnaker, Zookeeper, etc.)
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform
• Write microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Balance live‑site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Participate in the team’s on‑call rotation to address complex problems in real time and keep services operational and highly available

Required Skills

• A related technical degree is required
• 3+ years of backend software development experience
• Deep knowledge of programming in Java, Golang, Python, or Ruby
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of a critical service
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven Development
• Experience with critical infrastructure services including monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications
• Experience with distributed database systems and relational databases like PostgreSQL is a plus

Benefits & Perks

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