Role Overview
Our Staff Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems.
What You Will Do
As a Staff Engineer, you will focus on multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise, collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems, and develop and execute technical software development strategy for the Platform Engineering domain.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source Database platform domain, excellent communication skills, and experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Go programming language with advanced knowledge of at least one other OOP language such as Python, Java, C#, etc
- Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and data pipeline and architectures, scale and performance, and tuning, with good knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
- Advanced knowledge of web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is preferred
- Good knowledge of one of the following languages: VB, PHP, Perl, Ruby, SQL, etc.
- Understand open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc., and be familiar with No-SQL databases like ONgDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc.
- Experience in architecting, designing, and building automation, workflows, custom objects/apps, declarative functionality, triggers, and migration tools in the BMC Helix platform and transitioning such platform to Open Source is a big plus.
- Experience building and configuring flows, and process builders
- Strong understanding of web service integration (REST/SOAP) and enterprise middleware integration tiers
- Ability to articulate channel dataflow and process flow including email, messaging, chat, mobile Push and SDKs
- Excellent communication skills – needs to be able to lead projects from the front and interact with clients and sponsors regularly
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
- Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and Infrastructure as Code
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
- Experience with Windows Server Administration and Windows Event Log
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment
- Willing to work on both fast development and operation environment
- 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 in big data and streaming data pipeline architecture (Lambda/Kappa) and K8 cluster
- Experience in open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI, and knowledge in Terraform/Ansible is a plus
- Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
- 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 ML and AI technologies
- Knowledge of Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
- 6+ years of professional experience in software development, platform architecture, administration, governance, infrastructure management, installation, and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
- 4+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and design
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or hybrid data centre
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Benefits
- Remote work
- Competitive salary ($90,000 - $210,000 per year)
