Senior Software Engineer – Core Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer – Core Infrastructure

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
• Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++
• Experience with containers/Docker, and with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
• Experience working with and operating open source technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio, etc.
• BS+ in computer science or a related field

Responsibilities

• Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influence infrastructure roadmap, and lead as well as execute on various projects
• Architect and build out the core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key value store, schema-less data store, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management and hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, system for feature flags and A/B testing, traffic capture and replay, etc.
• Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
• Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications
• Regularly deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
• Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
• Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast
• High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn