Associate Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - Moveworks
About The Position
This role involves working closely with various engineering teams, including machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend, to understand their infrastructure needs. The engineer will influence the infrastructure roadmap and lead and execute projects. The position focuses on architecting and building core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key-value stores, schema-less data stores, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management with hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, and systems for feature flags, A/B testing, and traffic capture/replay. A key aspect of the role is improving the observability and reliability of systems by enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure. The engineer will also define methodologies and metrics to measure performance, identify and fix bottlenecks, and improve the overall performance and scalability of applications. The role requires regularly delivering deadline-sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams.
Requirements
- 0-3 years of experience
- 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.
- Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
- BS+ in computer science or a related field
Nice To Haves
- Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
- 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
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
