Senior Software Engineer, Online Storage

Zip • Toronto, ON

58d

About The Position

Zip's products are built on top of Ent and TAO, our proprietary database access layer inspired by Facebook's Ent and TAO. As a member of the Infra team, you will primarily work on Ent, TAO, and the underlying database. You will collaborate with product engineering teams to design new features for Ent and TAO that better support their use cases. Additionally, you will enhance database scalability, reliability, and performance to support the company's growth.

Requirements

• Experience: Over 5 years of software engineering experience, particularly in cloud infrastructure.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding, such as Physics or Mathematics.
• Technical Skills: Proven experience in designing and implementing data access layers, such as ORM, Ent, and TAO.
• Adaptability: Demonstrated ability and eagerness to quickly learn new frameworks, architectural patterns, and programming languages as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on AWS-managed databases.
• Prior experience designing and implementing distributed systems such as databases or storage solutions.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Zip’s data access layer for sharded and distributed databases, to support Zip’s global expansion.
• Improve database scalability, reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Support and influence the technical designs of Zip’s products.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level