Software Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or comparable professional experience.
• At least six years developing production software, including substantial experience delivering distributed systems or cloud services.
• Proficiency in Java or Go, including concurrent programming, debugging, and performance analysis.
• Solid understanding of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, networking, and storage fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of distributed-system behavior, including consistency, replication, retries, idempotency, partial failures, and recovery.
• Experience designing service APIs and evolving interfaces without disrupting existing consumers.
• Experience establishing automated unit, integration, and performance tests, supported by CI/CD practices.
• Experience operating production services, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and participation in on-call rotations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex engineering work, communicate architectural decisions, and collaborate across teams.
• Sound engineering judgment when using AI-assisted development tools, including independently verifying correctness, security, and maintainability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building messaging systems, distributed storage, event-processing platforms, or similar infrastructure services.
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Amazon SQS, Azure Service Bus, or OCI Queue.
• Experience with Paxos or Raft, replicated state machines, durable logs, checkpoints, and crash recovery.
• Understanding of ordering guarantees, producer deduplication, delivery acknowledgements, visibility timeouts, and dead-letter handling.
• Experience with partitioning, load balancing, backpressure, resource quotas, capacity planning, and online workload migration.
• Experience with gRPC, Protocol Buffers, metadata caching, and asynchronous control-plane workflows.
• Experience profiling JVM or Go applications and diagnosing Linux networking, CPU, memory, and storage bottlenecks.
• Familiarity with containers, infrastructure automation, Terraform, and staged deployment practices.
• Experience designing secure multi-tenant services, including authorization, encryption, tenant isolation, and operational safeguards.
• A record of influencing architecture across teams and improving engineering practices through mentoring, reviews, and clear technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of distributed messaging capabilities, including ordered delivery, deduplication, message lifecycle management, and workload isolation.
• Improve service performance, capacity utilization, availability, and recovery under failures.
• Design reliable APIs and durable workflows while maintaining compatibility across service components and deployments.
• Drive automated testing, failure injection, performance qualification, and safe production rollouts.
• Investigate complex production issues, participate in on-call operations, and deliver lasting reliability improvements.
• Partner with product management and engineering teams to evaluate tradeoffs and establish technical direction; mentor engineers through design and code reviews.
• Design software solutions, analyze requirements, and share results with management upon completion.
• Guide execution across software development lifecycle phases and coach engineers to improve development practices.
• Develop and guide software features and enhancements, lead design specifications, ensure accessibility, and document software design and code.
• Lead code reviews and conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix complex software issues.
• Implement functional and non-functional testing, quality assurance, error logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Profile and optimize performance, build scalable solutions, and anticipate and resolve potential issues.
• Troubleshoot complex API functionality and integration issues and implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Contribute to software, systems, and services design; recommend project or design scope; and provide technical guidance on architecture.
• Contribute to architectural reviews, promote adherence to architectural standards, and collaborate with stakeholders to align work with architecture.
• Implement performance optimization and scalability strategies and, when needed, research and evaluate technology for architectural changes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on customer issues, provide advanced technical support when needed, advocate for customer interests, and suggest product enhancements based on feedback.
• Develop customer issue and defect handling and training processes, and investigate complex maintenance issues to agree on short- and long-term solutions.
• Follow development practices and coding standards, participate in peer reviews, provide technical leadership, and implement secure coding practices.
• Perform periodic system maintenance and testing, including upgrades or vulnerability patching, and improve automation, testing, debugging, availability, health, support, and reliability.
• Coordinate project tasks, monitor timelines and deliverables, prioritize work across projects, and adjust plans when resources or timelines change.
• Collaborate across the organization and use understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and customers to ensure solutions meet their needs; seek and respect diverse perspectives.
• Analyze information to address issues, escalate critical or unresolved problems with assessments and proposed solutions, and document problem-solving strategies.
• Pursue learning and feedback, stay current with industry practices, and coach and mentor junior team members.
• Recommend and implement process improvements, solicit feedback on approaches, and evaluate their impact.
• Participate in candidate interviews, assess candidates, and provide hiring recommendations.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Life insurance and AD&D.
• Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children.
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits.
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match.
• Flexible or accrued vacation, depending on eligibility and position classification.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours upon hire, refreshed each calendar year, with unused balance carrying over up to a 112-hour cap.
• Paid parental leave.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Financial planning and group legal benefits.
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance benefits.
• The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.