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DataStaxan IBM company has roots in several open source projects such as Apache Cassandra Open Search Apache Pulsar and Langflow. Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We are now working towards a hosted version of Open Search so that our customers have comprehensive solutions to build GenAI applications to meet their transactional data and hybrid text search needs. We're looking for a software engineer to join our Open Search Cloud Platform Engineering team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage the full lifecycle of their Open Search instances.
● Design develop and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for Open Search as a Service across all public clouds.
● Design develop and maintain software microservices including k8s operators primarily for the full lifecycle management of open search instances – both for single tenant and multi tenant offerings.
● Participate in on-call activities acting as a secondary on-call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues.
● Define and implement the best practices that make Open Search capabilities boring to our customers – high uptime high throughput low latency at optimal cost.
● Enjoys a highly diverse collaborative and cross-functional environment
● Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in cloud native space
● Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment.
● 4 + years of relevant experience
● Solid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure -- at least one of Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
● Expertise in Kubernetes including configuration usage as an application platform maintenance scaling networking and troubleshooting.
● Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress security networking object storage and disk storage CI/CD Blue/Green deployments
● 3-5+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go)
● Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes
● Experience with Open Search or Elastic Search or Solr
● Contribution to one or more open source Java and JVM based projects