Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

As a Senior Software Engineer at Crux every day is exciting. You will work with really smart people and wear many different hats. You must be motivated to 'figure it out' and have the internal drive to succeed. You will have a chance to be associated with innovating and launching products working on new projects and being a part of something that makes a real difference to our customers. You will be responsible for building systems using cutting-edge technology that supports the ingestion and processing of large-scale data on the Crux platform. Data is the lifeblood at Crux and all customer-facing services revolve around the scalability and performance of the platform to deliver terabytes of data. This is a great opportunity for an experienced engineer to take a significant role in the development of data-driven applications that form the foundation of a truly innovative product.

If this piques your interest and you’re ready to break out of the monotony of traditional backend services let’s talk.  You will embark on a new multidisciplinary challenge involving large-scale microservices-based systems configuration-driven batch and real-time data pipelines a plethora of SQL and NoSQL datastores and everything in between. This is an opportunity to deliver a world-changing product that solves real problems.

Responsibilities:

·        Contribute to the design and development of our data workflow management platform

·        Develop new distributed systems from scratch

·        Manage and scale Identity and Access Management at Crux

·        Refine processes for normalization and performance-tuning analytics

·        Mentor fellow teammates on design patterns and best practices

·        Own production SLOs for applications and services

About you:

·        You bring experience in the implementation of highly scalable microservices-based systems using modern Java/JVM technologies

·        You have worked with scalable distributed systems to be performant monitored and SLA driven.

·        Have prior experience with domain driven design

·        Experience in designing and implementing data isolation and access management

·        You love working on high-performing teams collaborating with team members and improving our ability to delight our clients

·        Taking ownership to deliver a high-quality solution is natural for you

·        You are passionate about solving challenging technical problems and you find learning about data fascinating

·        You thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to join a small company that is growing rapidly

·        You want your work to be tangible and valued across all levels of the company

·        You are comfortable with ambiguity

Qualifications:

·        5 to 7+ years of software development experience in a production environment

·        Able to work independently with minimal guidance

·        Experience working in a cloud-based environment such as GCP or AWS

·        Experience with stream/real-time processing frameworks eg. Kafka Spark Flink Flume

·        Experience with a variety of RESTful and/or gRPC API architectures

·        RDBMS SQL and NOSQL structured and unstructured data

·        Familiarity with container-orchestration technologies eg. Kubernetes and autoscaling is highly desirable

·        Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

·        Ability to exercise judgment to make sound decisions

·        Excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as a sense of humor

·        BS degree or higher in a technical discipline

$170000 - $190000 a year