Software Engineer - Server/Backend

Niantic’s mission is to use emerging technology to enrich our experiences as human beings in the physical world. We build products that inspire movement, exploration, and face-to-face social interaction. 

Niantic is seeking a Software Engineer - Server to build the server infrastructure that supports projects such as Pokémon GO, Pikmin Bloom and Ingress. You will work on real-time indexing, querying and aggregation problems at massive scales of hundreds of millions of events per day. These technical challenges pertain to a single, coherent world-wide instance shared by millions of users.

We seek engineers with strong technical background, great execution, and self-starter mentality. The ideal candidate loves to jump into the unknown, clarify ambiguities, quickly learn from failures, and break down vague ideas into concrete tasks. 

• Build and design reliable, high-throughput, low latency and scalable server and networking systems that support Niantic’s developers and products. 
• Build key components of the platform that developers can incorporate to create rich experiences in their games.
• Perform load testing, participate in code reviews, write unit tests, and conduct troubleshooting to ensure uptime for live systems.
• Collaborate with other specialists, product managers, and other departments to ensure code meets internal standards.

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 2+ years of experience building reliable scalable platforms, 5+ years for senior level candidates. 
• Proficiency in one of the following languages: Java, Go or C++ with working knowledge of Python, SQL.
• Experience building networked and distributed systems. 
• Experience building concurrent and multi-threaded services. 
• Delivered solutions to production environments, and provided tools to monitor, support and mitigate any issues.

• Experience with deployment on hosting providers, such as Google Cloud, Azure or AWS.
• Experience with building ETL pipelines or  crafting data-related ingestion APIs.
• Familiarity with one or more open source projects, such as Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch and Envoy. 
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (such as Terraform)
• Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading projects.