4 months ago
Mountain View, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$163k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable, performant, and secure platform building blocks.
- Influence the platform team roadmap and own the evolution of multiple platform areas.
- Partner within and across engineering teams to provide cross-cutting solutions.
- Consistently deliver deadline-sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams.
- Challenge the status quo and be responsible for continuous improvement of the platform.
- Regularly participate in peer code and engineering design reviews.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems.
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining products or platforms.
- B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
- Experience building and integrating with API-based platforms and a good understanding of REST and other RPC-based systems.
- Experience building and maintaining microservices in Python/Golang/Java/C++.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure.
- Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring.
- Desire to work at a startup pace with a high degree of ownership.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex engineering concepts concisely and clearly to product and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast.
- High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn.
- Willingness to learn and an openness to giving and receiving feedback.