about 4 hours ago
San Mateo, CA, USA
Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural transition to a next-generation, multitenant caching service.
- Drive systemic optimizations to mitigate head-of-line blocking and manage hot keys.
- Design and build frameworks for automating development and monitoring of services.
- Champion engineering best practices through design reviews and performance benchmarking.
- Mentor and empower engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- A BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Deep domain knowledge in building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience running Active/Active distributed systems on container orchestrators.
- Strong programming experience in Go and C++.
- Proven success in resolving massive-scale bottlenecks in distributed systems.
- Hands-on experience with modern telemetry and observability stacks.
- Bonus: Contributions to major open-source caching projects.
- Bonus: Experience extending cache functionality or tuning memory allocators.
- Bonus: Experience with caching proxies and designing multi-tiered caching architectures.
Tech Stack
AmbassadorC++GoGrafanaKibanaKubernetesPrometheusRedis
Categories
BackendData EngineeringDevOps