5 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design and develop a high-performance data platform capable of handling large volumes of data in real time
- Build product features from research and implementation through maintenance
- Improve the performance and reliability of new and existing features
- Lead initiatives with significant potential impact on Formal
- Design scalable services as the company processes increasing traffic
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant software development experience building data-intensive software platforms
- Strong knowledge of Golang and its ecosystem
- Experience with streaming data processing frameworks such as Apache Kafka and Google Pub/Sub
- Experience debugging and optimizing complex production systems
- Experience working in databases, operating systems, networking, or other systems-level environments
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, ECS, or Kubernetes
- Experience with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform
- Strong code simplicity and performance orientation
- Strong production debugging and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work well within a team
- Preferred: experience in a fast, high-growth startup environment
- Preferred: experience using Temporal and Render
- Preferred: extensive knowledge of datastore protocols including Postgres, S3, and Kafka
- Preferred: familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure or GCP
Benefits
- 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for U.S.-based full-time employees
- Partial coverage for dependents
- Flexible PTO
Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftApache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLRenderRustSnowflakeTerraform
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Formal
Formal builds a data privilege access management platform that automates fine-grained access control and monitoring across the modern data stack for engineering-focused security teams. It sells its software as a cloud-based subscription. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by investors including Thrive Capital and Y Combinator.