7 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $245k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and lead execution of a multi-year technical roadmap for KDE Storage services.
- Co-own, design, and scale a high-performance, data-intensive platform storage layer.
- Improve KDE Storage query speeds and solve high-visibility engineering problems.
- Establish platform-wide storage standards in collaboration with engineering, support, and sales teams.
- Collaborate with customer service, product, and engineering teams on network observability and intelligence features.
Requirements
- 7+ years of backend development experience using Go, C, or Rust.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and high-throughput data pipelines.
- Experience with time-series databases, especially storage layers, is a plus.
- Experience with object storage or distributed filesystems.
- Experience designing Hot/Warm/Cold tiered storage strategies and TTL-based data eviction at scale.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work independently in a remote-friendly culture.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement
- Company-paid health, vision, and dental premiums for employees and dependents
- Annual Health Reimbursement Account of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
- Paid family and medical leave
- Open paid time off, quarterly Wellness Day, and at least 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Kentik
Kentik builds a SaaS network observability and analytics platform used by enterprises and service providers to monitor performance, understand traffic, and detect threats such as DDoS attacks. The product ingests flow, device, cloud, and synthetic telemetry to deliver real-time insights and automation via APIs and integrations, with optional professional services. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, customers include Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom.