Senior Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Design and implement features and enhance performance across Orchestration services, including the scheduler, execution harness, and results processing.

• Develop, maintain, test, and optimize high-quality code while focusing on critical performance paths.

• Create technical designs, solicit feedback, and articulate trade-offs effectively.

• Engage in reviewing technical designs and pull requests.

• Enhance test coverage and minimize technical debt through refactoring efforts.

• Troubleshoot and debug production issues, which includes conducting post-mortems and formulating mitigation strategies.

• Decompose features into tasks, execute project plans, and contribute to sprint and feature planning activities.

• Collaborate with product managers, quality engineers, customer support, and colleagues.

• Participate in the on-call rotation periodically and maintain awareness of security protocols.

• Leverage AI tools to accelerate development and create or review SDLC artifacts.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in the software industry, encompassing the design and development of backend services and reusable components from scratch.

• Familiarity with distributed systems and cloud computing principles.

• Proficient in writing well-structured, efficient, and thoroughly tested code.

• Capable of independently leading feature-level software and design initiatives while explaining design trade-offs.

• Skilled in identifying design flaws and suggesting improvements.

• Experience in code reviews, design, troubleshooting, and testing processes.

• Proficient in a modern backend or systems programming language such as Python, Java, C++, or C#.

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure as well as Docker/Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of continuous integration tools like BuildKite.

• Familiarity with Datadog or Grafana is advantageous.

• Comfortable using AI code assistants, coding agents, and conversational AI for SDLC artifacts.

• Experience in ETL/ELT and/or cloud-based data platforms is a plus.

• Familiarity with schedulers, workflow orchestration, job queues, or distributed task execution systems is a bonus.

• Experience with GraphQL APIs and high-throughput, multi-tenant data services is beneficial.

• Understanding of analytics engineering and the dbt ecosystem is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-covered medical insurance.

• Generous paid time off, including vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation based on role and location, along with paid sick leave, inclusive parental leave, holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Company-hosted virtual happy hours, complimentary food, and enjoyable team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone allowance.

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for covered employees and their dependents.