Staff Software Engineer Backend Persistence

Job Description

Team:

As a Staff Data Platform Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to become a key member of the Cloud Platform Persistence group. The platform persistence group has teams that provide storage API for higher layer applications, build capabilities and/or work to scale our application platforms.

Our largest customers are always pushing the limits of the backend storage in terms of size of the data, speed of IO, as well as number of concurrent transactions. Performance, reliability, and scalability is always at the core of our work.

What you’ll do and need to know:

• You will work toward managing explosive data growth and ensure our systems remain available and highly responsive.
• Work with relational database developing on, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineers in driving the performance and operational features to completion.
• Demonstrated successful completion of complex projects.
• Experience in Core Java development, Object oriented and modularized software.
• Experience in handling large volumes of data on relational database.

To be successful:

• Experience with troubleshooting difficult production issues e.g., memory leaks, concurrency issues, locking issues, network problems, intermittent failures etc. across the stack.
• Experience navigating legacy code.
• Having aptitude for learning new technologies quickly.
• Capability to complete projects on time.

Qualifications:

• 6+ years of software development experience.
• Experience with core Java development.
• Experience with Golang.
• Good working experience with backend platform development.
• Knowledge and/or experience with relational databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, MySQL.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with Unix shell.
• Good understanding of database technologies and internals.
• Knowledge of DevOps environment.
• Experience with Ruby.