Staff Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Join as one of the technical leaders of our high-growth Cloud Engineering Team. Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity.
• Partner with the product management leadership team to define and execute the product strategy.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability, and security of the cloud system. Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Actively seek out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ( "technical debt "), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster.
• Confidently ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
• Shepherd the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.

 
Required Skills:

• 6+ years of industry experience working with backend and low-latency big data tech stacks.
• Strong Python experience.
• Experience with service-oriented architecture, event-driven systems, REST API, and unit testing.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL data systems (e.g. Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka).
• Experience with the full SDLC on a major public cloud service provider (AWS and GCP preferred).
• Able to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of system resources.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Able to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility. Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Adaptability, resilience, and being able to thrive in ambiguity