Senior Backend & Cloud Engineer – Go & AWS

• Build and evolve cloud-based systems to flawlessly manage and distribute configuration information to a fleet of millions of endpoints, collaborating with other cloud, front-end, and endpoint developers

• Brainstorm, design, and build collaboratively with members across multiple teams

• Build elegant and performant solutions for complex technical problems in Go

• Read and critique code in the multiple programming languages in use in our environment (including Go, Python, Unix shell, Typescript, C++, among others), and provide technical guidance and feedback to team members

• Focus on continual learning, raising the bar for both yourself and your teammates

• Leverage our understanding of engineering best practices, including topics like appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, and resilient architecture patterns, to ensure that our code is clean

• Be an energetic ‘self-starter’ with the ability to take ownership and be accountable for deliverables, both individually and when leading a team

• Deliver and accept feedback with grace and courtesy

• Collaborate on determining root causes of production outages and adding quality improvements to prevent outages in the future

Requirements

• Must be eligible for CJIS clearance (requires U.S. citizenship or Green Card/permanent resident status)
• A computer science background or equivalent experience (programming styles, data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, etc.)
• 5+ years of experience building and scaling back-end systems in production
• Team player skills – we embrace collaboration
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and scalability challenges
• Experience with Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka, Elastic Search, and/or similar technologies
• Prior experience with cloud services, such as AWS or Azure, particularly compute and storage offerings
• Experience developing and deploying into Linux containers
• Ability to travel (primarily to the United States) 1-3x per year
• Both a sense of humor and a sense of humility

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Hard Skills

• Go
• Python
• Unix shell
• Typescript
• C++
• distributed systems
• scalability
• cloud-based systems
• back-end systems
• Linux containers

Soft Skills

• team player
• collaboration
• self-starter
• ownership
• accountability
• feedback
• humor
• humility
• communication
• problem-solving

Certifications & Qualifications

• CJIS clearance