Senior Engineer, Backend​/Cloud – Policy

Responsibilities

• 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 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 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.

• 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.