Software Engineer – DBaaS Serverless

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Astra DB is a wildly successful cloud-native database as a service (DBaaS) powered by Apache Cassandra. We’re looking for a software engineer to join our Database Cloud Platform Engineering team. Our team owns the foundational infrastructure and services that enable customers to launch and manage the full lifecycle of their Astra DB instances.

• Design, develop, and maintain a wide variety of software and cloud infrastructure for Data Stax’s Astra Database as a Service (DBaaS) across all public clouds.
• Design, develop, and maintain software microservices including k8s operators, primarily for the full lifecycle of database from creation, ongoing operation to termination
• Participate in on-call activities, acting as a secondary on-call support person for Production Engineering teams who require assistance with complex production issues.
• Define and implement the best practices that make databases boring to our customers high uptime, high throughput, low latency at optimal cost.
• Enjoys a highly diverse, collaborative, and cross-functional environment Stays abreast of modern technologies and practices especially in cloud native space Fosters long-term team success and contributes to a healthy work environment

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

• Solid experience with / proficiency with public cloud infrastructure — at least one of Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, including configuration, usage as an application platform, maintenance, scaling, networking and troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud network concepts such as ingress, security, networking, object storage and disk storage.
• 5-8+ years of development experience with programming languages such as Go/Python/Java (preferably Go) Experience building highly scalable distributed systems on Kubernetes Experience with building Kubernetes Operators would be an asset

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