Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Storage Services Engineering)

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Requirements:

• 5+ years of development experience.
• Hands-on coding and debugging in Python, Go, or JVM-based languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala).
• Experience with highly available, fault-tolerant backend systems and cloud storage services.
• Familiarity with AWS or other cloud providers (Azure, GCP).
• Experience with data privacy engineering services is a plus.
• Understanding of CS fundamentals (Distributed Systems, Database Systems, Operating Systems).
• Experience in database administration or DevOps for databases is a plus.
• Knowledge of OLAP systems (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) and table formats (Apache Iceberg, HUDI, Delta Lake) is a plus.
• Experience in Database, SRE, or Infrastructure teams, or operating a distributed data storage system (MySQL, Kafka, Cassandra).
• Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Kubernetes, Docker, gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Celery/RabbitMQ, and NGINX.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and site reliability engineering teams.
• Lead and mentor engineers to define and execute a roadmap aligned with stakeholder needs.
• Design, build, and maintain highly durable and consistent cloud-based storage solutions.
• Design and manage infrastructure platforms for operating database systems at scale.
• Create structured storage solutions focused on privacy.
• Provide guidance on database design and architecture.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to resolve production issues.