Senior Software Engineer - Database

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on distributed systems and low-level programming languages like Rust and/or modern C/C++.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in asynchronous collaboration.
• Experience with on-call rotations and incident response tools and procedures.
• Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain highly available and performant distributed systems.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain infrastructure that supports Ditto’s peer-to-peer technology, focusing on scaling data synchronization.
• Design and maintain high-performance, consistent caches and proxies to bridge Big Peers and Small Peers in the network.
• Ensure data consistency and system performance by implementing correctness and load tests.
• Collaborate with the SRE team to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems in production environments.
• Write technical documentation, and contribute to system architecture designs.
• Drive performance tuning efforts to ensure systems meet the demands of large-scale, distributed environments.
• Participate in on-call rotations, partnering with the SRE team to manage production systems and meet uptime SLAs.