A computer science degree or commensurate experience.
Solid understanding of distributed systems, scalability, RESTful patterns, and multithreading concepts; knowledge of software development best practices and a willingness to learn more.
Proficiency building and scaling resilient, low-latency services in production using Go, Python, Java, C++ or C#.
Proven track record of translating business requirements to technical requirements, leading projects and delivery on schedule.
Passion for customer success and guide decisions by always keeping the end-user in mind.
Communicate and collaborate effectively across functions and levels throughout the company.
Willingness to take on ownership to fix issues as you find them, without waiting to be assigned.
Responsibilities:
Develop Go-based microservices to support new and existing features which help detect cyber attacks, as well as RESTful APIs to support customer-focused workflows.
Work on and enrich backend microservices – From researching areas of concern to implementing the final solution.
Take end-to-end ownership of technical initiatives, both individually, and as part of a team, for delivery of projects of increasing complexity.
Work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers across product groups to understand, design, and implement solutions.
Mentor junior engineers on the team via pair programming, code reviews, and one-on-one knowledge sharing.
Challenge the status quo by continuously re-evaluating our features, infrastructure, and services for areas where we can improve architecture, user experience, performance, latency, or stability.
Relentlessly pursue quality by following engineering best practices including: Appropriate testing paradigms, effective peer code reviews, logging, monitoring, and resilient architecture patterns.
Utilize Kafka for event-driven workflows, Redis for distributed caching, and Cassandra, ElasticSearch, or PostgreSQL for data storage.
Provide monitoring and operational & customer support for production services owned by our team.
Be given the autonomy to own your work in a high trust environment.