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As a Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure, you will join the team to design, implement, and optimize components within distributed systems. Your daily responsibilities include delivering features, performing load and performance tests, and utilizing data plane platforms and distributed state tools for high-volume retrieval, storage, and processing. You will build fault-tolerant paths through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover while implementing recovery-oriented principles like circuit breakers and timeouts. The role involves proactive issue mitigation using telemetry, dashboards, and automated infrastructure as code for maintenance. To succeed, you must possess expertise in distributed systems, algorithm optimization, and operating systems. You will work with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle Cloud to solve complex problems regarding scalability, resiliency, and operability while ensuring advanced security controls like encryption and access management are strictly maintained.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Design, implement, and optimize components in distributed systems for scalability, resiliency, and operability.
Deliver features and perform load/performance tests using data plane platforms and distributed state tools.
Build fault-tolerant paths including redundancy, replication, automatic failover, retries, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Proactively detect and mitigate issues through testing, alarms, dashboards, telemetry, and incident response.
Develop automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
Implement advanced security controls such as encryption, access management, and remediation protocols.
Create and refine prototypes to validate systems and gather stakeholder feedback.
What we're looking for
Candidates must have 8 years of software development experience, or a relevant Bachelor's degree plus 4 years of experience, or a Master's degree plus 2 years of experience, or a Doctorate.
Demonstrated knowledge of distributed systems including designing and managing scalable, secure, and highly available software systems.
Proficiency in all phases of software engineering and development.
Ability to design, analyze, and optimize algorithms for efficiency and scalability.
Experience with operating systems, including installing, upgrading, and troubleshooting various environments.
2 years of professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle Cloud.
3 years of experience working in testing and automation at the system level.
2 years of experience working with delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.