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The (USA) Staff, Software Engineer joins the Cassandra platform team to manage hundreds of production clusters supporting critical retail and eCommerce systems. This role involves leading automation strategies to reduce operational toil, driving architecture improvements across distributed database environments, and influencing reliability standards. You will design and build automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrades, decommissions, and health monitoring while developing internal tools and self-service capabilities. Key responsibilities include participating in on-call rotations, leading incident response, and evaluating AI-assisted tooling for diagnostics. The ideal candidate possesses experience with Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting to troubleshoot distributed systems. You will solve complex problems regarding system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across a large-scale distributed database footprint while mentoring other engineers and collaborating with cloud and platform teams.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design and build automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrading, and monitoring Cassandra clusters.
Develop internal tools and self-service capabilities to reduce repetitive operational work.
Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response and root cause analysis.
Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across large-scale distributed databases.
Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics and engineering productivity.
Lead automation strategy to reduce operational toil and improve platform efficiency.
Drive architecture improvements and influence reliability standards across distributed database environments.
What we're looking for
Must have a Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of experience.
Alternatively, must have 6 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Must have experience building backend or platform software using Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting.
Must have experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production environments.
Must have experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response.
Must have experience collaborating across engineering, cloud, and reliability teams.
Must have the ability to identify manual processes and replace them with scalable automation.
Master’s degree in a related field and 2 years of experience (preferred).
Python
Java
JavaScript
C++
Cloud-native Architecture
Microservices
Containers
CI/CD
Generative AI
ML Frameworks
API Design
Software Design Patterns
Observability
System Design
WCAG) 2.2 AA