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The (USA) Staff, Software Engineer joins the Cassandra Platform team to design, operate, and improve one of the world's largest distributed database environments. This role involves building automation for provisioning, scaling, upgrades, decommissions, and health monitoring of Cassandra clusters. The engineer will develop internal tools and self-service capabilities to reduce repetitive operational work while participating in on-call rotations to lead incident response and root cause analysis. Key responsibilities include improving system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across a large-scale distributed database footprint. Candidates must possess experience building backend or platform software using Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting. The role requires troubleshooting distributed systems in production and applying AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics, alert quality, and engineering productivity within a complex distributed database environment.
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 an on-call rotation to manage production system issues.
Lead incident response and perform root cause analysis for production systems.
Improve system reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across the distributed database footprint.
Apply AI-assisted tooling to improve diagnostics, alert quality, and engineering productivity.
What we're looking for
Obtain a Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or a related area and 4 years of experience.
Possess 6 years of experience in software engineering or a related area.
Experience building backend or platform software using Java, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting.
Experience operating and troubleshooting distributed systems in production environments.
Ability to identify manual processes and replace them with scalable automation.
Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response.
Experience collaborating across engineering, cloud, and reliability teams.
Master’s degree in a related field and 2 years of experience (preferred).