Staff Data Platform Software Engineer

Description:

As a Staff Data Platform Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to become a key member of the Cloud Platform Persistence group. The platform persistence group has teams that provide storage API for higher layer applications, build our Time Series capability and/or work to scale our application platforms. Depending on the nature of the data, the storage systems include relational database, non-relational database such as columnar database, time series database, or message queue system.

Our largest customers are always pushing the limits of the backend storage in terms of size of the data, speed of IO, as well as number of concurrent transactions. Performance, reliability, and scalability is always at the core of our work.

What you’ll do and need to know:

• You’ll work toward managing our explosive data growth and ensuring our systems remain available and highly responsive.
• Developing platform technologies at scale.
• Work with relational database developing on, troubleshooting, and optimizing performance.

To be successful:

• Having aptitude for learning new technologies quickly.
• Demonstrated success completing complex projects, on time.
• Experience with troubleshooting difficult production issues e.g., memory leaks, concurrency issues, locking issues, network problems, intermittent failures etc. across the stack.

Nice to have:

• Passionate database technologies
• Familiarity with Unix shell
• Knowledge of DevOps environment

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience
• Experience with core Java development
• Advanced-Expert level understanding of best practices for object-oriented and modularized software. Emphasis on Java
• Advanced-Expert level of backend platform development
• Knowledge and/or experience with relational databases: Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQLServer