Software Engineer - Platform

• Develop and enrich our platform by leveraging open source and cloud-native software
• Learn the internals of open source projects and fork/augment them to better fit our scalability, reliability, functional, and security needs (e.g. Presto, Airflow, Hive, Jupyter, etc)
• Leverage kubernetes to drive resource efficiency, auto scaling, standardized deployment, and consistency of monitoring
• Employ proper DevOps practices with a genuine concern for code quality assessment, implicit/automated testing, and frequent, no-downtime deployment
  

• You have a genuine passion for coding and absolutely love learning new technologies.  You don’t just want to blindly use platforms and libraries; instead you have a desire to tear them apart and figure out how they work inside.  You love scaling and optimizing and seeing just how far or how fast your projects can go.  You see all of the building blocks in the community as legos and want to use them to build innovative new solutions at a faster pace than ever
  

• 3+ years of software development
• The training to back your work: a masters degree, bachelor’s degree, or, as we recognize there isn’t one formula for success, equivalent work experience
• Intensive knowledge in either Java, Python, or Javascript.  This includes all aspects from development through to production (build tools, deployment tools, deployment methods, configuration strategies, etc)
• Computer science fundamentals - algorithms and data structures
• Personal Plusses - contribution to open source projects, active tech blogging, speaking engagements, pet projects
• Technical Plusses - knowledge of big data systems (e.g. Spark, Presto, HDFS), orchestration (e.g. Airflow), containerization (e.g. docker, kubernetes), databases/SQL. Knowledge of Golang is a plus
  

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