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Toughbyte

Remote Senior Software Engineer

Toughbyte
Latvia · Full-time · Mid-Senior

Right now, the company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead technology development on the frontier of security, code context, and software delivery.


Tasks:

  • Design and develop systems for event retention, processing, and querying
  • Implement event retention best practices
  • Experiment in ways that accelerate prototyping and maximize resource utilization
  • Ensure event processing pipelines work quickly, reliably and predictably
  • Manage our data pipeline, including scheduling, dataflow programming, SQL, and data labeling
  • Orchestrate the operation of clusters of commodity machines
  • Review code, mentor other engineers, and support other teams that rely on the event store
  • Attract, recruit, and retain top engineering and scientific talent


Must-have skills:

  • Minimum 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Expertise with backend development in Java, Scala or Kotlin
  • Good SQL knowledge and understanding
  • Experience with cloud computing – AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Basic knowledge of IO and memory profiling on Linux/UNIX
  • Familiarity with service delivery in a Linux environment
  • Proven expertise and leadership as a world-class senior software engineer


Nice-to-have skills:

  • PhD or Master’s degree in computer science/engineering, mathematics, physics, or related field 
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering and data engineering experience
  • Proficient with distributed systems and the coordination of high-volume independent commodity machines into complete, functional systems to handle diverse workloads
  • Expertise with SQL and Postgres
  • Expertise in event pipeline development in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or Python
  • Experience with immutable data
  • Advanced understanding of optimization and profiling on Linux
  • Advanced working knowledge of information retrieval and search technologies 
  • Expertise with configuration and use of open-source search systems to query and understand data
  • Experience with the following technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins


Benefits:

  • A strong remote work culture that includes group activities and local gatherings
  • Competitive salary and equity packages
  • Unlimited vacation and sick leave


Key Skills

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sql scala java prototyping kubernetes terraform circleci kotlin docker linux cloud aws
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Posted
Jun 02, 2025
Type
Full-time
Level
Mid-Senior
Location
Riga
Company
Toughbyte

Industries

Technology Information Internet

Categories

Engineering Information Technology

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