Golang Distributed Systems Jobs Paying 100,000 USD a Year

Job Description

Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.

Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.

As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.

You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.

We are also looking for: Strong communication skills. Experience with performance and load testing.

You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.

Responsibilities * Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project * Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load * Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues * Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments * Guide protocol design decisions

Requirements * 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++ * 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role * Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing * Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems * Experience with AWS/GCP * Comfortable operating in dynamic environments

Bonus Points * Background in networking or distributed systems * Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint * Proficiency in protocol-level blockchain development * Contribution to open source software * Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related. * Experience in small start­up environments helping large enterprises. * Experience with a distributed team

About Swish

Launched in February 2013, Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.

We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyone’s choice to live and work the way they prefer.

Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.

We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.

Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.

Join the future of work today.

Job Description

Here at BitMED we appreciate transparency and creativity. So, let’s try something new. We would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about this role the same way we would get to know you. An application!

We’ll go first…

Why is this position crucial to BitMED?

Our lean team is ready to grow! We are rapidly onboarding 22M members to our platform and that number is growing every day. Our Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for defining and implementing our software standards as they integrate between frontend, backend, data storage, infrastructure and other core system components. By joining our small team, they will be an integral contributor in developing our engineering culture. This person will be a key enabler for lean integration, faster innovation, rapid development, streamlined communication and improved collaboration.

Why does this person want to work at BitMED?

They are excited about bringing blockchain technology to the healthcare community at scale. Joining BitMED is a strategic and advantageous career move for them as they will play a crucial role as a contributor to bringing a global, no-cost healthcare solution to market. They visualize the impact they’ll have in this role and are prepared to offer their expertise towards building a successful new platform that will change the way the world views healthcare.

What will this person do on a day-to-day basis?

The Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing software for a variety of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing systems (e.g. blockchain). They will design, implement, and debug core components of internal distributed computing services. They will research and implement key technologies (e.g. blockchain), architectures, and standards. They will work with other engineering teams to ensure that services meet scalability, availability, security, and performance goals.

What is this person expected to accomplish within their first 90 days?

This person will assess the status of our current system software and build upon them. They will work with various members of the engineering team to define and implement API standards. During their first 90 days, our Systems Software Engineer will design and implement Protocol APIs for BitMED’s core services and work with various internal and external technical teams on the adoption. By the end of their first 90 days, we expect this person to draft the Protocol API documentation geared towards open-sourcing the API.

What qualities should this person have?

BitMED is looking for a person with the willingness to learn and the ability to contribute right off the bat. They can balance timeliness and business priorities with technical feasibility. They are adamant about solving problems and are a reliable resource for insight and assessment of technical issues. They are able to speak openly and humbly about their failures and mistakes, clearly articulating what happened and how it was addressed. They are passionate about learning, executing and leading by example. They are an open source enthusiast and a best in class developer with a desire to gain knowledge in an emerging market. They are able to think through and anticipate how hackers and others may attempt to subvert or misuse applications.

What experience should this person have?

• 5+ years of overall developer experience
• 2+ years measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance
• 2+ years developing distributed applications and API integration
• 2+ years developing applications using cloud-based platforms and microservices
• Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
• Knowledge of concurrency control, data structures, algorithms, distributed system architectures and networking

What technical skills MUST this person have?

• 1+ years of experience with blockchain security technologies and cryptography knowledge
• Strong systems programming skills
• Experience with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance
• Familiarity with distributed storage systems (HDFS, Amazon S3)
• Fluency in Go (golang) C/C++, Python, shell scripting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Hands-on developer-level understanding of blockchain technologies including smart contracts, blockchain applications or proof-of-concepts (POCs) using Hyperledger, Ethereum Solidity or other proprietary languages and APIs
• Proven ability to translate requirements from architects and product managers into functional code.
• Knowledge of database technologies including SQL/NoSQL

What skills would we like this person to have?

• Strong passion for technology and applying it to business solutions
• Working understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, and financial software
• Experience running a large-scale production system

Your turn!

Job Description

Fastly helps the world’s most popular digital businesses keep pace with their customer expectations by delivering fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Businesses trust Fastly to accelerate the pace of technical innovation, mitigate evolving threats, and scale on demand. Founded in 2011, Fastly powers online destinations including Airbnb, GitHub, Alaska Airlines, Pinterest, Vimeo, The Guardian, The New York Times and Ticketmaster.

The worldwide cloud services market is projected to grow rapidly to $236 billion in 2020, according to Forrester, Inc. As more and more businesses move operations to the cloud, Fastly is well positioned to continue increasing CDN, cloud networking and cloud security market share with edge cloud services that reach beyond content delivery.

We’re building a better Internet. Come join us.

Distributed Systems - TLS / API Engineer

We’re looking for talented software engineers with experience in building resilient and distributed systems to join our team. This role is responsible for building, enhancing and maintaining the platform to deliver our core CDN configurations as well as our future Edge Cloud products. We have local offices in San Francisco, Portland and other locations. Remote workers are also encouraged to apply. Time zones with some overlap to North American time zones are preferred.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the systems for managing DNS and TLS technology to minimize latency for delivering Fastly's services.
• Implement systems to allow Fastly's customers to control their own TLS and DNS configurations for how their requester traffic reaches Fastly.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of Fastly's latency-informed, topologically-aware DNS system.
• Support internal operational, analytical and customer-facing teams that depend on the DNS and TLS tooling.
• Build internet-scale, fault tolerant, well-instrumented services that enable Fastly's authoritative DNS services and TLS termination capabilities.

What We're Looking For

We value a variety of voices, so this is not a laundry list. You’ll be a good candidate if you have experience and/or interest in SOME of these:

• Maintaining and developing large-scale and/or global production systems
• Experience building APIs to handle complex or sensitive data with Go (or other languages) in an interdependent and heterogeneous environment.
• Experience with network data and networking data structures.
• Operational networking experience (e.g. DNS, routing protocols, packet diagnosis and latency analysis)
• Writing code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise
• Expertise in designing, analyzing, profiling, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Experience with online testing, integration testing, database and system profiling.
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
• Understanding of authoritative DNS services, especially in an anycast environment.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed team: Previous remote work preferred.

Why Fastly?

• We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customershave a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
• We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
• We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
• We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
• We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit please apply!

Job Description

On the Nomad team, we develop tools for service deployment and batch job scheduling. Our customers place a high level of trust in us, relying on our tools to operate their own infrastructure and software effectively, and so we care deeply about reliability and performance.

This particular position is unique in that in addition to general Nomad backend engineering duties, this person will be the sole internal owner of the Nomad integration for Spark. We anticipate that work taking approximately 15-20% of this person’s time, and the rest of the time will be spent working on the overall Nomad roadmap along with the rest of the Nomad team. While we strive to hire at a variety of experience levels, this particular opening is not well-suited for recent graduates due to the level of independent ownership we expect for the integration for Spark. You will have the support of a Product and Engineering Manager in prioritizing and delivering work for the integration, but minimal fine-grained oversight from other Nomad Engineers. You will, however, benefit from direct interactions with users of the tool! This is an excellent technical leadership opportunity for someone with the capacity to operate well at this level of independence.

At HashiCorp, we value top-notch collaboration and communication skills, both among internal teams and in how we interact with our users. We take care to balance and be responsive to the needs of our open source community as well as our enterprise level customers.

Engineering at HashiCorp is largely a remote team. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.

In your cover letter, please describe why you're interested in working at HashiCorp, and what draws you to this role in particular! Since this is a unique role on the team, we require a cover letter for your application to be considered complete.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Be the sole internal owner of the Nomad integration for Spark
• Program in Golang for general Nomad work, learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills
• Program in Scala for integration with Spark work, as an independent Scala expert
• Work on next-generation distributed systems for infrastructure management
• Develop novel algorithms within the context of our open source tools
• Build and architect systems for managing extremely large-scale global fleets of resources
• Interface directly with internal teams, users and HashiCorp customers, and represent HashiCorp well to the large Nomad community
• Own the full lifecycle of feature development from design through testing and release

You may be a good fit for our team if:

• You are fluent in Scala or a similar language (Java skills with an understanding of functional programming concepts is a workable substitute)
• You are interested in learning Golang if you aren’t already well-versed
• You have past experience working with large batch data workloads, and can empathize with the problems that Spark solves for its users
• You’re familiar with systems engineering, with networking and operating systems, and are comfortable with low-level programming
• You have prior experience working in high performance or distributed systems; while we strive to hire at a variety of experience levels, this particular opening is not well-suited for recent graduates
• You can knowledgeably discuss tradeoffs in distributed systems, such as those made for debugging and performance
• You're familiar with the pieces of typical modern infrastructure: secret storage, service discovery, etc
• You’re able to reason about performance, security, and user interactions in complex systems

At HashiCorp, we are committed to hiring and cultivating a diverse team. If you are on the fence about whether you meet our requirements, please apply anyway!

Job Description

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer to join our cross-functional team responsible for TUNE’s core Performance Partnership Marketing Platform.

As a well-established engineering group at TUNE, the Management and Measurement team builds and maintains the mission critical systems which handle all global, real-time event measurement and business rules enforcement for our customers.

Our enterprise handles tens of billions of events per month. The high-volume, high-velocity, high-throughput systems we build and manage provide interesting challenges for motivated engineers, and we're looking for the right person to help us continue evolving and improving our systems for higher scale.

You will work remotely, collaborating with product managers and fellow engineers to design and deliver solutions from start to finish, in an Agile environment. In addition to new feature development, the team is also responsible for operations, performance, security, and scalability.

Our engineers have the opportunity to deliver features that delight our customers as well as define standards and best practices for how we build software at TUNE. The ideal candidate has a history of working on large, distributed systems that deliver predictable performance worldwide, scaling to meet dynamic load demands.

Have an interesting project on Github? We'd love to see it.

You’ll be responsible for…

• Designing, building, and supporting TUNE’s high-volume, low-latency Performance Partnership Marketing Platform.
• Taking ownership of the quality of our software, advancing our technology stack, upholding best practices, and optimizing our processes.
• Solving interesting concurrency and distributed programming problems.
• Writing performant code in a high-availability, distributed environment.
• Analyzing and optimizing code with an eye towards scalability and robustness.
• Articulating possible solutions and their trade-offs.
• Ensuring high software quality and security via automated testing.
• Using your expertise to shape the roadmap for our team, our high-performance computing architecture, and the product.

What you’ll need…

• Computer Science or relevant math/science academic background (or truly great experience).
• Industry proven professional software engineering experience (over 5 years) with a focus on parallel processing, distributing systems, and large datasets.
• Expertise working with Golang. Experience with C/C++ is highly desired.
• Ability to actively contribute to tuning and optimizing software and systems implementations.
• Experience building scalable solutions with cloud technologies such as AWS, and container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Fluency with Git and version control concepts.
• Comfortable programming in a Linux/Unix environment.
• Hands-on, language agnostic, knowledge of important programming concepts, including memory management, performance tradeoffs, dependency management, and automated testing.
• Ability to work within a team to drive a project to completion using strong written communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to deliver high-quality features to production, operating independently when needed.
• Ability to make pragmatic decisions quickly and support consensus within a project team.

TUNE makes technology that powers successful performance-based marketing partnerships across mobile and web. Headquartered in Seattle with hundreds of employees worldwide, TUNE is trusted by innovative affiliate marketers, the largest mobile advertising platforms, and iconic brands across the globe. For more information visit: www.tune.com.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on basis of disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other legally protected status.

Job Description

Are you passionate about building high performant products or using cutting edge technologies? Are you interested in defining our products, working closely with Product Management, in a fast-paced Agile environment? Are you looking to be impactful and contribute to engineering initiatives to achieve product goals with excellence? StackRox has an opportunity for you where you can contribute your skills, expertise, ingenuity and passion to help us succeed in our mission!

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for a software engineer who is skilled in building large scale distributed software systems that are highly performant while reducing the cost of deployment in cloud infrastructures. The ideal candidate cares deeply about performance, resource footprint, elegant coding with a great understanding of data structures and algorithms for enterprise-grade products, and is a fearless experimenter with a willingness to try new things. You'll fit right in if you like solving challenging problems by architecting elegant solutions, designing algorithms and writing code.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 1+ years of experience in software engineering, algorithm design and systems development
• Experience developing in Golang, C/C++, Java, or Python, with a language agnostic attitude toward development
• Strong ability to define problems, formulate solutions, effectively collaborate and communicate, plan and execute
• Ability to work boldly with a sense of urgency: embrace mistakes, learn from them, and help drive the team toward success

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes, and Linux containerization technology
• Experience with private and public cloud design considerations in the areas of virtualization, distributed systems, load balancing and networking, large scale data storage, and/or security
• Experience with distributed system orchestrators, scalable messaging systems, and large throughput data processing systems
• Experience with low level Linux containerization subsystems (cgroups, namespaces), other containerization/virtualization systems, or related subsystems like scheduling or networking
• Expertise with a broad range of data structures, algorithms, and software design, with strong debugging skills

ABOUT US

StackRox helps enterprises secure their cloud-native applications at scale from container build and deployment through runtime. Founded in 2014 by Sameer Bhalotra (former White House senior director for cybersecurity) and Ali Golshan (former co-founder and CTO of Cyphort), StackRox has assembled a team of experts in security, infrastructure, and machine learning. StackRox enables security teams to centralize container deployment governance, visualize the container attack surface, expose malicious activity, and stop attacker activity. It combines a new security architecture, machine learning, and protective actions to disrupt attacks in real time and limit their impact. Partnered with Docker, Amazon, Google, IBM and Red Hat, StackRox is the choice of both Global 2000 and emerging cloud-native enterprise companies.

Job Description

Clearmatics is a protocol engineering company. We are building a new financial market architecture that is more open, fair, and resilient than the legacy systems that are in use today. We develop protocols and software that create new markets for risk and more efficient infrastructure for trading, backed by a robust and scalable blockchain network, and secured with modern cryptographic techniques and economic mechanism design.

Clearmatics is based in London but operates on a 'remote first' model. We welcome candidates from all over the world. We have close ties to the Open Source and Ethereum communities, with Vitalik Buterin as an adviser.

The Engineering team at Clearmatics is responsible for developing our blockchain software at Layer 1 and Layer 2. At the core of our stack is the Autonity client, the node software that powers our blockchain network. It is based on Ethereum (go-ethereum) and is secured by Tendermint Proof-of-Stake consensus. Our decentralised platforms are built on smart contracts and decentralised applications, and are supported by backend services in Go.

We're looking to hire a Core Developer to expand our Layer 1 Engineering team.

ABOUT YOU

You're a systems programmer with good knowledge of Layer 1 protocols, and a passion for blockchain and decentralisation. You enjoy working to a high standard and writing code that is clean, performant, and maintainable. You appreciate the importance of careful design choices and can anticipate the impact of code changes on wider system behaviour. You can demonstrate a strong interest in blockchain and may even have open source contributions that you can highlight. You express yourself clearly in writing and in discussions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be involved at all stages of the development lifecycle for the Autonity protocol and its blockchain node client (a fork of go-ethereum). These include: - Implementing new protocol features in Go and Solidity - Developing new distributed systems tests and frameworks - Contributing to protocol and design specifications - Working with members of the community to resolve issues - Your work will ensure that Autonity client is correct, reliable, performant, and secure. This will enable Autonity to serve as the foundational layer for a new ecosystem of decentralised markets.

REQUIREMENTS

• At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong programming skills in a low-level language like Go, Rust, or C++ (ideally 2+ years with Go)
• Experience with network, concurrent, and distributed programming/debugging on Linux systems
• Good knowledge of Ethereum protocols, BFT and dPoS consensus, P2P messaging, and crypto primitives

BONUS POINTS

• Experience developing on a blockchain node client (preferably Ethereum-like)
• Knowledge of distributed systems theory obtained from coursework or self-study
• Smart contract programming experience using Solidity and Web3 APIs
• Our compensation is blockchain competitive and dependent on your skills & experience.

Job Description

About You

We are looking for a track record of:

• 4+ years of experience in a backend engineering role
• 2+ years of developing with statically typed languages, preferably Go
• 2+ years of experience developing for Linux systems
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Collaborating in and working with a remote, distributed team with an overlap between 8 AM and 12 PM Pacific

Preferred experience with, but not required:

• Exposure to DICOM, HL7, and healthcare information systems
• Significant experience working with SQL and PostgreSQL
• Deep understanding of Linux internals with a focus on storage and networking
• Working knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency management, and parallel systems

What You’ll Be Doing

Delivering secure and well-tested solutions that scale:

• Scale up the platform and integrations between machine learning algorithms and the pipeline
• Design and build the APIs interfacing the data pipeline and machine learning services
• Building security tools to protect sensitive patient data throughout the data pipeline
• Optimize bare-metal appliances to meet the high-performance needs of the application
• Provision infrastructure for the secure services coordinating on-premise and cloud-hosted services

You Might Be a Good Fit if You

Strive to take ownership of a project from ideation to delivery and maintenance. Your experience provides a framework for you to work independently on several initiatives which will provide significant and measurable value to our customers. Seek opportunities to develop horizontal technologies that benefit multiple teams. Build and automation tools to increase the quality of all teams at Ferrum.

Communicate and document everything. At Ferrum, we are a distributed team. A culture of sharing and documentation allows everyone to work together. We are looking for a practitioner of clear documentation that is well-maintained. You adapt your communication style to suit different audiences and follow up on feedback to ensure positive outcomes.

Are a team player. Ferrum is a high-growth, venture-backed, fast-paced startup. This means that while the team members we’re hiring will fully own their functions, we expect them to understand adjacent roles and responsibilities in order to support and sometimes contribute.

Are an out-of-the-box thinker. In a fast-paced startup environment, much of our success hinges on our ability to think differently from competitors, counter-position, outmaneuver, iterate rapidly, and present compelling messaging that differentiates us from the pack.

Think healthcare can be better and want to have an impact in the industry. Ferrum’s team is first and foremost, mission-driven. Our mission is to help hospital systems use AI to improve patient care, and the work that we do impacts patient lives every day.

Job Description

We are looking to hire remote principal engineers as individual contributors to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve Humanitec. You should have significant professional experience in building highly scalable distributed systems. CS degree and experience in dev productivity tools are a plus. Languages: predominantly Go. Everything is on Kubernetes. We pay top 5% in the market, stocks are part of the package. Work is fully remote and we work exclusively with senior engineers in small, lean, and self-organized teams. We currently prefer time-zones UTC-1 to UTC+3.

The product:

We are pioneering a new category of tooling called “Internal Developer Platforms”. Built for some time in companies such as Spotify, Github, Airbnb, and others, we are providing the fastest way for teams to build their own Internal Developer Platforms. Internal Developer Platforms provide a developer experience as simple as Heroku but on top of the tech and tools the team uses already. They allow ops teams to stay in control while enabling developers to self-serve the tech they need. Do you want to spin up an environment to do some quick testing? No problem! Need to clone Production to troubleshoot an issue without risking more problems? Easy! Need to stand up a new database for your service but ops is busy? Piece of cake! We serve customers from startups to unicorns.

The team:

The majority of our company are engineers. Our management team is made up of Ex-Google, Ex-Mckinsey, and serial entrepreneurs. We are backed and advised by experts such as Sohaib Abbasi (Oracle, Redhat, New Relic), Mirko Novakovic (Instana, IBM), Jason Warner (Github, Microsoft), and Chris Schagen (Contentful). We are well on track for our Series A at the beginning of 2022.

We're looking for people who could land a job at the likes of Google, Amazon, or Microsoft - but prefer the excitement, challenge, and daring of being part of a disruptive startup. We focus on your talents and personality - your background, origin, or gender will never make a difference to us.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of software development experience.
• Software development experience in C/C++, C#, Java, Python, Go, or similar.
• Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact.
• Experience with infrastructure technologies, architecting/developing distributed systems, API design, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with how DevOps tools work under the hood (CI pipelines, Terraform, Application Performance Management (e.g. DataDog), etc.).
• Remote & work from a timezone UTC-1 to UTC+3 (Berlin time +/- 2 hours).

Responsibilities of the role:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve the software.
• Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features.
• Build our platforms, systems, and infrastructure using your background in distributed systems, API design, and Kubernetes.
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.

Job Description

We are building the world's premier Operational Intelligence platform for Blockchain. We strive to develop our systems by observing the best practices of our craft; this means writing testable, performant, easy to maintain and constantly improving code, while enabling our company to iterate our product fast and stay ahead.

These are the early days of our platform, and as a Senior Backend Engineer you will be able to contribute, influence and take ownership in significant parts of our systems. Our goal is to build a very high performance platform, capable of analyzing thousands of transactions across multiple blockchain networks in real-time.

If you are a Senior Software Engineer, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, passion for your work and would love to work with a geographically distributed team, join us!

What this position is all about:

1. Designing and implementing crawlers, software agents and accompanying backend services that feed our Operational Intelligence platform with hundreds of metrics pertaining to the performance and health of Blockchain networks. You will be expected to demonstrate capacity to code (or pick up competence in) Python or Golang.
2. Working under a Scrum or Kanban framework and releasing product increments on a continuous basis.
3. Owning your work. This means writing unit tests, ensuring proper containerization, observability/instrumentation and documentation for your code.
4. Understanding, participating and contributing to the company goals, regardless of your role. Metrika is a small company with a very inclusive culture. We are looking for people that share those values with us.

Please note: Our Engineering team is predominantly based in Europe. This position is currently open to those resident and currently able to work in the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein), Switzerland, the UK as well the eastern United States/Canada (UTC-4/UTC-5 timezone)

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Metrika Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion._

Job requirements

You will need:

1. A bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Masters or higher degrees preferred.
2. Considerable experience in building production-grade, distributed, cloud native, asynchronous/event-based microservices-based or serverless systems, using Python, Golang, Java/C# or Scala. (At Metrika we're predominantly using Python and Golang for our services at this time.)
3. Excellent understanding of TDD, agile development methodology and version control.
4. The ability to function autonomously to solve problems, and deliver working software. Our geographic distribution requires people that can work well on their own.
5. The ability to communicate well with your team, both interactively and asynchronously, and that of being a positive, constructive team member.
   

You'll probably be a great fit if you have:

1. Expert knowledge of Python or Golang.

2. Experience with blockchain systems.

3. Experience with key-value, document, time series or other non-relational databases.

4. Experience with CI/CD.

5. Experience with Docker/Kubernetes or Serverless environments.

6. Experience with SQS/SNS, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ or other brokers.

7. Experience with public cloud providers, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean etc.