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Software Engineer WIN.com Remote €75,000 to €95,000 a year
February 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About win.com
We’re a remote-first, fast growing tech startup that brings together the excitement of gaming and the thrill of real money competitions encapsulated in an all-in-one bite-sized entertainment experience.
WIN helps developers tap into a global realm of game monetisation by enabling real money tournaments in any skill-based game.
About the role
They say good looks only take you so far - that’s why we need you to demonstrate that our products are not only good-looking but also highly functional. As a Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to solve highly technical problems to shape WIN's backend systems, infrastructure, development and deployment practices while evangelising a strong engineering culture.
Your work will have a direct impact on the User Experience of all the Win.com players across the world and the internal systems.
This is a contract, per-project, as-needed or full-time role
What you’ll do
Play a key role working on the backend services and infrastructure that powers WIN and other products
Build platforms, services, and APIs
You’ll chiefly be using Go in our various backend and data engineering projects
Using a range of different data stores across our teams including , but not limited to PostgreSQL, Redis, Bleve
You'll be working with RabbitMQ for queues
Collaborate with our cross-functional teams
Superpowers you’ll need
4-6 years of experience architecting and maintaining backend systems
Proven experience with Go; and a great foundation with another programming language (e.g. Java, NodeJS, PHP or Python, etc)
Experience working with Protobufs, gRPC & HTTP/2
Understanding of modern software engineering practices in areas like CI/CD, test automation, micro services, distributed systems, and data management
Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform
Technical vision, ability to understand abstract problems and architect systems that help solve them
A good understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures, such as API / SDK development and integrations
Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Experience with technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana is a plus
Excellent English communication skills to collaborate with a service-oriented team
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
In this role, you can expect to:
Work on highly distributed and scalable systems
Participate in the constant cycle of knowledge sharing and mentoring
Manage and develop some of the biggest clusters in the world
Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies
Contribute to open-source
We are still a small team, well-funded, growing quickly and focused on building an extraordinary company. This is a superb opportunity to join a high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflare’s business grows. You will build tools to constantly improve availability, performance, uptime and response times. You will nurture a passion for an “automate everything” approach that makes systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.
You may be a good fit for our team if:
You have proven skills of designing, developing and delivering HA scalable production systems.
You have deep knowledge of configuration management software, preferably Salt.
You have solid experience with cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Mesos)
You are comfortable with developing software in Go or Python
You know how network services (DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP) and network fundamentals (DHCP, subnetting, routing, firewalls, IPv6, BGP) work
You have strong experience designing and managing multi-tenant database solutions (Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB)
You are confident in your knowledge with load balancers (nginx, HAProxy)
Bonus points if:
You have strong operational skills and are an expert in bash scripting
You have practical knowledge of web and systems performance, extensively used tracing tools like ebpf and strace.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy policy and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!
Principal Software Engineer SendGrid Denver, Colorado, United States $130,000 to $170,000 a year
October 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
The Principal Software Engineer opening is an exciting opportunity to join SendGrid’s Customer Growth Engineering team, developing features and software that impact all points of the customer lifecycle. You’ll make a tremendous impact with the team that spearheads microservice development and operability at SendGrid, using the latest distributed systems programming techniques and technologies like rate limiting, circuit breakers and multi-datacenter (including AWS). You’ll bring the ability and experience to write complex backend services, communicate effectively with cross functional teams, and have a tremendous drive to hone your craft.
Denver is our global headquarters and home to the Customer Growth Engineering team, our revenue growth engine - which your efforts will directly impact.
What You’ll Do
Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
Design entire systems from scratch, end-to-end, that can fit into the SendGrid architecture
Develop solutions for complex problems both independently and with team members
Work with other teams to troubleshoot/determine resolution for complex issues across team domains
Focus on designing and implementing systems for scalability, testability, supportability and maintainability
Use your foresight and experience to keep our systems effectively running now and in the future through profiling, load testing, failure testing, monitoring and much more to have confidence in the robustness of the systems we deploy
Lead team initiatives and implementations from conception to completion
Recommend and champion improvements to our software and product development process
Drive improvements in quality of team's work output
Staff Site Reliability Engineer smlXL New York City, United States $170,000 to $250,000 a year
May 2023
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About the job
smlXL is a 'stealth' start-up building an Information retrieval service with Consumer and Enterprise applications. Our first focus is providing a far richer understanding of the semantics of blockchain activity, making data and information accessible and useful to all.
We aren't ready to talk broadly about what we are working on, but we might be a good place for you if:
You are highly technical; you care about your craft; you are constantly learning; used to working on baremetal servers and running your own stack, you are fascinated by Information Systems, Semiotics, and Blockchain data; you get excited by turning black boxes transparent; and you love working on things that add a ton of value to consumers and prosumers alike; or you are into the EVM, decompilers, databases, and distributed systems.
About You
Experience keeping production systems running smoothly, experienced with working on private cloud/colo/bare-metal environments
Experience building software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
Experience with and/or a desire to go deeper into blockchain technology and crypto protocols
HashiCorp or Nomad experience is a plus
You care about polish and adding value to our users but not perfectionism for perfectionism’s sake
You love working collaboratively with different disciplines and learning from others
You are an expert who stays curious with a beginner’s mindset
You are a thoughtful communicator and collaborator and work to gain consensus with your peers and stakeholders, but you’re not afraid to speak up
You want to win, but prefer to win as a team
You are proactive
You are thoughtful and open about your priorities, goals, and aspirations so we can help you achieve them
You have specific passions outside of work
We believe that on average it will take 5+ years of experience in an engineering role to get to the level we want, but don’t let that stop you
Benefits and Support
Comprehensive health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
Flexible working hours, flexible WFH policy and unlimited time off with approval
Gender-neutral parental leave program for primary and secondary caregivers
Competitive salary and equity compensation with 401K retirement plan options
Physical, Mental, and Financial Well-being applications are provided at little to no cost, including fertility benefits, fitness classes, mental health, physical therapy, and healthcare apps (One Medical)
We encourage, support, and make time for our team members to invest in side projects and community projects
At Netflix, we strive to bring joy to people across the world through amazing stories. As we grow internationally, we are continually enhancing our cloud-based infrastructure to improve our performance, scalability, and reliability.
The SRE team's goal is to ensure customer joy by successfully managing risk and minimizing impact across Netflix. We do this through cross-functional engagement with other engineering teams, managing issues when they happen, as well as promoting reliability and resilience practices throughout the organization.
Outcomes
Improve our incident management lifecycle to identify, mitigate, and learn from reliability risks
Increase our reliability through establishing guidance and methods of improvement
Form and maintain relationships with internal and external partners
Develop deeper insights and analysis into the quality of experience for our customers
We Value
Curiosity about how complex sociotechnical systems successfully operate at scale when failure is inevitable
People who see influence as their preferred tool for cultivating relationships
Collaboration and continuous improvement
A desire to learn and readiness to teach
Iteration as the path forward
Our Work
Drive incidents to resolution by coordinating with multiple engineering teams
Identify sources of instability in large-scale distributed systems and drive operational excellence
Analyze complex systems from a reliability and resilience perspective
Engage with product teams to diagnose operational surprises and carry forward improvements
Improve reliability and drive down the burden of toil with tooling and automation
Nice to Have
Experience with global, continuous delivery methods
Development with Python, Go, Java, or JavaScript/Node.js
Involvement with incident management and response
Knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS and microservices architecture
Platform Engineer Watchtower AI San Francisco, United States $120,000 to $200,000 a year
September 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
As an early Platform Engineer at Watchtower, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.
Responsibilities:
Building highly-available and secure authentication and API services
Maintaining and evolving mission-critical internal databases and services
Optimizing and operating high volume auto-scaling streaming data services
Instrumenting streaming data services for visibility into utilization per customer
Qualifications:
Expertise in one or more systems/high-level programming language (e.g. Go, Rust, Python, Java, C++) and the eagerness to learn more.
Eagerness to wear multiple hats in a startup environment
Experience running scalable (thousands of RPS) and reliable (five 9’s) systems.
Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL, e.g. Cassandra, CockroachDB, Spanner)
Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
Data Processing - experience with building and maintaining large scale and/or real-time complex data processing pipelines using Kafka, Hadoop, Hive, Storm, or Zookeeper
Watchtower is a cybersecurity startup dedicated to helping enterprises secure and manage their sensitive data. As a leading enterprise technology company, our product affects the personal data that people entrust businesses to store & process with care every day. Critical data in the modern enterprise is often sprayed across a broad set of cloud systems (e.g. SaaS & data infrastructure), and it’s a herculean task for security teams to monitor, manage, and protect this highly sensitive data. Via machine learning, our product makes it easy for companies to discover, classify, and protect this sensitive data across their cloud footprint - such as their corporate SaaS, data infrastructure, and APIs. In doing so, we prevent data leakage, provide unprecedented data visibility & protection across the cloud, and enable compliance. We're a technology startup based in San Francisco and Palo Alto, well-funded by leading institutional investors with deep expertise in the cybersecurity industry. Learn more at our website www.watchtower.ai or by reaching out via email at careers@watchtower.ai.
At Palantir, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We partner with the most important institutions in the world to transform how they use data and technology. Our software has been used to stop terrorist attacks, discover new medicines, gain an edge in global financial markets, and more. If these types of projects excite you, we'd love for you to join us.
The Role
The Deployment Infrastructure team's goal is to accelerate the end-to-end engineering lifecycle at Palantir by building tools and platforms that make it easier to create, deploy, and iterate on secure and highly available software. As a Software Engineer on the Deployment Infrastructure team, you will reimagine how our company builds and deploys software and how we use data to make decisions, then build the products and infrastructure to enable that new approach.
Core Responsibilities
*Build and maintain highly available systems responsible for service deployment & telemetry across hundreds of production environments.
*Design and evolve software managing in-environment service discovery and configuration of microservices.
*Architect and manage secure, scalable infrastructure utilizing Kubernetes to support our external and internal use cases.
*Develop tools to enable other engineers such as CI/CD pipelines, container schedulers, and custom applications.
*Debug complex issues and performance problems throughout the stack.
What We Value
*Experience in Software Engineering or similar field
*Systems programming experience in Golang, Java, or equivalent
*Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems
*Demonstrated success building systems that meet requirements around monitoring, stability, and scalability
*Deep familiarity with containers (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) at scale
*Experience working with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCE) or in-house data centers
*Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform
Palantir is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Please see the United States Department of Labor's EEO poster and EEO poster supplement for additional information.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@palantir.com.
Senior Golang Engineer All In Bits San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States) $180,000 to $200,000 a year
July 2023
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About the Role:
We are seeking Golang Engineers who are passionate about developing cutting-edge technology. In this role, you will be tasked with creating and implementing features such as Golang interpreters, libraries, developer tools, and utilities to power the Gnolang language. This is an opportunity to contribute to a groundbreaking platform from its inception and help shape the future of smart contracts in the blockchain industry.
Basic Qualifications
Exceptional proficiency in Golang, with a minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience.
Proven experience with open-source projects.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work autonomously on complex problems.
This role will be based in the United States.
Nice-to-Have
Interest in or knowledge of computer science fundamentals, such as network, storage, OS, data structures, transpilers/compilers.
Familiarity with concepts such as proof-of-stake, consensus algorithms, decentralized exchanges, public-key cryptography, and DeFi/Blockchain projects.
Experience with Solidity and a solid understanding of Solidity/Ethereum concepts.
Experience working with distributed teams and building distributed systems.
$179,000 - $200,000 a year
Please note that the salary range provided is for reference purposes only. During the interview, we will evaluate each candidate's experience and skills and determine an appropriate salary offer. We are committed to practicing salary transparency and equity, offering competitive compensation packages based on a candidate's qualifications and experience. Our dedication to ensuring that our employees are compensated fairly for their contributions demonstrates our belief in creating a fair and equitable workplace.
About Us:
All in Bits (AiB) aims to create a more transparent and accountable world through open-source software that enables permissionless innovation and borderless transactions. Our technology empowers builders to launch sovereign blockchains and decentralized applications (dApps) that are secure, scalable, and interoperable.
AiB is a longstanding contributor to the Cosmos ecosystem. In 2014, our CEO, Jae Kwon, was the first to introduce a solution to the Proof-of-Stake distributed consensus problem, building the core infrastructure that powers Cosmos today including Tendermint Core and Cosmos SDK. From creating and funding to engineering and marketing, we prioritize simplistic and minimalistic approaches to building technological solutions that endure.
AiB is committed to upholding core Cosmos values of transparency, accountability, and decentralization. That’s why we support the creation of the Decentralists DAO for the Cosmos Hub to move all operations on-chain, starting with engineering. By establishing the DAO registered team, we aim to advance core components of the Cosmos tech stack and encourage open dialogue, decision-making, and innovation.
How we work:
We focus on talent rather than location to hire the very best person for every role. Open communication is vital, and we use the best tools to collaborate efficiently. Everyone has the autonomy to create their best work, which we reward with unlimited growth potential. AiB is remote-first, and to support your working life, we offer carefully considered benefits and hold regular team and company-wide meetings to encourage collaboration and interaction between teams.
You have the flexibility to work the hours best suited to your lifestyle; as long as you deliver consistent quality work, the sky's the limit! You will be required to be available from 8 am - 10 am PST some days when we bring our people together to contribute to our Town Hall sessions. We value diversity, inclusivity, honesty, and accountability. AiB is a place where talent thrives and you'll have the opportunity to carve out an exciting career trajectory best suited to your unique skills and interests.
Direct applications only. Ignite does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies in response to Ignite website or social media posts. Ignite will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited resumes. Ignite explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resume, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ignite.
Maestro is a cutting edge software startup with the mission of providing end-to-end solutions for funding, building and scaling decentralized applications on the Cardano blockchain. By abstracting away the complexities of the blockchain, our platform enables developers to concentrate more on their user experiences and less on the underlying scale, security and reliability required to support their products.
##About the role
We are looking for highly motivated and talented engineers to work with the team and help lay the foundations for the financial future! As a Software Engineer specializing in Go, you will build mission-critical software that enables decentralized applications to interact with the Cardano blockchain reliably and at scale.
Your contributions
Work on the front lines of a quickly-growing blockchain startup and lead the design and implementation of Maestro’s Dapp Platform.
Become the key technical leader of in-house Go services and design reliable, performant and microservice-oriented applications.
Design and build APIs, data pipelines and event-driven systems to support reliable and scalable transmission of mission-critical data.
Work closely with cross-functional teams to establish seamless integrations and efficient interfaces.
Your background and experience
B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or a related technical field and/or comparable work experience.
3+ years of professional software development experience.
Experience architecting and writing software that interfaces with cloud-native, distributed systems.
Experience building highly-performant APIs and data processing pipelines that are rigorously tested and horizontally scalable.
Deep understanding of common software design principles, asynchronous programming, and event-driven architectures.
Experience building systems that interact with both SQL and NoSQL databases in an optimal way.
Containerization and deployment of software using Docker.
Nice to haves
Container orchestration and service deployments using Kubernetes.
Google Cloud Platform experience.
Leadership experience managing teams and projects.
Experience building applications in blockchain and fintech.
Experience working with UTxO-based blockchain technologies.
You learn about blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies in your free time.
Funding
We have raised money from VCs around the world to help us realize our vision of becoming a key blockchain infrastructure provider in the industry. We are currently undergoing a seed round raise and rapidly obtain customers to battle test our tools and services!
Working with the Maestro team
Partake in a cutting-edge software startup with the goal of revolutionizing blockchain infrastructure and laying the foundations for the financial future of the world.
Work in a high-performance and productive environment with people from around the world and a diverse set of experiences.
Please submit your application, along with a resume and brief letter of intent to info@gomaestro.org.
Senior Golang Engineer Summon Remote (Americas timezones only) $110,000 to $160,000 a year
August 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We're building a unified developer experience to help software teams move faster and stay focused on achieving their goals. Over the past decades, software development has grown in importance inside organizations and with it there has been a Cambrian explosion of tooling. While each tool is great at what it does, they live in their own silos and weren’t built to work together. These silos lead to disconnected workflows, context switching, and difficulty finding information. Our vision is to build a better way to get work done. Summon brings together your tools and data into one blazingly fast, native experience. We’re just getting started and our ambition is bold: build the best platform for software teams to get their work done.
We love what we do and are motivated by working on a product we love using ourselves. You would have an immediate impact as a builder to influence engineering and the direction of the product. You join as a founding engineer and have full ownership working closely with our founders and a team of super talented developers.
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for a full-time backend engineer. Our ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building event driven microservices or service oriented architectures and has built most facets, if not all, in a "twelve-factor" app. Preference is for real experience (2+ years) in our primary language of Golang, but other languages are considered when able to quickly pick up new technologies. Additional experience in integrating with 3rd party systems, event-driven architecture, databases, and cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc) are important.
You will directly influence how and what to build, and must be comfortable collaborating on the architecture, code, product, etc as we have a strong culture of devops as well as being technically curious, thoughtful and purposeful in what we build. We value deploying frequently with well-written, maintainable, instrumented and tested code to a kubernetes cluster.
Responsibilities:
Develop new products and features in a small team
Collaboration with the team to solve technical problems and help shape the product direction
Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
Review other software engineers' code for correctness, style, and completeness
Support your team's production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report
Write integration tests and work with our product team to ensure the operation and correctness of new features
Requirements:
5+ years of backend engineering in a distributed systems
2+ years in Golang or 5+ using several languages you were able to quickly pick up
Strong knowledge of a variety of database systems (Graph, relational etc.)
Experience working with 3rd party APIs and OAuth
Comfortable with strong dev ops culture
Strong communication skills in English and experience working as part of a remote team
Need to be located in timezones UTC-4 through UTC-8 (The Americas)
Excited to travel internationally for company retreats (twice a year)
Favorite Ted Lasso quote
Why join us?
We love what we do: designing and building great products. But our work isn't the only thing that defines us. We're not trying to create some semi-cult to get people to work here. We simply enjoy working together and building useful and beautiful software for our customers. We’re a venture-backed startup and are looking for someone who is excited about the early stages of building a product and having a tangible impact on the company’s success.
You would join a group of repeat founders. We have founded startups backed by top Silicon Valley VCs. While getting huge amounts of venture capital has its advantages, it also puts a company on a very narrow success path. We want to do it a little differently this time. Where raising money and growth is balanced with the goal of being default-alive and capital-efficient. Which gives us optionality and lets us build the company we want to build over the long run.