Golang Distributed Systems Jobs in Chicago

Job Description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). As an SRE, you will be tasked with the reliability and operation of our production environments. SREs are tasked with ensuring teams within the company receive help maintaining software at scale, as well as help designing and developing software for scale. SREs are expected to engage with the product teams to ensure the delivery of our software is as seamless as possible.

These position is based out of our Washington D.C. or Chicago Illinois office locations. An active clearance or ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance will be required.

We look for a track record of the following:

• Coming alongside high energy engineering teams to enable the adoption of best practices to enable the scalability and reliability of deployed software,
• Defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure,
• Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production services,
• Experience facilitating the definition and implementation of SLIs and SLOs,
• Understanding how to carefully spend error budget to handle regular deployment of large changes to production,
• Deep experience in Linux operating systems, and systems engineering,
• Comfort delivering critical software in Go and Python,
• Willingness to debug problems across the stack,
• Comfortability with working on underspecified problems and are capable of rapidly learning and iterating on solutions,
• Experience building the wrong system enough times to avoid the common pitfalls, whether building something personally or advising others.

You might be a good fit if you:

• 5+ years of relevant SRE experience in the tech industry,
• demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security and experience supporting web application architecture,
• experience working with a variety of storage systems, application architectures, compute infrastructure and network management systems,
• experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production service,
• defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure, proven knowledge at least one higher-level language (eg. Python and Golang),
• The ability and desire to build and learn new systems with new technologies.

Rebellion is a well-capitalized technology start-up firm that is passionate about defining and delivering modern, life-changing software products to the US Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), and their allies. At Rebellion we believe in operating what we own, we deliver all of our products as managed services, this allows our product teams to maintain operational ownership across all deployments. Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers.

Compensation includes meaningful equity ownership, competitive salaries, full medical coverage, disability and life insurance, and transit reimbursement.

An Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Rebellion Defense is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Rebellion Defense does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.

Job Description

As a core member of our backend engineering team, you will work with our VP of Engineering to architect and implement our core products and engineering vision. This role will require the candidate to wear many hats with responsibilities such as working on our Node.js+BigTable based CRUD RESTful API microservices or container orchestration via Python and Kubernetes. This role will have the ability to lead greenfield projects (i.e. rewriting our decision-engine in Go) and be able to put their stamp on the Precognitive code base.

As an early member of our engineering team, this role will fast track into either a Staff Engineer/Lead Engineer. As the company continues to grow, the opportunity to move into management will become available for qualified candidates.

REQUIREMENTS: - 4+ years of building RESTful APIs. - Production use of Node.js, Elixir, Go, Java, C++, or Python. - Production experience working with a wide-column store such as BigTable (our main database), Aerospike, HBase or Cassandra (experience with DynamoDB also a bonus). - Experience working with Docker & Kubernetes (GKE preferred) in a DevOps capacity. - Production experience working in a distributed environment, especially with global or multi-region distribution. - Master debugger, with the ability to diagnose problems/bugs quickly and efficiently. - Ability to be on call for off-hour incidents (i.e PagerDuty alerts). - BA/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related subject.

DESIRED SKILLS and EXPERIENCE: - History of developing in multiple languages including Java, C/C++, Go, Ruby, Python or JavaScript (Node.js). - Production experience working with high throughput / low-latency databases at scale (100s of TB of data). - Savvy with large-scale relational and/or non-relational databases. - Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform. - Previous history in a startup. - The ability to make pragmatic decisions finding the right solution for short-term needs with an eye to how actions fit into the long-term roadmap.

Job Description

ReviewTrackers is the rapidly-growing customer feedback platform trusted by tens of thousands of businesses. Using data, insights and technology, we partner with brands to ensure customer success. We have created an environment where employees can learn, grow and do the best work of their careers. We are seeking a Sr. Backend Engineer who wishes to learn new skills, contribute great things, and be the best version of themselves.

We are a polyglot shop, and use the best tools for the job. On the front-end, we use React/Redux on Node.js. Our public API is written in Go. Our micro-services are written in Ruby or Go.

What we need from you: -3+ years practical use of programming in a modern programming language -Solid object-oriented programming and functional programming design skills -Passion for technology and building scalable systems -Experience with SQL (PostgreSQL) -Excellent communication skills -Participated in the architecture and design of new and existing products -Never stopped learning, and are always ready to pick up new languages, frameworks, libraries -Advanced knowledge of one or more of the following technologies: Golang, Node, React/Redux, Javascript (ECMAScript 5+), Ruby, HTML/CSS, PostgreSQL, Solr, Rabbit MQ

Preferred Background: -Experience using Golang in a production application -Experience using Ruby and PostgreSQL

Engineering team culture: -Time dedicated to discussing & POC-ing product ideas created from ALL employees, including engineering -Clear and defined promotion path for all engineers -Collaborative work environment. Our engineers are super friendly and love to help each other out! -We regularly pull in tech-debt items to work on in sprints -Weekly 1 on 1 with manager -Tight-knit relationship with the Product Team & use data-driven decision making
-Bi-weekly company wide demo day to find out what individuals throughout the company are working on -Monthly Engineering lunch and learns

Engineering Process: We get our work assignments through two week sprints which include kickoff, grooming (estimation), retrospective and daily standups

Engineer benefits at ReviewTrackers: -$1500/year education budget (conferences, continued education) -Weekly WFH day -Separate monthly budget dedicated to education through books -We strive for 3 (2 guaranteed) 100% meeting free days

Awesome Perks and Benefits at ReviewTrackers: -Blue Cross Blue Shield healthcare benefits that are built for both individuals and families - ReviewTrackers pays for your Health, Dental and Vision coverage -Flexible PTO -401k match -Startup culture with lots of room for growth and impact -Formal and informal career development, including frequent Lunch and Learns -Transparent environment; all team members have access to company performance information and leadership team -Your own MacBookPro, Sonos in the Office, and access to cutting-edge technology -Well stocked kitchen with healthy snacks -Company outings (after hours MarioKart tournaments, comedy show nights, salad bar lunches, happy hours) -Take your coworker to lunch program where RT will cover the cost of lunch between you and your peer -Continuous learning with unlimited books on Kindle -Dog friendly office