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
• Provide technical coaching and mentorships

Our stack includes: Golang, Docker, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, AWS

About You

• 8+ years of software development experience in a modern programming language (Go, Python, Java, Ruby or C++)
• Proficient across a highly diverse set of technologies (Hadoop Golang, HAproxy, etc) OR expert in at least one technology
• Ability to translate architecture vision into concrete system designs
• Experience with building reliable and robust software that tolerates and recovers from unreliable dependencies
• Expert OO  experience and software engineering expertise (coding, automated tests, profiling, monitoring, etc)
• Able to lead design meetings and Agile ceremonies
• Experience using CM tools, preferably git
• Solid experience with MySQL, Redis and Kafka, DynamoDB a plus
• An insatiable learner, curious and constantly pushing the boundary of what is possible
• Enjoy designing, writing and growing vital business services that add value

Job Description

Senior Golang Engineer

Job description

Today, video accounts for over 80% of all internet traffic! 🤯

We are increasingly living in a video-first world where our online experiences are dominated by real-time, streaming, and on-demand video.

Our mission at api.video is to connect people through their cameras. We are a global API-first platform managing and delivering online video at scale and our goal is to become the standard for how modern teams bring video experiences into their products and services.

Just like Stripe for payments, Twilio for text and VOIP, and Sendgrid for email; we're making video accessible to every developer on the planet.

What's the opportunity? 🤔

100% Remote possible (we have an HQ in Bordeaux, and we rely on many coworking spaces) (CET timezones)

As part of the Core Team, you will be responsible of the private and public webservices conception and development. Your role will allow developers to integrate quickly all needed functionalities to deliver on-demand or live streaming videos in their own app and services.

• A unique opportunity to be an early member of a success story
• Important responsibilities in a fast growing company seeking for excellence
• A welcoming and collaborative environment with people who love working on hard problems
• Ambitious objectives enabling you to skyrocket your learning curve

What will you be doing? 🛠️

Attached to the Core Team, you will actively contribute to the development of api.video:

• by designing and developing scalable micro-services,
• by doing tests (units, functionals and mutation),
• by writing and documenting private and public API,
• by taking part of the corrective and evolutive maintenance,
• by being proactive and on the lookout of any tech opportunities that could make api.video integration easier for developers
• by ensuring code quality, sustainability and low level of technical debt
• by working in our technical environment: Git (GitLab), Ansible, Linux, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, S3

Job requirements

What skills do you need?

• You have a strong experience in conception / development, in particular with Golang
• You have knowledge in micro-services architecture, asynchronous communication and scalability
• You follow best practices such as Unit tests, TDD, DRY, KISS...
• You have knowledge of RESTful web services
• You have some experience in CI/CD
• You are passionate, curious, rigorous and autonomous, you like to work with a team on a human scale, collaborative and responsible
• You have a thirst for knowledge in the most cutting-edge fields of the industry
• You are open to training and attending conferences in order to improve your skills

Nice to have:

• PHP and/or Docker knowledge is a plus
• DevOps skills is a huge plus