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.
What are we doing: we are a tech company, operating a thriving and growing broadcast platform, Alexa ranked in the top 100 sites internationally, and the top 25 in the United States, with approximately 10 million daily users, and a worldwide community of fans. Independent Broadcasters use our platform to create and share live streaming video, photographs, and similar content, generally adult in nature, (but no adult content is required).
Our sophisticated system has multiple parts, including but not limited to payment gateways, live chats, and video streaming technology. Every contribution here is of high impact and affects the experience of millions of users using the site every day.
We always explore new ways to use cutting-edge tech stack and move toward modern micro-services based architecture.
How we build the product: The platform is built on Python/Django framework with TypeScript on the front-end. Some parts of the platform use Java, Golang, and Rust.
Top-3 reasons to join our team:
What will you do: Being a part of our infrastructure team, you will be working with Lead backend Engineer on complex migration of our codebase to Python 3 with its further optimization. As a top-notch software engineer in our team, you will be accountable for building comprehensive technical solutions with high-quality standards and practicing clean coding styles.
This includes working on features that are supported across all major web browsers, mobile devices, smart TVs, and video consoles. As a backend engineer, it is expected to work with large data sets and being an expert in designing efficient algorithms, queries, and caching methods.
We value an initiative and are willing to support you in making appropriate technical decisions
What does the recruiting process look like: we value the sense of urgency and aspire to build a smooth and transparent recruiting process. These are our stages in the recruiting process: phone screen with a recruiter, resume review by our hiring manager, first technical interview with a backend team lead to test your knowledge of Python/Django, 1-hour live coding session with the Head of Engineering, Meet&Greet with your potential team.
We reserve the right to add additional selection stages to the process depending on the specific skills of each candidate.
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CAKE is a marketing technology company providing the leading SaaS enterprise platform for real-time marketing intelligence. Our mission is to address the challenges and opportunities in tracking and analyzing the massive amounts of clicks generated from mobile, affiliate, display, retail, lead generation campaigns, and more. Our executive team possesses decades of online marketing experience and a deep understanding of digital analytics across a breadth of industries, leading us to nearly 200% year-over-year growth the last two years.
Every employee of CAKE should continually strive to deliver exceptional service to our clients, subconsultants, co-workers and everyone with whom we come into contact. CAKE represents teamwork, communication, accountability, and respect - this is our public image.
The goal of CAKE is to solidify and grow our client base through the cooperative efforts of employees at all levels. To help us achieve this goal, we promote continuing professional development to serve the needs of our employees and the growth we are building together. By working together, increasing efficiencies and focusing on quality and profitability, we will prosper in any economic environment.
As a Sr. Go Engineer at CAKE, you are responsible for the design, development, and management of the core business processes and data tier of the CAKE platformβs technology stack. This role is an integral part of CAKEβs development team and will work closely with key stakeholders, software architects, and leadership in the Technology and Product groups to ensure optimal development standards, performance, and reliability.
You will use your experience with distributed and/or micro-service architectures to implement high-performance, scalable, and stable code in a distributed architecture, alongside a team of other engineers. Your code will be deployed into multi-region cloud infrastructure (currently AWS); will be ephemeral in nature; and will be designed with testability, monitoring, and scalability in mind.
As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems. We're looking for someone who knows what it takes to deliver value to customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.
Our platform serves over twenty billion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, React, Redux, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, and NATS.
As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible of support applications in production, including on-call. On call is compensated in addition.
Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go
Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features
Monitor and improve server-side performance
Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
Actively participate in code reviews
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
On day one, you should have:
Proven experience and fluency with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)
Experience building RESTful APIs
Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
A deep understanding of networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves hundreds of billions of feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer robust products and services. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive. Our headquarters are in Oakland.
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We've partnered with KeyValues to help demonstrate the amazing culture we've built here at LaunchDarkly, find more info at https://www.keyvalues.com/launchdarkly
LaunchDarkly offers:
Full Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
Unlimited vacation
Flexible schedule & work environment
Healthy lunches & snacks every day.
Conference & meetups as an opportunity for everyone.
A yearly education stipend for conferences and classes on your own.
A budget to personalize your work station.
A location in downtown Oakland, just steps from public transportation
Commuter benefits and bike parking