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Who We Are
We’re a small team of experienced engineers with diverse technical backgrounds. We’re passionate about driving our coworkers’ success and building the next generation of software tooling. If you want to work on distributed systems infrastructure and development practices or you have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to make something that your peers use every day, we’d love for you to join us. Tooling handles many different areas, so we’re building a diverse team with a wide range of expertise.
What We Do - We build shared infrastructure and tools to make engineering more productive, reliable, and cost effective. - We maintain several Segment Open Source projects. - We work in Go, Terraform and a bit of Node.js. - Read more about Segment’s infrastructure and how we use: distributed logging and secure secrets. Or, read our code: conf, ksuid, cwlogs, go-prompt, ecs-logs, chamber. - We manage the tooling and process around development environments, testing, CI, and deployment. - Read more on our blog about how we use: CI and Make.
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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.
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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.
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
Tools We Use:
Go, React, Python, Cassandra, Redis, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (SQS, S3, Redshift, RDS, EKS), Kafka, Envoy
About Watchtower:
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.