Golang Source Jobs in United States

Job Description

Here at Sysdig, we’re what you might call container-obsessed. It starts with our unique technology, which listens to the heart of the operating system to surface the deepest data with the least overhead. From there, we’ve created the first-ever Container Intelligence Platform, which proactively uncovers issues before they manifest, and allows for deep digging to solve the most complex problems.

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about building simple, scalable services to deal with complex data. You will work alongside an established engineering team located throughout the US and Europe. Sysdig is a high growth startup, and there will be significant growth opportunities for this position. Our customer base is growing fast and so is the scale demanded of our backend. As a consequence, we're embarking on a major re-architecting of our platform.

Role Responsibilities:

• You'll lead projects as part of this scale-out effort that will allow us to handle the next orders of magnitude. Examples of such projects include writing Kafka-based streaming services.
• Distribute query engine targeting of our Cassandra and ElasticSearch data store.
• Optimize ingest pipeline.
• Put machine learning features into production.
• Handle both monitoring and security data on a daily basis across multiple platform tiers (Kubernetes, AWS, Mesos)

Required Qualifications:

• Prior experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines
• Production experience with at least one of Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch
• Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures and algorithms
• Java experience highly preferred
• Experience with AWS is a plus
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
• Startup / entrepreneurial experience is a plus
• A positive "can do" attitude with the ability to articulate thoughts and ideas and see them to fruition
• An appetite for varied data.

Key Technologies:

• Java
• Go
• Cassandra
• ElasticSearch
• Kafka
• Linux

Why work at Sysdig?

• We’re a well funded startup that already has a large enterprise customer base.
• We have a pragmatic, approachable culture, from the CEO down.
• We have an organizational focus on delivering value to customers.
• Our open source tools (https://www.sysdig.org) are widely used and loved by technologists & developers.
• We have fun team with company events, beer outings, and lots of espresso (if you’re into that).

Perks & Benefits

Along with top notch health insurance coverage, we offer a variety of benefits and perks, such as:

• Desk and tech setup of your choice (for wherever you work)
• IRA with company matching up to 3% of salary
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Monthly self-improvement grant – spend on yourself however you see fit!
• Free weekly team lunches and delicious snacks every day of the week
• Free monthly house cleaning service

Job Description

Role Summary

The Senior Software Engineer is a team member of Global Connected Consumer Experience – Advanced Development & Concepts Group and is responsible and accountable for the quality and delivery of applications that make up complex systems serving GM customers. This role requires extensive knowledge of software development technologies, techniques and processes. The successful candidate will work independently on projects around autonomous vehicle and ride sharing. The individual will be tackling hard engineering problems on a day-to-day basis. The individual will work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team of individuals of various levels of experience who will be driving new software and/or software improvements across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to understand complex problems in the data, natural language and contextual spaces from PoC through the product.
  
• Create solutions that scale to in the face of big data using the latest technologies including open source
  
• Software analysis, code analysis, requirements analysis software review, identification of code metrics, system risk analysis, software reliability analysis, Object-oriented Analysis and Design
  
• Maintain a balance between building sustainable, high-impact projects while shipping software quickly
  
• Software modeling and simulation
  
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation
  
• Maintain standards compliance and adherence to governance policies
  
• Work with leadership to identify continuous improvement opportunities for software development, design and engineering areas
  
• Drive for code asset management and reusable design frameworks
  
• Conduct research on new products and drive implementation to benefit/optimize overall software development

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience with common programming languages like Java, C++. Broad experience with software at all levels is a must.
  
• Experience with common intelligence tooling from big data stores, cloud platforms, Python and machine learning frameworks preferred.
  
• Rich experience in software throughout the ecosystem from embedded, mobile and cloud platforms.
  
• Hands-on and can-do attitude in developing solutions to software architectures to meet user experience, platform or performance needs.
  
• Expert knowledge of database modeling and data structure principles, techniques and best practices.
  
• Strong knowledge of design patterns, different programming paradigms.
  
• 3+ years of experience as software engineer
  
• Passionate about self-driving technology

Required a degree in computer science or related technical field.
Master’s degree, preferred