Senior Developer Production Software Engineer

Senior Developer Productivity Software Engineer
Location:
SF Bay Area
Department:
Development
Position Type:
Full-Time / Hybrid
Comp:
$126,000 - $201,000 + Discretionary Bonuses
Overview:
Join a pioneering company that develops leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. Our platforms empower partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.
The Role:
Are you passionate about engineering quality, efficiency, and increasing the impact of engineers around you?
Software Engineers at our company build software at scale to transform how organizations globally use data. As a Software Engineer on Developer Productivity, youll identify, develop, and drive investments to improve the velocity and quality of our engineering, as well as bolster the happiness and productivity of other developers.
The role spans a spectrum of areas, such as build and software supply-chain systems, platform runtime environments, telemetry relating to concurrency, memory/performance optimizations, and monitoring/alerting. Your primary users will be other developers within our organization. They will be empowered with the software you develop to build capabilities used by research scientists, aerospace engineers, intelligence analysts, and economic forecasters in countries around the world. There will be opportunities to contribute to open source software, including projects maintained by others that we leverage. Youll work autonomously within a community that will support and challenge you as you grow to become a strong technical contributor and engineering leader.
The team is hiring for both Frontend and Backend engineers.
Core Responsibilities:
We're hiring engineers who are passionate about solving real-world problems and empowering developers to do their work optimally. If youre motivated to develop reliable, performant, scalable systems and tools, here are some examples of the types of work youd get to do:
Define and build standard practices for how services are operated and observed throughout their deployment.
Build libraries and tooling for defining service APIs and the RPC interactions between microservices.
Unify frontend build and CI infrastructure across the organization.
Help developers understand and adhere to development practices by building great tools and development processes.
Push the company to the cutting edge of software supply chain security.
Technologies We Use:
A variety of languages, including Java, Go, and TypeScript.
Open-source databases like Cassandra, Lucene, Elasticsearch.
Open-source libraries/frameworks like GraphQL, Undertow, Jackson, and Log4j.
Industry-standard build tooling, including Gradle, Webpack, CircleCI, and GitHub.
What We Value:
Expertise and depth of understanding of a technology or problem space, centralizing and abstracting complexity away from users to expose simple, powerful APIs.
Ability to understand how technical decisions impact individuals who will use what youre building and drive to super-power those people.
Empathy for developer and operator workflows and productivity.
Awareness of recent industry practices and open source advancements.
Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance is beneficial but not necessary.
Requirements:
2+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics.
Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
Great problem-solving skills with the ability to dive into and navigate existing complex systems.
Familiarity with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits:
We aim to promote health and wellbeing across all areas of our employees' lives. We continually improve our offerings and listen to our community when designing and updating them. Benefits include:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Life and disability coverage.
Paid leave for new parents and emergency back-up care for all parents.
Family planning support, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy assistance.
Stipend for expenses related to a new child.
Commuter benefits.
Relocation assistance.
Unlimited paid time off.
2 weeks of paid time off at the end of each year.