Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Persistence)

Job Description
Team:
Platform persistence group provides storage API for higher layer applications. Depending on the nature of the data, the storage systems include relational database, non-relational database such as columnar database, time series database, or message queue system. Our largest customers are always pushing the limits of the backend storage in terms of size of the data, speed of IO, as well as number of concurrent transactions. Performance, reliability, and scalability is always at the core of our work.
As a Senior Data Platform Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to become a key member of the Platform Persistence group. Team members will be mentored in the necessary skills to become successful contributors to the team.
What you'll do and need to know:
You'll create the features exposing and leveraging capabilities on our underlying database engines.
Experience in Core Java development, object-oriented and modularized software.
Provide platform API to manage large data volume and record life cycles while keeping the database healthy and performing.
Demonstrated success completing complex projects.
Demonstrated aptitude for learning new technologies.
Nice to have:
Experience with concurrency issues.
Good knowledge of java internals
Good knowledge of database internals
Experience programmatically handling large data volume on relational database.
Good understanding of a DevOps environment
Solid background in java backend programming solving problems at scale.
Experience with Ruby or Go.