• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer with experience developing distributed systems
• Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform)
• Experience with inner workings of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly; articulate technical challenges and solutions
• Speed and hustle → Ability to prioritize across feature development and tech debt
• Ability to solve complex programming/optimization problems
• Ability to quickly prototype optimization solutions and analyze large/complex data
• Clear communication skills

Desirable

• Build systems that enable users to manage petabytes of data with a fully managed cloud service
• Build functionality that enables data systems to be cloud native (self managed), scalable (auto scaling) and secure (different levels of access control)
• Build scalable job management on Kubernetes to ingest, store, manage and optimize petabytes of data on cloud storage
• Design systems that help scale and streamline metadata and data access from different query/compute engines
• Exhibit full ownership of product features, including design and implementation, from concept to completion
• Be passionate about designing for future scale and high availability, while possessing a deep understanding of common failure patterns and their remediations
• Uphold a high engineering bar around the code, monitoring, operations, automated testing, release management of the platform