Backend Software Engineer, Gremlin
Java
Reliability management platform for high-velocity engineering teams
Job no longer available
Reliability management platform for high-velocity engineering teams
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a more reliable internet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years professional Java software engineering experience
- Experience in Rust & Systems Level Programming
- Experience in cloud technologies: e.g AWS, Lambda, Serverless. Experience with other cloud technologies like Google, Oracle also considered
- Experience in DynamoDB and/or other no-sql DB or experience in any major relational databases
- Experience in infrastructure & systems level technologies: e.g., Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShiftExperience in architecting complex distributed systems and integrating with external systems
- Self-driven and collaborative problem solver with strong communication skills
- Experienced in breaking down ambiguous problems into concrete actions and milestones
- Must be willing to work in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with agile development environments and practices
- Should have experience doing code reviews
- Strong advocate and practitioner of automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices
Desirable
- Has been on-call and participated in an incident management program
- Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks & web development practices: e.g., React, TypeScript, etc
- Experience taking features from concept to full production release
What the job involves
- Work closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to design and build the latest and greatest in Chaos Engineering tooling
- Leverage strong collaboration and communication skills to deliver new features within a remote culture
- Partner with product and other business units to understand business problems and present technical solutions and tradeoffs
- Actively mentor and grow your teammates
- Care deeply about the customer experience
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Web application development requires databases, storage services and other components to work together consistently for a user-experience to be smooth. If a single element in this ecosystem experiences downtime, the whole system will suffer, presenting chaotic troubleshooting challenges.
Gremlin designs services that intentionally causes outages and faults within an application system to allow developers to identify weaknesses within the system. The startups ‘chaos engineering’ services provide a unique perspective over existing troubleshooting startups that focus on analyzing outages as and when they happen.
As opposed to generally 'breaking' systems, Gremlin has developed its 'ALFI' feature to provide personalized attacks. This allows users to locate vulnerabilities in their unique application systems as opposed to general server setups.
Insights
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2018
$18m
SERIES B
Dec 2017
$7.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $26.8m
Company benefits
- Medical insurance
- Parental leave
- Home office benefits
- Retirements savings plan
- Outings and events
- Discretionary paid time off
- Referral bonus
Company values
- Our People - People are our critical differentiators. The company strives to treat our people with respect, empathy, and dignity. We expect that our people will treat each other similarly. In both cases, we will assume good intent. All are welcome at Gremlin. We know our differences make us stronger and that our best ideas and contributions can come from anyone at any level
- Collaboration - Gremlin is strongest when we come together as one team with shared goals. Be the glue, not the glitter. But as a remote company, teamwork and collaboration won’t happen by accident. We approach every challenge as a shared challenge. We rely on each other for diverse perspectives and creative ideas. We celebrate our wins as a team
- Results - Be high productivity, low drama. Results matter. To keep our pace, everyone owns the outcomes of their actions and takes action when needed. We reward speed over perfection. We empower each other to iterate and experiment.You are welcome at Gremlin for who you are. The more voices and ideas we have represented in our business, the more we will all flourish, contribute, and build a more reliable internet. Gremlin is a place where everyone can grow and is encouraged. However you identify and whatever background you bring with you, please apply if this sounds like a role that would make you excited to come into work everyday. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep building a more reliable internet by building and designing tools used by the best companies in the world
Company HQ
Downtown San Jose, San Jose, CA
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Founders
Kolton Andrus
(CTO)Former Chaos Engineer on Netflix’s Edge Platform team. They designed and built FIT, a failure injection service. Prior to Netflix, they worked in Amazon Retail where they built Amazon’s failure service.
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