Senior Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5+ years of software engineering experience building reliable services, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• Strong programming skills in at least one systems or backend language, such as Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, or Python.
• Rust experience is a strong plus for compute and systems-oriented roles.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, concurrency, and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Experience or strong interest in cloud infrastructure, virtualization, Linux systems, containers, storage, networking, security, schedulers, control planes, or management planes.
• Ability to design, build, test, and debug reliable software in a large, evolving codebase.
• Strong communication skills, collaboration skills, and an ownership-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• System Design & Architecture - System Scalability:
• Leverages distributed state management tools for horizontal and vertical scaling.
• Optimizes code and/or systems for large-scale data processing in large-scale systems.
• Reviews implementation of team members for scalability requirements.
• Leverages data plane platforms for large-scale data retrieval, storage, and processing.
• Implements performance and load testing.
• System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:
• Collaborates with team to build fault-tolerant components with redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.
• Applies recovery-oriented computing principles to design components that handle service disruptions.
• Implements retry mechanisms, circuit breakers, and timeouts to handle network unreliability.
• System Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:
• Implements tests and alarm configurations to proactively detect and address issues/failures.
• Supports recovery efforts by drafting and executing runbooks and operational procedures.
• Buils and customizes dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to monitor component health.
• System Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:
• Designs and implements functional requirements and testing for assigned features within an existing system.
• Implements fault-injection and brown-out scenarios to evaluate system correctness.
• Implements standard data replication and synchronization techniques to maintain data integrity and availability.
• Operational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:
• Diagnoses, debugs, and resolves issues in system components to support ongoing operation.
• Implements basic strategies to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.
• Designs and implements automation scripts and tooling used to troubleshoot operational issues.
• Participates in operational support rotations, assisting in incident responses and root cause investigations.
• Compliance & Security:
• Applies advanced security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, including encryption and access controls.
• Implements remediation plans to continuously improve security.
• Collaborates with the team to ensure cloud infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards and regulations and that documentation is up-to-date.
• Automation & Change Management:
• Maintains automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) for managing cloud infrastructure.
• Adheres to change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications.
• Planning & Execution:
• Tracks timelines with minimal supervision, ensuring work is completed in a timely manner and is in alignment with project requirements.
• Prioritizes and adjusts work as resources or timelines change, with some guidance.
• Collaboration & Partnership:
• Collaborates across teams to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Builds and maintains a comprehensive understanding of business, stakeholder, and/or customer needs to build and support effective partnerships.
• Actively listens to diverse perspectives and asks questions to ensure understanding of others.
• Problem Solving:
• Identifies and addresses standard and non-standard issues in accordance with standard practices, escalating more complex issues as appropriate.
• Analyzes data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot standard and non-standard errors.
• Continuous Learning:
• Embraces continuous learning by actively seeking to build knowledge and new skills and/or tools, and staying current with industry trends and best practices.
• Sets and achieves personal goals for professional development.
• Seeks out and leverages feedback and training to improve skills.
• Contributes to a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing with team members.
• Continuous Improvement:
• Develops ideas and recommends updates to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.
• Sets and achieves personal goals for professional development.
• Seeks input from team members on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.