Software Development Engineer

About This Role

We are looking for an ambitious, experienced, driven and solution orientated individual with experience and expertise in YugabyteDB. You will be an integral part of our product and platform development team, collaborating with multiple teams to deliver high-quality and highly scalable products.

Requirements

• 6+ years of medium to large scale server-side software development experience.
• Experience in working with databases, specifically YugabyteDB, at scale (distributed setup).
• Strong working knowledge of a backend programming language like Clojure and Java in production.
• In-depth knowledge of CS concepts like data structures and time complexity of algorithms.
• Experience of designing and architecting complex systems.
• Experience with benchmarking systems for performance, and failure detection.
• Knowledge of Posix compliant operating systems (we develop on Mac OS X and deploy on GNU/Linux).
• Comfortable using CLI tools for achieving day-to-day tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to issue resolution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with coaching and mentoring peers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop product features that are delivered to 820M monthly active users and can scale to 100K+ RPS.
• Take complete ownership of business driven data management in our primary live database YugabyteDB.
• Identify the gaps and optimize database usage across the product.
• Work with Infrastructure teams to

maintain the database clusters (primarily YugabyteDB).

stabilize and scale the database infrastructure across the organisation.

• Occasionally lead cross-team projects and collaborate with developers, QAs, and other departments.
• Review others’ code and design.
• Ensure best practices for software development are followed by the team.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding processes.
• Keep calm and learn every day.

Nice to Have

• Strong knowledge of functional programming is a plus (we use Clojure).
• Exposure to project management and related tools.

Benefits

• Hybrid setup
• Worker's insurance
• Paid Time Offs
• Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India.