Description
We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer - III (DB Specialist - YugabyteDB) to join our product and platform development team. As a key member, you will collaborate with multiple teams to deliver high-quality and highly scalable products.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop product features that serve 820M monthly active users and scale to 100K+ RPS.
- Take ownership of business-driven data management in our primary live database YugabyteDB.
- Identify gaps and optimize database usage across the product.
- Work with Infrastructure teams to maintain database clusters, primarily YugabyteDB.
- Stabilize and scale the database infrastructure across the organization.
- 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.
Requirements
- 6+ years of medium to large-scale server-side software development experience.
- Experience working with databases, specifically YugabyteDB, at scale (distributed setup).
- Strong working knowledge of backend programming languages like Clojure and Java in production.
- In-depth knowledge of CS concepts like data structures and time complexity of algorithms.
- Experience designing and architecting complex systems.
- Experience with benchmarking systems for performance and failure detection.
- Knowledge of Posix compliant operating systems.
- Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and 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).
Nice to Have
- Strong knowledge of functional programming (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.