Senior Software Engineer

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering 

Job Overview:  

The Senior Software Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware. 

Job Description Summary:

Elevate Your Career in MultiValue (MV) Application Server Development

Are you ready to revolutionize database? We're on the lookout for dynamic engineers to join our MV Application Server (MVAS) development team. MVAS, the fusion of an embedded database and a powerful development platform, brings together the best of traditional database management with the innovation and performance demanded by today’s applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• You will own different components of the product, according to project needs that correspond to your background and interests.
• Your primary responsibilities are fixing customer issues and developing new features.
• You will also be responsible for creating specifications and documentation for proof-of-concept, architecture, design, testing etc.
• You have to have strong problem-solving skills and be good at debugging and troubleshooting issues.
• You are expected to be a team player, domestically and internationally, who can identify opportunities and bring concerns to the team, and lead resolution efforts.
• Review and provide feedback on designs.
• Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component.
• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns.
• Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables.
• Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture.
• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team.
• Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities.
• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain.
• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management
• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help
• Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks
• Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target
• Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues
• Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns
• Willingness to teach and grow junior team members
• Excellent listening skills
• Effectively works within the team and across teams
• Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers
• Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again
• Follows through on all tasks
• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes
• Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members

Required Qualifications:  

• Perfect knowledge of C/C++ programming languages.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience 
• Proficient in C/C++ debugging tools.
• Able to write high-quality code rapidly.  
• Proficiency in operating systems, encompassing memory management, process/thread management, network programming, file I/O, file systems, system libraries, APIs (POSIX), networking, and security.
• Understanding of fundamental algorithms, including Searching, Sorting, and Hashing.
• Familiarity with commonly used data structures such as Queue, Linked Lists, Hash Tables, and Trees.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Background support in multi-value database
• Experience in database kernel development. Proficiency in operating system kernel-level diagnostic tools, showcasing the ability to diagnose and locate complex issues at the OS kernel level.
• In-depth knowledge of fundamental database concepts, covering ACID properties, indexing techniques, query optimization, execution plans, transactions, and concurrency control, particularly in the context of high availability and disaster recovery.
• Capability in software architecture, with the ability to independently design and develop new features.
• Understanding of compiler design principles.
• Familiarity with other programming languages or technologies, such as Python, Java, HTTP protocols, client-server architecture, RPC, XML, and JSON.

• Job Family Group: Engineering 

• Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering 

• Job Profile Name: Senior Software Engineer  

• Employee Type:Individual Contributor  

• Job Level: P4 (Advanced)