Our Distinguished Engineer works across teams to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the database platform domain.
Position Responsibilities
As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:
· Focus on our most valuable projects and provide technical leadership to the enterprise
· Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
· Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
· Be accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
· Utilize programming languages like Python, Golang, Java or other languages
· Be intimately familiar with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including one or more of PostgreSQL, SQLServer, Oracle, Cassandra and TiDB.
· Have a deep understanding of container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
· Build and operate containerized database workloads at scale
· Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
· Influence and educate leadership at all levels
· Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
· Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
· Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
Qualifications
· You are customer-centric, always keeping the customer’s experience at the forefront of the conversation
· You are transparent and decisive. You have a prejudice for action and an iterative approach to software
· You learn from your mistakes and pass the knowledge on to others
· Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, C++, Golang or Python
· Experience building products in a micro-services-oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
· Experience with the architecture and design of greenfield and legacy systems (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
· Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
· Fluency in DevOps concepts, cloud architecture, GitHub and Azure DevOps Operational Framework
· Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments, specifically using Grafana and Prometheus
· Experience in security protocols and products: understanding of LDAP, SAML and OAuth
· In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
· Experience with solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
· Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
· Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
· Proficient in HA database architecture and tools
Experience
· 12+ years of professional experience in software development, programming languages and database infrastructure, installation, configuration and maintenance of the hardware, software, and network systems
· 10+ years of experience with architecture and design
· 6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
· 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience