Senior Software Engineer

TXSE

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-15 years of software engineering experience with a clear growth trajectory.
  • Proven ability in high-pressure production environments with significant uptime requirements.
  • Experience reasoning through complex systems with multiple moving parts.
  • Highly productive and effective in ambiguous situations.
  • Expert proficiency in C++, preferably C++20 or newer.
  • Willingness to learn Rust and apply it in development.
  • Professional experience in both Linux and Windows environments.

Responsibilities

  • Build and launch core product for enterprise customers in the first three months.
  • Transition initial product to proprietary, high-performance infrastructure in six months.
  • Architect and create compute dense analytics infrastructure within the first year.
  • Ensure robust system performance by debugging and optimizing multi-threaded applications.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams on system design and deployment.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and increased responsibility.
  • Work on cutting-edge technologies and challenging projects.
  • Autonomy in project ownership and decision-making.
  • Collaborative environment focusing on building a world-class platform.
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who thrives in complexity, values intellectual rigor over optics and possesses the grit to build a world-class platform from the ground up.

This is for the Engineer who wants to own a domain and deliver results that matter.

Required Experience

  • Earned Progression: You have 5 to 15 years of experience demonstrating a clear trajectory of growth and increasing responsibility.
  • Battle Tested: You have experience supporting high pressure production environments where downtime has significant consequences.
  • Systems Reasoning: A proven ability to navigate and reason through massive system complexity with many moving parts at high speed.
  • Autonomous: You are highly productive, even in ambiguous situations and/or environments. You problem solve quickly and get things done.


Required Technologies

  • C++: You have expert proficiency with C++ (ideally C++ 20 or newer).
  • Rust: Willingness to learn and/or build with Rust.
  • OS Versatility: You have professional experience developing and debugging in Linux and Windows environments.
  • Multi-threading
  • SOA: Strong understanding of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and distributed systems.


Desired Technologies and Skills

  • Low level systems: Knowledge of system bus, memory hierarchy and CPU architecture.
  • Data and messaging: Experience with streaming or message bus systems such as Kafka, NATS, Redis or Valkey.
  • Networking: Solid understanding of networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, etc).
  • Tooling: Experience with performance and debug tooling (e.g. Valgrind, strace, perf, GDB).
  • Cloud Infrastructure: General AWS knowledge (Load balancers, VPCs, networking "nuts and bolts").
  • Modern Orchestration: Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, ECS, containerd).
  • Architecture Design: Deep knowledge of design patterns and scalable system architecture.
  • Remote Debugging: SSH and remote Linux debugging capabilities.


Projects You Will Work On in Year One

  • First Three Months
    • You will help build, harden and launch our first core product for our first tier of enterprise customers.
  • First Six Months
    • You will help transition our initial product onto fully proprietary and high-performance infrastructure.
  • First Year
    • You will help architect and build our compute dense analytics infrastructure.

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