Staff Software Engineer, Platform at Smarsh in Remote

Staff Software Engineer, Platform

The PaaS (Platform as a Service) team is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team and help build our 1CP product (1 Cloud Platform). We are building a best in class platform that is used by Smarsh engineering teams to build, deliver, scale, operate, and secure applications across multiple IaaS and multiple cloud vendors.

Qualifications

• Expertise and broad range of programming/scripting experience (i.e. Java, Python, Ruby, Go, etc.).
• Strong background in managing code with Git.
• Experience managing continuous integration systems (Pivotal Concourse).
• Experience with automated configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Chef, etc.).
• Background working in a multi-platform environment (Linux, Windows.).
• Experience with builds and packaging in a Linux/Java environment strongly preferred (Maven, rpm, etc.).
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Experience building and operating Pivotal Platform.
• Experience with Elastics, S3, Ceph, Minio, and MongoDB data storage solutions.
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, and other messaging systems.
• Experience leading small teams’ ceremonies (i.e. stand-ups, retros, and planning).
• Leadership with mentorship and educating less experienced engineers.

Members of the PaaS team practice and advocate for the following principle and methodologies:

• Continuous Improvement
• 12 Factor Apps
• Behavior Driven Development
• Test Driven Development
• DRY
• SOLID Design

Essential Functions

• Attend and actively participate in team ceremonies (stand-ups, retros, and planning meetings).
• Coordinate efforts with globally dispersed teams.
• Document decisions regarding technology choices, best practices and process.
• Manage code bases using Smarsh engineering practices.
• Creatively solve problems in the SaaS Operations space, collaborating with SRE, Data Services, Delivery, and Engineering team members.
• Design and develop tools and libraries for broader use by SaaS Operations and Engineering teams.
• Design and develop high volume data pipelines, in large distributed systems
• Design and develop complex event-driven systems, with DDD/BDD workflows
• Actively change code within current production systems to resolve incidents and/or enhance operational performance, following Engineering process for code change.
• Lead and actively engage in architectural conversations and plans.
• Regularly pair with other Platform Engineers to develop tools and libraries and facilitate learning and best practices.
• Lead and actively engage in projects to implement enhancements to SaaS Operations and Smarsh products.

Education and Experience

• 5-7 years industry experience
• BS in CS or equivalent