Distributed Systems Software Engineer - WarpStream

WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It's delivered to customers as a BYOC-style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you'll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi-tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active-active multi-regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console.

We're a small team of

- Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.

- Build mission-critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services.

- Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.

- Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers.

- 5+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation

- Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc

- Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems

- Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services

- A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success

- Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems

- Hands-on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems