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Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Capacity Modeling)

4 days, 1 hour ago
United States
Full-time
Lead
Software Engineer
Software Development
Apache Spark AWS DynamoDB Kotlin Kubernetes MySQL Python
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Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2012
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Description

  • Set the technical strategy for the team on a year-long time horizon and align it to business-critical projects.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics across the product development lifecycle to manage technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Act as a force multiplier by defining and advocating for technical solutions and operational processes.
  • Own team operations and service availability through monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
  • Establish code review and design standards, and promote them through writing and tech talks.
  • Develop talent by giving feedback, providing guidance, and leading by example.
  • Build and maintain statistical capacity models that convert traffic forecasts into capacity recommendations.
  • Translate demand inputs into infrastructure settings such as pod counts, HPA ranges, and regional or environment sizing changes.
  • Work across compute and infrastructure services including ElasticCache, DynamoDB, AuroraDB, and related systems.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
  • Extensive experience building highly available distributed systems with technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
  • Experience supporting scale up and down for large-scale sales events such as Prime Day, Black Friday Cyber Monday, or similar holidays.
  • Experience tuning autoscaling, CPU/memory, and multi-threading for compute workloads.
  • Experience delivering major features, system components, or deprecating existing functionality through a technical and execution plan.
  • Ability to write high-quality code that is easy for others to understand and use.
  • Comfort working in ambiguity and moving between low-level language details and large-system architecture.
  • Strong ability to gather, iterate on, and incorporate feedback from engineering and cross-functional peers.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for collaboration with a global engineering team.
  • Equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work with the flexibility to work almost anywhere within the country of employment.
  • Competitive base salary of $225,000-$275,000 in CA/WA/NY/NJ/CT or $200,000-$250,000 in other U.S. states.
  • Potential equity rewards as part of total compensation.
  • Monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending.
  • 100% subsidized medical coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Dental and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
  • Flexible Spending Wallets for technology, food, lifestyle needs, and family-forming expenses.
  • Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
  • Employee stock purchase plan with shares available at a discount.

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