Sr. to Lead Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Infrastructure Startup

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Sr. to Lead Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Infrastructure Startup Location:  Remote

The company can hire engineers from mid to senior to lead level (managing 3-5 people).

You would be working remotely.

The company is founded by leading minds in the container and Kubernetes space. The company's product is for medium to large enterprises and involves distributed systems, infrastructure, cluster optimization, and Kubernetes. It makes infrastructure more efficient.

The company has about 17 employees (mostly engineers) and is planning to grow to 50 employees in the next 8 months.

The company will pay competitive salary plus equity which could be very lucrative.

Job Responsibilities:
 
- Mostly programming in Go (80-90%), some Python. Experience with Go is nice to have, not required.

- Designing and implementing product features.

- Engaging in and improving the lifecycle of services from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.

- Engaging in the overall design process including system design, capacity planning, and pre-/post-launch reviews.

- Maintaining services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.

  Qualifications:

- Solid experience with distributed systems.

- Experience with (or passion for) Kubernetes.

- A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

- Strong in either: 1) Go / Golang, 2) C++, 3) C, or 4) Java or Rust or Scala or C#. Willing to learn (if necessary) and primarily use Go.

Nice to have:

- Experience with Go / Golang.

- Experience in Unix/Linux operating systems internals, including file systems, system calls, etc.

- Experience with networking, including TCP/IP, routing, load-balancing, etc.

- Experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems.

- Hands-on operational experience with a container orchestration framework such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Nomad, etc.

- Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Pulumi.

- Experience designing and developing software for automation of systems.

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