Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join High Tech Genesis as a Golang Software Developer to contribute to an existing telecom application used globally by thousands. This full-time remote position (Canada) offers a fantastic learning opportunity to work with leading networking technology experts. You will add features to the application, requiring experience in distributed systems, low-level languages (like C), and Agile development. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving skills, understands network device operations, and can work autonomously to deliver features from design to deployment. This role requires proficiency in Golang and Python, along with database and API knowledge. Bonus skills include experience with Kubernetes, containerization, and various network technologies.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience working with Agile development processes
• Experience in distributed systems
• Understand challenges with lost, delayed, or duplicated messages and how code needs to be written to deal with that
• Experience understanding memory and performance and reliability consequences on choosing a given API call (sync vs async) or a data structure over another
• Reasonable degree of autonomy
• Experience in a low-level language (for example C)
• Understanding of how network devices operate
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL / Cypher database queries
• Knowledge of REST and gRPC APIs: OpenAPI and protocol buffers
• The engineer should have a 'can do' attitude
• Should understand how different systems and technologies can operate together to produce the correct outcome

Responsibilities

• Add features to an existing telecom-based application
• Work with other team members on the high-level design
• Successfully drive the feature to completion, including data migration, testing and deploy to green and brownfield deployments
• Write appropriate test to discover corner cases and performance bottlenecks
• Contribute to code reviews looking for potential/hidden problems in the code
• Look for corner cases / "what if" scenarios on the code under review
• Write small scripts/tools to improve the workflow as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing production quality level code and test cases in Golang
• Practical knowledge about Kubernetes, building container images (docker, kaniko, ko)
• Experience with brokers or other pubsub technologies: Knative, kafka, Redis streams, etc
• Experience building network services in NSO (YANG models, callbacks)
• Experience building network monitoring services (SNMP, Netconf, Restconf)
• Experience building VPN network services using EVPN, QinQ or other VPN/tunneling technologies
• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry
• Experience writing K6 performance validation tests