Senior Software Developer

Summary

Join High Tech Genesis as a Golang Software Developer to contribute to an existing telecom application used by thousands globally. This role offers a fantastic learning opportunity and collaboration with leading experts in networking technologies. You will add features to the application, working with a mix of Golang and Python. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of software development experience, expertise in distributed systems, and a strong understanding of low-level languages like C. You will need experience with Agile development, testing, and database queries. Bonus skills include Golang development, Kubernetes, and network service experience.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software development experience
• Experience working with Agile development processes
• Experience in distributed systems
• Understanding of challenges with lost, delayed, or duplicated messages and how to handle them in code
• Experience writing appropriate tests to discover corner cases and performance bottlenecks
• 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. Should be able to own a feature, work along other team members on the high-level design, and successfully drive the feature to completion, including data migration, testing and deploy to green and brownfield deployments
• 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
• Able to contribute to code reviews looking for potential/hidden problems in the code. Look for corner cases / "what if" scenarios on the code under review

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain features for an existing telecom application
• Work with Agile development processes
• Design, develop, and implement features for a large-scale distributed system
• Write code that handles lost, delayed, or duplicated messages
• Write comprehensive tests to identify corner cases and performance bottlenecks
• Understand the memory and performance implications of API calls and data structures
• Own features from design to deployment, including data migration and testing
• Work with a low-level language (e.g., C)
• Understand the basic operation of network devices
• Write SQL and Cypher database queries
• Work with REST and gRPC APIs (OpenAPI and protocol buffers)
• Contribute to code reviews
• Write small scripts/tools to improve workflow

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