Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Liftoff's Production Engineering team as we shape the future of product delivery. You'll immerse yourself in a data-rich environment where your expertise will directly influence the enhancement of developer workflows, ensuring that every product and feature we release is not only reliable and efficient but also resonates with scale.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience, or MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience, or equivalent
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms
• An incredible desire for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices. 
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads
• Experience managing MongoDB in-house
• Experience in using Infrastructure as Code to manage / provision resources
• Experience building monitoring for modern microservice architectures
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success
• Good at English (speaking, reading and writing)

Responsibilities

• Have end-to-end ownership to one of Liftoff's core backend infrastructure, including large scale real-time data processing pipelines and high-performance front end servers
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue
• Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems and code review
• Become an expert in cutting-edge open source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD and etc) that maximize software development velocity
• Architect, build and maintain infrastructure reliability of large scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
• You will share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems that are owned and managed by the team
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members

Benefits

• Health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence
• Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience
• Toronto/Vancouver: 125,000 -150,000 CAD
• Other Canadian locations: 112,500 - 135,000 CAD