Software Engineer

Summary

Join Readyset, a company building a database cache, as a Software Engineer. You will design and build parts of the cloud platform, focusing on distributed systems and database expertise. Responsibilities include building production-level code, collaborating with a growing team, and contributing to process improvements. The ideal candidate has 2+ years of software engineering experience, backend focus, Python and AWS experience, and a Bachelor's degree in a related field. Readyset offers a competitive salary ($160,000 - $210,000 USD), equity, excellent benefits, unlimited PTO, and paid parental leave. The company values continuous learning, healthy collaboration, safety to fail, and diversity and inclusion.

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Backend engineering focus
• Experience with Python and AWS
• Experience working on Distributed Systems, Database Systems and Cloud based Services
• Experience with service-oriented architectures
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Build a significant portion of the system hands-on while also guiding others to make sound engineering choices in design and code
• Architect and build robust, scalable, supportable, and manageable systems
• Use your speech and written communication proficiency to influence others and establish engineering processes and guidelines
• Interact with leaders and colleagues across the company and work collaboratively on projects
• Blog about and evangelize the amazing engineering systems you and your colleagues are building
• Iterate on and build production-level code with a growing user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
• Work cross-functionally to help scope out product requirements, respond to new customer needs, and develop code to solve complex problems
• Collaborate with other team members to contribute to process improvements, give product and architectural feedback, and work towards making Readyset more robust and feature-complete

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with building Cloud Native solutions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
• Exposure to building a traditional machine learning system or a service that uses public or self-hosted LLM models

Benefits

• Salary range: $160,000 - $210,000 USD per year
• Equity
• Top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO (with minimum vacation recommendations)
• 90 days of paid parental leave
• Team off-sites & conferences
• Virtual game hours
• Internal tech talk series