Software Engineer, Core

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OneSignal

πŸ’΅ $190k-$210k
πŸ“Remote - United States

Summary

Join OneSignal, a leading omnichannel customer engagement solution, as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to the design, development, and operation of cross-cutting horizontal services. You will collaborate with fellow engineers, optimize high-performance databases, participate in code reviews, resolve production issues, conduct data analysis, and stay updated on industry trends. This remote-friendly role offers autonomy, flexibility, and the opportunity to significantly impact the platform's performance and features. The position requires at least 8 years of software engineering experience, expertise in optimizing high-performance databases, and experience with distributed systems. OneSignal offers a competitive salary, equity program, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years experience working as a software engineer
  • Significant experience optimizing high performance databases such as Postgres, ScyllaDB, Cassandra or related at scale
  • Experience operating reliable production systems at scale
  • Easily bored running tasks by hand and the ability to automate such tasks
  • Experience with distributed system event streaming framework such as Apache Kafka
  • Experience with Rust, Golang or other lower level languages. Those with backgrounds in interpreted languages may have a steeper learning curve with Rust, but if you have worked on core components of very high throughput systems, please apply
  • Ability to reason about how data flows through distributed systems
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with fellow engineers to architect and implement services required to back OneSignal’s product offerings
  • Help optimize a scaling strategy for our high performance Postgres and Scylla clusters
  • Design and optimize schemas, queries, indices, caches and more across Postgres and Scylla
  • Actively participate in peer code reviews and Technical Design Spec reviews, providing valuable technical insights to continuously improve our code base
  • Work with the team to efficiently resolve production issues and ensure the system scales smoothly to meet the growing demands of our customers
  • Conduct data analysis and performance monitoring to identify areas for optimization and enhancement
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, incorporating new ideas into our engineering processes
  • Participate in production on-call rotation
  • Ability to work independently in uncertainty and drive multiple experiments to arrive at a solution to unblock business and customer operations
  • Debug production issues by utilizing metrics, logs, and distributed traces
  • Design synchronous and asynchronous APIs for communicating between services in a large distributed system

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with any of Redis, Kafka, ClickHouse, gRPC
  • Experience profiling applications to improve performance in terms of time/CPU/memory
  • Experience debugging issues in distributed systems

Benefits

  • Competitive equity program
  • Comprehensive and inclusive benefits
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