Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Traffic during holiday peaks can reach ten times normal levels, and the platform is built for it. Our office has a quiet floor and a loud floor.

Job summary

Rudderwater is hiring for the Senior Software Engineer - Platform role on our Integrations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. We are headquartered in Colombo and have been hiring remotely since 2020. We hire in the US through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Responsibilities

• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic
• Mentor junior engineers through pairing and code review
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Review pull requests from teammates and give clear, specific feedback
• Take part in an on-call rotation (roughly one week in six) and help resolve production incidents
• Contribute to postmortems and follow through on the action items

What you need

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Familiarity with Git, pull request workflows and CI tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and basic system design
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line
• Willing to join the on-call rotation once ramped up
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Preferred

• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Prior work at an early-stage startup

Pay: $187,000 - $220,000 a year

What you get

• Co-working space stipend
• Wellness allowance
• Flexible hours
• Company laptop
• Performance bonus
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner
• Paid parental leave

This position requires a background check.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Rudderwater.