Lead Software Engineer (Distributed Systems)

• One of the components of this infrastructure that helps achieve the global scale involves network software that provides optimized and secure connectivity - between our customers and the application, between our data centers and customer applications
• The Connectivity and Edge teams are responsible for delivering many of the complex software products that deliver this experience to our customers
• As our service and platform grow to fully embrace lights-out operations, single-click deploy to tens of thousands of nodes, and services that self-heal and self-optimize, we have to balance this with global scale and traffic distribution to enhance our end user experience
• Edge is hiring a backend Java engineer with distributed systems, micro-services, and public cloud experience to support this growth
• The role will lead the design, development, testing, and operations of both the Edge Control plane service and the Edge Intelligence service
• The Edge Control plane automates Edge enablement for our customers. Edge Intelligence provides Real-time analytics capabilities which is used to self-heal and self-optimize Edge and Connectivity services

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

• Experience using telemetry and metrics to drive operational excellence
• Experience owning and operating multiple instances of mission-critical infrastructure services including, monitoring, alerting, logging, and reporting applications
• Experience with container orchestration systems Kubernetes, Docker, Helios, Fleet or Mesos
• Resolve complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Experience with managing large, complex systems in the cloud
• 10+ years of engineering experience
• Capable of driving and delivering thin slices of functionality on a regular cadence with data-driven feedback loops in an agile environment
• Eat, sleep, and breathe services. You’ll have experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Create, maintain and share technical documentation used by engineers and other team members
• Deep knowledge of object oriented programming and experience with at least one object oriented programming language, preferably Java
• Public cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, Alibaba and/or Azure platforms
• Be passionate about automation
• Solid knowledge of Database technologies
• Experience with Agile development methodology and Testing
• In depth experience of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrency
• Experience designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems
• Excited by building reliable, self-healing services on unreliable hardware
• SOAP/REST APIs and general API design
• Experience with open source projects
• Experience with Big data technologies like Spark, Kafka, Druid
• Knowledge of network technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS termination, HTTP proxies, etc
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins

• End Date: January 25, 2027