Staff Software Engineer - Notifications Platform

October 2, 2024

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Video Games • Text Chat • VOIP

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2015

🎮 Gaming

🌍 Social Impact

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $12G Venture Round on 2022-03

📋 Description

• Building a platform that consolidates methods of sending notifications to our users • Defining the technical and functional requirements of the platform • Instrumenting services to establish a robust data collection pipeline • Scaling processes to handle hundreds of millions of users efficiently and reliably • Coaching and mentoring other engineers, enabling their development

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems. • Genuine interest and enthusiasm in solving complex technical problems, investigating regressions, and finding ways to improve our systems' performance. • Strong understanding of observability and monitoring. • Flexibility in undefined environments and excitement about devising solutions for complex technical challenges. • Familiarity with reading and writing code in large existing codebases. • Demonstrated capability and empathy when collaborating with other engineering teams to solve issues. • A wide range of experience across many domains and technologies, and a willingness to venture into new ones. • A desire to validate design decisions with data. • Proficiency with Python, Elixir or Rust • Experience deploying scalable services on Kubernetes • Experience working with the GCP Pub/Sub service or other message brokers • Experience working with NoSQL databases (Cassandra, Scylla etc). • You have built or contributed to open source projects.

🏖️ Benefits

• equity • benefits