Senior Software Engineer (Remote)

Zipstack is redefining how organizations access and deal with data. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who will contribute individually to software development, focusing on writing clean and maintainable code while tackling engineering challenges in an early-stage startup environment.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the problem from architects and writing clean, maintainable and testable code
• Help customers access data no matter where it resides, live and in-place
• Balance robust governance, access control, security and auditing
• Own everything from end-to-end: from development to running Mesh in production for real customers with massive amounts of data

Requirements:

• Mastery of whichever programming language you've used mostly in your career
• Experience working on highly scalable web services
• Experience having dealt with handling / processing large amounts of data at least nearing TB scale
• Comfortable working in a DevOps culture where you own production environments. You should be comfortable with DevOps-related technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. Else, you should be open to pick up modern DevOps-related technologies
• Should be able to write testable code with delivery including a significant portion of it covered with unit tests. The practice of TDD is highly desirable
• Sufficient understanding of the underlying operating system enough to aid in debugging various issues, but especially performance-related issues
• Comfort in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of basic principles of security: authentication, authorization, encryption, PKI, etc
• Good understanding of RDBMs, some NoSQL databases usage
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Highly collaborative with and between teams
• Experience with Java is highly desirable, though not essential. You must be open to switching to Java
• Experience with Python is highly desirable
• Comfort working with a microservices-based architecture
• Experience with Spark, Presto, Flink, Hadoop
• Experience with Apache Airflow
• Experience building ETL pipelines
• Experience with NoSQL and relational databases at scale