Senior Backend Engineer, Kentik
Platform Engineering - Network Data
$177-240k
+ Stock options
Network observability, security, and performance
Be an early applicant
Network observability, security, and performance
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$177-240k
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide clients with an infrastructure visibility solution to make their business-critical operations run seamlessly.
Role
Who you are
- We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, and a high level of independence and autonomy
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using Go, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, and high-throughput data pipelines
- Experience building scalable REST/gRPC APIs and Kafka-based streaming pipelines is a plus
- Experience in network management or network data analytics
- Basic understanding of network observability topics like IPFIX/Netflow/sflow, SNMP, IP (v4/v6) allocation, BGP, DNS, etc and the network domain and use cases
- A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team
- Strong collaboration skills
- We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
What the job involves
- Kentik's Platform Engineering group is responsible for storing, enriching, and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the world's largest networks. Our platform actively monitors infrastructure, triggers automated responses to outages and attacks, and is critical to delivering complete network observability to our customers. Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. The scale that this group services is tremendous
- Platform Engineering consists of 4 teams; (1) Ingest and Storage, (2) Query, (3) Network Data, (4) SRE. As a senior engineer in platform engineering on the Network Data Team, you will have the opportunity to co-own, design, and scale a high-performance, data-intensive platform that processes the network monitoring data from the most influential companies on the internet
- Our Network Data Team is seeking an experienced backend engineer to scale our network data observability portions of our platform. You will work closely with customer service, product, and other engineering teams to develop new network data observability features
- Work as an Individual Contributor to improve our network data observability services to meet customer demands
- Collaborate with other engineer teams, support, and sales teams
- Work on high-visibility, challenging engineering problems
- Our tech stack:
- Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
- We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
- We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
- In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
- Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
- Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
- Github for source control, PRs, issues
- Jenkins for automated builds
Our take
The rise in internet use has resulted in an often unmanageable amount of network traffic across websites, data centers, and most recently cloud services. The resulting mass of information from this is problematic to interpret and thus difficult to use for troubleshooting and engagement insights.
Kentik provides an integrated network monitoring dashboard for enterprises that helps provide visual data illustrations and insights based on traffic. This allows administrators to identify bottlenecks in their networks, whilst providing opportunities to provide cyber protection and monitor customer experiences.
The Kentik dashboard’s approach to network management is unique due to its focus on the visualization of information. This allows insights regarding network limitations and bottlenecks to be understandable and manageable to enterprises regardless of whether staff has knowledge in networking data.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$23.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $101.7m
Company benefits
- Dental and vision insurance
- Parental leave
- Stock options
- Flexible paid time off
- 401k plan
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Avi Freedman
(CEO)Avi started their career as a Systems Administrator at United Engineers and Constructors, prior to spending 10 years as CEO of Netaxs Internet Services. They founded readnews.com and left their role as CTO of ServerCentral to co-found Kentik in January 2014.
Justin Biegel
(COO)Justin spent almost 4 years as VP of Business Development at InvisbleHand Networks before working as a University of Maryland Researcher for 2 years. After 3 years at Internap, they co-founded Kentik 2014 and serve as COO.
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