Staff Backend Engineer, Kentik
Network Monitoring System
$184-249k
+ Stock options
Network observability, security, and performance
Be an early applicant
Network observability, security, and performance
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$184-249k
+ 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
- While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, as well as a high level of independence and autonomy
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Experience driving technical direction for teams, leading small teams, and mentoring across all experience levels
- Passion for what you do and a willingness to grow and contribute our team
- Experience designing and building network observability agents
- Knowledge of key technologies for network infrastructure monitoring, including SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, OpenConfig/YANG, and NetFlow
- Deep experience working on large scale SaaS products
- Experience with Go and understanding of Go design patterns and concurrency
- SQL and DBMS proficiency, especially with Postgres
What the job involves
- Kentik is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to play a high-visibility, leadership role on a team building a new product in the network monitoring system (NMS) space
- This team is responsible for bringing the deep visibility Kentik is known for into network infrastructure
- Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day
- You will gain experience building a production quality, high performance server-and-client SaaS application that handles uniquely high volumes of data
- We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one
- You will be a technical leader on multiple aspects of the product, including data collection, ingestion, analysis, query, and alerting in collaboration with groups across the engineering organization
- Lead challenging, highly visible, strategic initiatives
- Develop new features, performance improvements and bug fixes in a modern, highly-scalable SaaS platform
- Provide thought leadership in the design and architecture of our product offerings
- Drive engineering culture from interview process and onboarding to methodologies and best practices
- Collaborate with other engineering teams - as well as PM, support, and sales teams
- 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 values
- The truth is in the traffic
- The network matters more than ever
- It’s not just your own network anymore
- Business context is critical
- Modern networks require a modern approach
- Network teams can be enterprise rock stars
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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