Senior Software Engineer, Pluralsight
Python/Node
$144.4-190k
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Technology workforce development company
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Technology workforce development company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$144.4-190k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inspire and empower the tech workforce to achieve their goals.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with information retrieval systems (e.g. Algolia, Elasticsearch)
- Experience with various components of a search pipeline such as query understanding, matching, and relevance
- Experience with streaming data (e.g. Kafka)
- Ability to discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences
- We value deep expertise and practical application. This role typically aligns with 8+ years of relevant experience, or 6+ years with an advanced degree. We encourage you to apply if you have equivalent practical experience that demonstrates your ability to succeed in this role
- You have experience building software with Python, TypeScript (Node), and Postgres
- You have experience designing and building public or shared APIs
- Experience delivering software frequently, and building robust deployment pipelines
- You understand and can navigate complex issues around application performance, reliability, scalability, security, and data integrity
- You have demonstrated that you are a strong collaborator, a trusted teammate, and are skilled at resolving conflict
- Demonstrated the skills of a high-proficiency, senior engineer through delivery but also mentorship of others
What the job involves
- Discovery serves as a fundamental pillar of our platform, enabling users to explore everything from specific queries to new content
- Joining the Search Backend team as a Senior Software Engineer, you will be instrumental in ingesting and delivering content to a variety of platform experiences
- Our team is looking for a driven, innovative engineer who is excited to lead experimentation for the Search algorithm and has extensive experience building stable, production-level products rooted in core engineering principles
- You are eager to tackle the complexities of a search backend, from content ingestion to optimizing core metrics through Algolia feature utilization and experimental testing
- You drive healthy team discussion. You bring thought-provoking questions and identify paint points while still contributing to psychological safety. These discussions lead to powerful learnings and action items for the entire team
- You value the contributions of those around you and while you regularly provide valuable engineering leadership, you also embrace opportunities to let other team members lead and make decisions
- You collaborate and decide on solutions with your team rather than dictate solutions to them. You value finding that ideal solution that balances the technical needs of the system with the strategic needs of the business. You facilitate discussions around trade offs
- Delivering to customers energizes you and your drive inspires those around you. You feel a pragmatic urgency around delivering value to customers and see how engineering excellence unlocks our ability to deliver
- Own Pluralsight’s Search backend system
- Manage a system-critical, reliable, and scalable product - uptime and response time matter
- You will work closely with the entire team (including Product, Design, Dev Ops, etc.) to build products with powerful impact
- You will work as a team to design, implement, and analyze experiments
- You play a key role in the consumption and production of data across the platform, interfacing with many teams at Pluralsight
- You will take part in the team’s on-call rotation, resolving alerts and taking ownership in implementing improvements
- This role is primarily performed in an office or home office setting and involves standard computer-based work
Our take
Pluralsight is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap, a mission that has become increasingly urgent as industries worldwide face a growing shortage of IT talent. This high demand for upskilling makes Pluralsight's online training services more relevant than ever.
Founded in 2004, Pluralsight has matured into a prominent player in the online upskilling industry. The company has seen significant growth in recent years, capitalising on the surge in demand before many competing startups emerged. Despite facing competition from major players like Grow with Google and Udemy, Pluralsight has maintained its strong position.
Though Vista Equity Partners' 2021 acquisition has brought some challenges, Pluralsight, once a unicorn startup now a public company, continues to thrive. With numerous partnerships with NGOs, educational institutions, and corporations, Pluralsight remains a key player in tackling the tech skills shortage.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2016
$30m
SERIES C
Aug 2014
$135m
SERIES B
Total funding: $195m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Summer Fridays
- Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Medical, Dental and Vision
Company HQ
Draper, UT
Leadership
Aaron Skonnard
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked as a DevelopMentor Author, and was President of Skonnard Consulting. In 2004, left a Neumont University Associate Professorship to co-found Pluralsight.
Fritz Onion
(Co-Founder & Content Advisor)Started as an Oracle Software Engineer after a degree at Harvard, and then spent 10 years as a DevelopMentor Instructor. Subsequently co-founded Pluralsight in April 2004, serving as Content Advisor.
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