Staff Software Engineer, Aiven
+ Participation in Aiven’s equity plan
Open source cloud data management platform
Open for applications
Open source cloud data management platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Participation in Aiven’s equity plan
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Aiven aims to be the world’s leading cloud data platform – by making developer’s lives better.
Role
Who you are
- Good understanding of security in back-end software
- Excellent development skills in Python
- Experience with SQL, RDBMS, and database design
- Experience with using Linux in development and production
- Distributed systems knowledge
- Good understanding of cloud networking
- Hands-on experience with one or more major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Extensive experience in production software environments
- Experience leading complex technical initiatives to completion
- The urge to write automated tests
- Strong understanding of product and business outcomes, with the ability to look beyond the technical aspects to drive value
- Fluency in English, verbal and written
What the job involves
- We’re a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions
- Our vision is to become the trusted Data & AI Platform for everyone, leveraging the most popular open-source technologies like Apache Kafka®, Aiven for PostgreSQL®, Aiven for Clickhouse®, and Aiven for OpenSearch® to help companies accelerate time-to-market, drive efficiency, and build innovative solutions across any cloud
- Right now, we’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team who shares our passion for forward-thinking and innovative approaches
- The Engineering team at Aiven lies at the core of our organization. This is a great opportunity to become an integral member of the team as a Staff Software Engineer
- We look for engineers who can work around problems by finding new angles. Thinking sideways
- You will have the opportunity to collaborate with world-class tech people solving the toughest problems, where almost every project you work on is more complex and technically challenging than the previous one
- If you relish pushing your technical boundaries, come join us. Because if you can truly think sideways, you’ll never look back
- We are hiring an experienced Staff Software Engineer to work on our cloud operations platform, turning the best open-source technologies into frustration-free cloud services
- You’ll be part of a team working on the Aiven cloud platform, improving its scalability and reliability, implementing new features, and extending our product portfolio of open-source data technologies
- We are looking for product-minded engineers who have a keen interest in the business and user behavior, are proactive with product development ideas and tradeoffs, and want to understand the “Why?” behind all things
- As a product-minded engineer you communicate well with engineers and non-engineers alike and are interested in how other functions work
- As a Staff Software Engineer, we expect you to be a bar raiser in multiple dimensions: technical decision making and mentorship, problem solving, experience, and personal output
- Staff engineers are also expected to have a material positive impact outside of your own team
- We’d love you to show us how we can improve what we do
- Our teams are proud of what we build and value curiosity, healthy debate, and exchange of ideas
- Writing high-quality, maintainable code and releasing and monitoring quality features
- Performing peer reviews and participating in technical discussions both at the team level and among the product development engineering domain
- Ensure the backend has strong unit and functional testing coverage
- Advocate for improvements to software quality, security, and performance
- Oversee the design and development of new features from scratch, coordinating initial planning, breaking down tasks for manageable delivery, and tracking progress to ensure timelines and quality goals are met
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional roles, including product managers, designers, technical writers, and front-end engineers, to ensure cohesive, customer-centered product delivery
- Empower peers by sharing knowledge, offering guidance, and setting an example as a role model
Our take
Cloud computing presents massive implications for the way businesses use data, with cloud-based databases ensuring high uptime, frictionless scalability, and simple software integrations. However, achieving this requires setting up cloud databases in the first place, an obstacle that can be incredibly tough and prevent companies from migrating to cloud-based data infrastructure altogether.
Aiven provides an open-source cloud data management platform, allowing users to easily set up cloud databases, access cloud tool integrations, automate data infrastructural management, and control data security within a single platform. The platform integrates directly into open source data services such as Apache Kafka and OpenSearch, supports multi-cloud deployments, and includes built-in compliance, encryption, and end-to-end security features. In 2023, it added AI-powered data optimisation capabilities via its integration of EverSQL's engine into its products.
Whilst various companies are tackling the difficulties of setting up cloud databases, Aiven has smartly taken more of an all-in-one approach, tackling everything from the building and managing of databases to software integrations, multi-cloud hosting, and security. The company claims that its cloud data solutions can massively reduce the amount of time, money, and resources that businesses must spend to migrate to cloud-based data infrastructure.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
May 2022
$210m
SERIES D
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Total funding: $420m
Company benefits
- Stock options for permanent employees
- Training/language courses & Aiven library
- Flexible work/life balance
- Private health and dental care
- Proper equipment to do your job
- Office snacks
Company values
- We are open 💡 Open to any new idea. Open to inspiration from every colleague and experience. Openly supporting the open source community that helped make us who we are. At Aiven, we don’t just look ahead. We look around. Take it all in, and put ourselves out there. We think sideways, speak up and grow freely. Working in teams. Working with leaders. And leading ourselves. Left, right, forwards, upwards. We open up our industry in every direction.
- We are owners 💯 Owning our decisions. Owning our mistakes. Owning the places they take us. Whatever we’re doing, we commit to the journey. It’s not always a straightforward path, and we often have to leap without knowing where exactly we’ll land. But that’s what thinking sideways is all about. With other Aiveners beside us, we take responsibility for our actions, and take pride in our achievements.
- We are courageous 🧑🚀 The courage to take on any challenge. The courage to take calculated risks. The courage to drive changes, not resist them. Our future holds great opportunities . So we need to be bold, think sideways, and evolve. And when you’re surrounded by inspiring colleagues, fascinating problems and opportunities left, right and centre, evolution comes naturally.
Company HQ
Kamppi, Helsinki
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Leadership
Oskari Saarenmaa
(CEO)Senior Software Engineer and Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2002 to 2011.CEO and Software Architect of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
Heikki Nousiainen
(CTO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for TietoEnator. Lead Software Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 2008 to 2015.
Hannu Valtonen
(CPO)Experience as Senior Software Engineer and Lead Architect for F-Secure Corporation. Software Architect and Partner of Ohmu Ltd. since 2010.
Mika Eloranta
(Chief Architect)Experience as Lead Software Engineer and Architect for F-Secure Corporation from 1998 to 2011. Software Architect and Partner of Ohmu Ltd. from 2010 to 2016.
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