Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer, Kentik
Platform - Storage
$200-245k
Network observability, security, and performance
Open for applications
Network observability, security, and performance
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-245k
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
- Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: You have a proven track record of designing, building, and scaling high-throughput, concurrent data pipelines
- Systems Programming Fluent: You love working in languages optimized for performance, specifically Go, C, or Rust
- Storage Layer Knowledge: You have experience working closely with (or building) Timeseries Databases, object storage, or distributed filesystems
- Architectural Pragmatism: You know how to balance cutting-edge engineering with operational stability and business needs
- Strong Communication Skills: You can articulate complex technical tradeoffs clearly to both engineering peers and non-technical stakeholders
- Growth Mindset: You have a passion to grow personally and actively contribute to a high-performing team culture
- Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. 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
- To do this, our single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action
- This means our storage layer must ingest trillions of records and serve hundreds of thousands of queries each day with absolute reliability. The scale and complexity we operate at isn't just large; it’s industry-defining
- The Platform Engineering group consists of three teams: Ingest, Storage and Query, and Network Data enrichments
- Our Storage Team is looking for a technical leader to help us design and scale the next generation of our high-performance, data-intensive storage layer
- As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will co-own the technical vision for our storage services. This is a role with high autonomy, high visibility, and deep technical impact
- Help define and lead the execution of a multi-year technical roadmap for Storage, pushing the boundaries of industry-leading query speeds
- Design tiered storage strategies (Hot/Warm/Cold), TTL-based data eviction, and optimization strategies that handle massive, real-time data influx
- Work closely with product, support, and other engineering teams to drive platform-wide storage standards, while leveling up the engineers around you
- Thrive in our remote-first, highly collaborative culture where independence and clear communication are celebrated
- 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
- Tooling: JS and Python for tooling and scripting
- Infrastructure & Messaging: Kafka for streaming pipelines, Redis for caching, and Postgres/MySQL for metadata
- APIs & Routing: REST/JSON and gRPC endpoints via HAProxy and Envoy
- Operations: GitHub for source control, Jenkins for CI/CD, and Jira for project tracking
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.
Kentik's approach to network management is unique due to its focus on the visualization of information. This allows insights to be understandable regardless of whether staff have knowledge in networking data. The company continues to improve its offering, such as with the launch of its industry-tailored AI advisor.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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 & Co-founder)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 & Co-founder)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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