Staff Software Engineer, Planet

• 7+ years of experience in software development, with an emphasis on backend services with a customer focus
• Experience as a tech lead or equivalent role on a fullstack or backend software engineering team
• Excellent knowledge of software engineering best practices, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, and testing methodologies
• Experience building services that leverage cloud-based infrastructure and tooling such as AWS or GCP
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Experience working cross-functionally and in a fast-paced environment
• History of working with monitoring tools like SignalFX, New Relic and Graphite (or equivalent)
• Comfortable with using Docker containers in a production environment
• Experience with SQL databases (Postgres or MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. Bigtable, Redis, HBase, etc.), and understand when to use each
• Experience with a large shared codebase and Continuous Integration and Deployment workflows and tooling
• Comfortable with distributed systems concepts, reasoning about concurrency and making consistency tradeoffs
• Comfortable working in a Linux operational environment. Experience using and troubleshooting networking APIs and other system calls. While this is a software engineering team, we do largely manage our own operations (with the exception of Kubernetes control/worker pools, CI tools and the like), including participating in on-call rotation

Desirable

• In this role, you will be the technical leader for the Customer Growth Infrastructure team
• You will be responsible for architectural design and building infrastructure and software that manages the authentication and authorization layers controlling access to the Planet platform
• Building large-scale services and APIs in Go and Python to provide administration, authentication, and access control to the Planet platform
• Understanding design tradeoffs when designing technical solutions for our user focused stories for both internal and external users
• Writing high-quality, maintainable, highly-available, well-documented production code
• Evaluating system risks and improving reliability via code, process, documentation, architecture and other improvements
• Owning operation of services by measuring performance, creating alerts, runbooks, and responding to incidents and performance anomalies during on-call rotations
• Mentoring and coaching the team and instilling best practices across the software organization