Staff Backend Engineer, Kentik

Kentik Data Engine

$176-238k

+ Stock options

React

JavaScript

Python

Kafka

Redis

Node.js

Postgres

Jenkins

MySQL

JSON

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

Network observability, security, and performance

Job no longer available

Network observability, security, and performance

201-500 employees

B2BSecurityNetworkingSaaS

Job no longer available

$176-238k

+ Stock options

React

JavaScript

Python

Kafka

Redis

Node.js

Postgres

Jenkins

MySQL

JSON

REST API

Senior and Expert level

Remote from US

201-500 employees

B2BSecurityNetworkingSaaS

Company mission

To provide clients with an infrastructure visibility solution to make their business-critical operations run seamlessly.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are seeking an experienced backend engineer interested in joining a dynamic team and contributing to Kentik's industrial-scale platform expansion
While prior experience in a remote environment is optional, Kentik highly values strong collaboration and communication skills and a high level of agency
7+ years experience developing backend services, and working with Go, Python, Node, or similar languages
Solid understanding of data-intensive applications
Experience in any relevant areas of network observability (SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, BGP, general metrics collection, etc)
Strong interest in working on large-scale SaaS systems
A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team
Being collaborative is a must

What the job involves

Kentik's platform team 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 plays a critical role in delivering complete network observability to our customers
As a member of the platform team, you will have the opportunity to co-own, design, and scale a high-performance, data-intensive platform that plays a critical role for some of the most influential companies on the internet
Kentik is committed to fostering career growth opportunities and encourages its employees to expand their skills
The company has built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and influential technologists in a remote-first culture
Join us and be a part of a team that is shaping the future of network observability!
You will work closely with customer service, product, and other engineering teams to develop new features and maintain Kentik as the most performant solution
Work to improve our distributed database to meet customer demands
Collaborate with other engineer teams, support, and sales teams
Work on high-visibility, challenging engineering problems
Build on a data platform that pushes the boundaries of data velocity and volume for storage and retrieval

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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

10% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

Trustpilot (3.2)

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)

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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