Staff Backend Engineer, Kentik
Kentik Data Engine
$176-238k
+ Stock options
Network observability, security, and performance
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Network observability, security, and performance
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$176-238k
+ Stock options
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
- 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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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 values
- The truth is in the traffic
- The network matters more than ever
- It’s not just your own network anymore
- Business context is critical
- Modern networks require a modern approach
- Network teams can be enterprise rock stars
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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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