Kentik
Sr Staff Distributed Systems Engineer, Platform - Storage
Remote – United States · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$245kDetected 4 days ago
JavaScriptPythonGoReactNode.jsExpressDistributed SystemsGitPostgreSQLMySQLRedisCI/CDJenkinsPlatform EngineeringRESTgRPCKafkaData EngineeringJiraSystems EngineeringLoad BalancingCommunication
About the role
- Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context - from data center to cloud to the internet.
- This means our storage layer must ingest trillions of records and serve hundreds of thousands of queries each day with absolute reliability.
- This is a role with high autonomy, high visibility, and deep technical impact.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run.
- Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract, engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.
Requirements
- 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
- Experience with the skill sets required for success
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
- 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.
- Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally.
Compensation
- Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role.
- The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors, including but not limited to:
- With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you'll take on, we're sure you'll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
Benefits
- With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you'll take on, we're sure you'll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
- As a Sr Staff Engineer, you will co-own the technical vision for our storage services.
Company info
- Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context - from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
- What we do
- 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
- The scale and complexity we operate at isn't just large; it's industry-defining.
- Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams.
- Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale.
- This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, and synthetic data to turn telemetry into action.
- Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please reach out to recruiting@kentik.com.
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