Airship Syndicate

Airship Syndicate

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Remote, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$145k-$165kDetected 7 days ago
JavaDistributed SystemsGCPCloud PlatformsComplianceSystems EngineeringCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • We're looking for a distributed systems engineer to expand the reach and effectiveness of our small Shared Services team.
  • The ideal candidate uses their skills, experience, and curiosity to explore the system, which includes Java services, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, CloudSQL, and Big Query.
  • You'll be hypothesizing, testing theories, documenting observations, and leveraging changes to improve our entire architecture, not just implementing targeted features.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate, diagnose, and implement improvements for performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies
  • Implement, test, and deploy architecture and library changes which enable new insights and understanding, including cost modeling/reporting and data patterns
  • Collaborate with other backend engineers to solve a broad range of distributed systems problems
  • Mentorship and growth opportunities to build skills and accelerate professional development
  • We use artificial intelligence tools in our recruitment process as decision-support tools only.

Requirements

  • Experience writing Java and familiarity with industry best practices
  • Hands-on experience designing and maintaining data-intensive systems
  • Demonstrated ability to work both independently, and in a team environment

Nice to have

  • Memory optimization and performance tuning of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
  • Experience working with streaming and batch workloads
  • Experience improving, adapting, and extending a mature codebase
  • Airship's 'Digital First' approach to work means that for the majority of our roles, work can be performed remotely, either some or most of the time.

Compensation

  • The starting base pay range for this position is: $145,000 - $165,000 USD per year.
  • Base pay is part of the total compensation package and is determined by a variety of factors such as relevant skills, work experience, business priorities, market demands, and location.

Benefits

  • Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options for you and your dependents
  • Flexible time off, company paid holidays, paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off
  • Support for your overall wellbeing with mental health and wellness resources
  • Employer-subsidized life insurance as well as short-term and long-term disability
  • A digital-first work environment and a monthly stipend to support remote work

Company info

  • Airship powers customer engagement for some of the world's most recognized brands, processing billions of mobile app interactions through a large-scale distributed data system.
  • The Shared Services team works to improve the efficiency, reliability, and visibility of that system through shared libraries, platform improvements, and automation/tooling.
  • Respond to performance and reliability issues identified internally and by customers

Equal opportunity

  • In alignment with our commitment to equal opportunity, Airship will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a way that adheres to the principles of fairness and the requirements of local Fair Chance laws, where applicable.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Depending on your location, you may have the right to request human review of any AI-assisted employment decision or to opt out of AI evaluation.

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