Database/Operating Systems Internals Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Review and provide feedback on designs. 

• Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component. 

• Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns. 

• Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables. 

• Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture. 

• Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team. 

• Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities. 

• Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain. 

• Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management 

• Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help 

• Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks 

• Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target 

• Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues 

• Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns 

• Willingness to teach and grow junior team members 

• Excellent listening skills 

• Effectively works within the team and across teams 

• Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers 

• Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again 

• Follows through on all tasks 

• Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes 

• Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members 

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Required Qualifications:  

• 8+ years of software engineering experience 

• Mastery of data structures and algorithms. 

• Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems. 

• Able to write high-quality code  

• Able to present a track record of solving problems of increasing complexity 

• Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity. 

• Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems. 

• Ability to design and implement TypeScript/JavaScript interfaces between application code and operating system and infrastructural facilities

• Understanding of how to write bullet-proof, well-defined multi-processing code

• Ability to develop facilities for large-scale systems, including scale-up, scale-out, hot-standby, error recovery, data backup, and so on

• Ability to build facilities to measure system performance and use performance metrics and architectural understanding to improve system performance

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with the C++ and other lower-level languages

• Experience working with the V8 embedder API

• Expertise in containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes

• Familiarity with security interfaces including TLS/SSL (including certificate management and validation), Kerberos, LDAP, OAuth, and others 

• Familiarity with modern development environments and standards.

• Active participation in operating system, database, and/or networking communities, including contribution to open source projects