Senior Software Engineer, Production Engineering

About our Production Engineering Team:

Liftoff’s Production Engineering team play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our product delivery. You'll immerse yourself in a data-rich environment where your expertise will directly influence the enhancement of developer workflows, ensuring that every product and feature we release is not only reliable and efficient but also resonates with scale. It's more than just a job; it's about making a tangible impact in a team that values collaboration and innovation without the noise of industry buzzwords.

Responsibilities

• Have end-to-end ownership to one of Liftoff's core backend infrastructure, including large scale real-time data processing pipelines and high-performance front end servers.
• Improve tooling and infrastructure to ship multiple times a day with quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
• Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems and code review.
• Become an expert in cutting-edge open source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD and etc) that maximize software development velocity.
• Architect, build and maintain infrastructure reliability of large scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• You will share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems that are owned and managed by the team
• Mentor and share knowledge with other team members.

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science with 5+ years of professional experience, or
  MS in Computer Science with 3+ years of professional experience, or equivalent
• Deep understanding of computer architectures, data structures, and algorithms;
• An incredible desire for quality and perfection, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship.
• Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices. 
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Experience managing MongoDB in-house.
• Experience in using Infrastructure as Code to manage / provision resources
• Experience building monitoring for modern microservice architectures.
• Have good team communication and collaboration skills.
• Passionate about helping others and invested in the team’s success
• Good at English (speaking, reading and writing) [For candidates outside of US]

Bonus:

• Experience in SRE / DevOps / Platform Engineering roles.
• Experience building CI/CD for large distributed systems or backend architectures (preferably on Kubernetes).
• Experience in building self-serve platforms and track records in driving shift-left adoption
• Understanding of various security standards, protocols and implementation details.
• Previous professional experience writing in Golang, Java, Scala, Python, NodeJS, C or C++.
• Experience with Multi-Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (Redshift, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Experience with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark)
• Fluency in Mandarin is a plus

Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on candidate location and experience. The following are our base salary ranges for this role: 

SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $155,000 - $195,000
Seattle/Olympia, Austin, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Boston: $140,000 - $180,000
All other cities and towns in our approved states: $130,000 - $170,000

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