Software Engineer

Yellowbrick Data is a modern cloud Data Platform start-up headquartered in Silicon Valley. We are a flexible Kubernetes cloud-native product used by big name global enterprise customers. Yellowbrick is used by the world’s largest insurers, credit card companies, telcos and healthcare firms, all of whom depend on us to make critical decisions quickly without compromising the security of their data.  Yellowbrick is well-funded with $248m raised from top-tier venture firms.

Job Overview & Responsibilities 

We’re a driven R&D team, solving hard-core computer science problems at all levels of the stack. What we do isn’t easy: We design hardware, build an operating system, pump data around at rates that need to saturate network and make optimum use of the CPU. All in all, we’ve created an new enterprise-grade database from scratch. Our database is used by customers on-premises and in the cloud.

Your job is to get data between servers across complex networks and software stacks, in parallel, with high throughput, low latency and reliability. You'll be building processes to move data from different storage systems (such as databases, S3/MinIO and disc) and different third party applications (such as ETL tools, Kafka and Spark) into and out of our database as fast as possible, in a cloud native microservices environment. This means you need to thrive in multi-threaded systems level programming in Java. You'll have a flair for creative solutions for integrating with big data ecosystem products such as Spark, Kafka, and cloud technologies like S3. You have a deep understanding of scalable algorithms and concurrency, and you're comfortable working with the intricacies of the TCP/IP stack, RSocket, and other networking protocols.

You'll have the opportunity to work across the entire software stack for our comprehensive data warehousing solution, both on-premises and cloud-native, which includes almost every aspect of Computer Science from operating systems to user interface and everything in between.

Qualifications  

• 5-10 years of experience designing and developing software that users are successfully running in production
• Experience with the cycle of design, development and customer release
• Passionate about high performance and excited to work on parallel processing and distributed systems
• Fundamental computer science – as many of the following areas of experience:
  • Concurrency and multithreading
  • JIT and GC profiling and optimizations
  • Distributed algorithms
  • Cloud-native microservices and Kubernetes
  • Public cloud technologies in use at AWS and Azure such as S3, EKS
  • Multicore programming
  • Kafka and Spark
  • SQL and relational databases and associated Big Data file formats and protocols
  • Internals of open source or commercial databases
• Strong knowledge of and experience with Java, C++ and C   

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Yellowbrick Data also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Yellowbrick Data.

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