Senior Software Engineer, Backend Monitor (SF)

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

We’re looking for a Backend Software Engineer who is passionate about building simple, scalable services to deal with complex data, to work in our Container Intelligence Platform that impacts Enterprise customers.

You will work alongside an established engineering team located throughout the US and Europe. Sysdig is a high growth startup, and there will be significant growth opportunities for this position. Our customer base is growing fast and so is the scale demanded of our backend. As a consequence, we’re embarking on a major re-architecting of our platform.

YOUR BACKGROUND

  • Prior experience building and operating large-scale data pipelines
  • Production experience with at least one of Kafka, Cassandra, ElasticSearch
  • Strong computer science fundamentals in design, data structures and algorithms
  • Java experience highly preferred
  • Experience with AWS is a plus
  • Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
  • Startup / entrepreneurial experience is a plus
  • A positive “can do” attitude with the ability to articulate thoughts and ideas and see them to fruition
  • An appetite for varied data

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

  • You’ll lead projects as part of this scale-out effort that will allow us to handle the next orders of magnitude, such as writing Kafka-based streaming services
  • Distribute query engine targeting of our Cassandra and ElasticSearch data store
  • Optimize ingest pipeline
  • Put machine learning features into production
  • Handle both monitoring and security data on a daily basis across multiple platform tiers (Kubernetes, AWS, Mesos)

KEY TECHNOLOGIES

  • Java
  • Go
  • Cassandra
  • ElasticSearch
  • Kafka
  • Linux

WHEN YOU JOIN SYSDIG, YOU CAN EXPECT:

  • Competitive salary
  • Top-notch health insurance coverage

ADDITIONALLY, WE OFFER A VARIETY OF BENEFITS AND PERKS, SUCH AS:

  • 401k with company matching up to 3%
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Monthly self-improvement grant – spend on yourself however you see fit!
  • Weekly team lunches and snacks every day of the week
  • Monthly house cleaning allowance
  • Fun team with company events and lots of espresso

Sysdig

The first unified approach to container security, monitoring and forensics.

Technology we use

Javascript
Python
Java
C
C++
Go
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
React
AWS
HTML
CSS
Docker