Principal Software Engineer II (Data Storage)

TL;DR

Principal Software Engineer II (Data Storage): Delivering innovations in logs and metrics management, providing technical vision and direction for building solutions that offer optimized storage and efficient data querying and indexing with an accent on building data-intensive new features and fixing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand. Focus on implementing data structures or algorithms in the code base and getting close to the operating system and hardware.

Location: Remote

Salary: $199,700—$379,300 USD

Company

hirify.global, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people.

What you will do

• Lead cross organizational initiatives to produce an industry-leading Timeseries solution offering.
• Contribute to hirify.globalsearch full time, building data intensive new features and fixing intriguing bugs, all while making the code easier to understand.
• Work with a globally distributed team of experienced engineers focused on the logs and metrics capabilities of hirify.globalsearch.
• Be an expert in several areas of hirify.globalsearch and everyone will turn to you when they have a question about them.
• Work with community members from all over the world on issues and pull requests, sometimes triaging them and handing them off to other experts and sometimes handling them yourself.
• Write idiomatic modern Java -- hirify.globalsearch is 99.8% Java!

Requirements

• You have implemented novel techniques to efficiently index, store and query Timeseries data.
• You have strong technical leadership skills, work with a high level of autonomy, and are able to take on projects and guide them from beginning to end.
• You have strong skills in core Java and are conversant in the standard library of data structures and concurrency constructs, as well as newer features like lambdas.
• You have a strong desire to optimize and make use of the most efficient data structures and algorithms.
• You're comfortable developing collaboratively.
• You've used several data storage technologies like hirify.globalsearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Cassandra and have some idea how they work and why they work that way.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice to have

• You've built things with hirify.globalsearch before.
• You've worked with open source projects and are familiar with different styles of source control workflow and continuous integration.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave