Principal Software Engineer - Platform Team
Wasabi Technologies
Software Engineering
Boston, MA, USA
Posted on Oct 24, 2024
Role Description: Principal Software Engineer - Platform
Role Purpose:
Wasabi is seeking a Principal Software engineer to join the platform software development group. The Platform Team is in many ways the foundation of our product. We hold everything up! We are looking for someone who can tackle bigger issues on their own in diverse areas such as Kubernetes, security,ceph, monitoring stacks, DBs andDevOp. We write services and tools mostly in Golang, but often utilize a variety of cutting edge solutions to build the product and assist other teams in their goals. Being able to integrate something you may never have seen before in a secure, scalable manner is part of the job.
Work on platform-level problems and bring scalable solutions to fruition. Is a problem solver able to work independently yet engage with other team members in architecting solutions to problems. Needs to be willing and able to assistothers! Understanding hardware and the kernel really strengthens a potential candidate. Being able to write a clear document with the target audience in mind is important.
Overall we in Platform are a diverse and fun-loving group not afraid to tell it like it is.
*Principals only. No recruiters.
Responsibilities:
- Work with a highly productive agile team helping define and build our global product.
- Able to work independently on new things you may have little previous knowledge about, but will succeed by drawing on your previous experience to get it done.
- Write clean, efficient, scalable, secure and maintainable code in addition to tests and documentation.
- Contribute to new features and functionality as well as identify and resolve defects.
- Maintain a consistent level of communication.
- Assist developers in and outside the Platform Team to help them achieve their goals.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of software development experience.
- Excellent knowledge of Linux.
- Very strong knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and contained.
- A very good understanding of at least 7 of the following:
- Networking and Routing
- Kubernetes CNIs
- Proxmox, OpenNebula
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Monitoring stack elements such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, etc
- LDAP and authentication
- Proper test methodology for highly scalable systems
- DNS
- DHCP and PXE technologies
- Bash
- Postgres
- Security with cloud-based products.
- Experience with Agile software development principles and methodologies.
- Possess a good attitude and a “team-first” mentality.
- Bonus:
- Previous experience in a cloud storage environment.