Senior Backend Engineer, Metadata Core

Description

The company makes intelligent content management software. Its platform helps organizations collaborate, manage content across its full lifecycle, secure critical files and run workflows with enterprise AI.

Founded in 2005, the company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.

The Metadata team builds the platform that lets customers add context to files, using metadata to organize, find, annotate, secure and retain content. Use is growing fast as internal product teams and customers build on it.

You will help design the next generation of this platform alongside a collaborative engineering team. Your work will affect the productivity of millions of users at large enterprises.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and build of new platform components from the ground up.
• Build scalable services focused on reliability, observability, operability and efficiency.
• Work with partner teams and domain architects on system design and service integration.
• Shape the platform vision and define feature roadmaps.
• Work with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, BigTable and Istio.
• Mentor engineers and help them grow.
• Improve engineering processes, principles and culture across the company, promoting learning, continuous improvement and blameless retrospectives.
• Use AI to make faster, sharper decisions and grow your impact.

Requirements

• 5+ years of building software professionally.
• Extensive hands-on experience running microservices in the cloud.
• Solid understanding of scalability and observability practices.
• Strong Java skills. Familiarity with Python, Scala or PHP is a plus.
• Experience designing and building APIs.
• Working knowledge of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
• Experience with message queues or streaming systems such as Kafka or PubSub.
• Experience running microservices on Kubernetes.
• Act as the technical expert, guiding the team on best practices, coding standards and complex technical issues.
• Experience mentoring engineers and giving technical feedback.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Bonus: experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Azure.

Conditions

Work from your assigned office at least 3 days a week, with a focus on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

The team works in Agile using Scrum, tracks work in Jira, documents in Confluence, reviews code in GitHub Enterprise and uses Git for version control.

Apply even if you are unsure you meet every requirement.