Principal Database Engineer, Cassandra
LivePerson is a transformational force in how brands and consumers communicate. With over 18,000 brands, including HSBC, Disney, Verizon, and Home Depot, we are on a mission to make life easier for people and brands everywhere through trusted Conversational AI. We believe in a future where conversations are the norm for getting your intentions fulfilled - whatever they are.
We are an innovative, intent-driven company that believes in building the future and we are looking for growth minded, unconventional thinkers, developers and builders to join the team.
You will thrive here if:
You can operate in a fast paced, dynamic environment
You can build partnerships that move our business forward
You build code that is simple, understandable, and clean
You see feedback or failure as motivation to learn and to grow
You believe data-driven decision making is the norm
You relate to our core principles (link) and want to work with Conversational AI experts
About This Role
LivePerson is growing fast, and we want our technology to keep up. We’ve formed a team that’s focused on evolving our event streaming systems and how they’re used by application teams so we can scale faster than ever before. We are seeking a Cassandra Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team to play a critical role in configuring, maintaining, and advocating Cassandra technology. Principal duties will focus on evolving and optimizing a secure, scalable, enterprise-grade Cassandra deployment topology, providing production support and troubleshooting, enabling multi-datacenter integration, establishing and maturing Cassandra monitoring capabilities, and raising awareness to advanced Cassandra capabilities. An ideal candidate would lead peer messaging engineers to provide first class support of the Cassandra technology at Liveperson. The ideal candidate would also partner with software developers to assist and recommend Cassandra integration best practices.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Evolve and optimize enterprise-grade Cassandra topologies as organizational utilization grows.
- Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Cassandra producers and consumers.
- Implement solutions to monitor Cassandra components to proactively address any Cassandra issues.
- Conduct multi-environment capacity planning.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent training or work experience
- 10+ years of equivalent professional experience building microservice software at scale.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience working on Unix/Linux operating systems and shell scripting (CentOS, Redhat)
- 3-4+ years of solid experience installing, configuring, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting Cassandra
- Deep understanding of technical capabilities offered through CassandraHands-on experience with automation-centric scripting and/or tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, or Puppet.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience creating architectures that scale with volume and are fault-tolerant
- Familiarity with distributed systems & asynchronous messaging
- Experience tuning distributed systems & software to improve their performance under increasing volumes of traffic
- Experience developing cloud software services and an understanding of design for scalability, performance and reliability, in both private and public cloud environments
- Proven ability to dive deep with problems another team is facing and help them identify short-term mitigations and long-term plans to overcome those problems
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to adapt communication style to technical, non-technical, and executive audiences
- Proven ability to influence without authority up through the VP level
- Proven ability to work in a fully remote environment with people across the globe
- Relevant certifications are a plus (e.g AWS Certification, Google Cloud Platform Certification
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Why you’ll love working here:
LivePerson was named to FastCompany’s World’s most innovative companies of 2020 list for the Artificial Intelligence category. We offer top tier tech & data science colleagues, along with opportunities to push your own limits. We embrace invention and experimentation. You’ll have great benefits, flexible time off, plus snacks and drinks to keep your mind fresh and stomach full. Most importantly, you’ll have an ability to make an impact at work and at brands across the globe as we build the future with trusted Conversational AI together.
At LivePerson, people from diverse backgrounds come together to do their best work and be their authentic selves. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.