Quick Intro to Sensor Tower

Sensor Tower is a high-growth SaaS company that provides accurate, comprehensive, and customizable mobile market economy analytics to app developers, marketers, and industry analysts across gaming, travel & hospitality, music, finance, broadcast entertainment. We serve a wide range of clients from early-stage mobile innovators to industry-leading Fortune 500 companies.

As a high-integrity source of industry insight, Sensor Tower is regularly cited by the world’s leading news and finance publications, including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Washington Post, and Reuters. Founded in 2013, Sensor Tower has grown from a $1M seed investment to being profitable and in 2020 we received a $42M growth investment from Riverwood Capital.

Role Summary:

We are looking for a (Senior) Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join our team. Our enterprise SaaS product is growing rapidly, and we need to scale our infrastructure and our team. You thrive in an environment where you can help improve the infrastructure for the engineering team, and you strike a good balance between practical day-to-day, quality-of-life enhancements but also tackling long-term strategic initiatives.

You are passionate about automating processes and developing new tools, implementing industry best practices, conscious about security, and love having a high impact on the team and the business through ownership. If you consider yourself to embody the DevOps mentality, Sensor Tower could be the right place for you.

A Day in the Life: 

Interviewee: Software Engineer - Sasha Elhovenko (Minsk)

What does your day to day look like working as a Software Engineer?

I work with tons of data and the volume of this data is constantly increasing. My job is to make sure our customers can access it as quickly as possible and provide them convenient tools for data consumption.

How do you collaborate with your team as a remote employee?

Sensor Tower has a great atmosphere of a distributed team. I like to pair with my colleagues remotely to combine our knowledge in order to get the job done efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Work with development and product teams to ensure processes progress all the way through maturity
• Exert ownership and understand the long term needs of the business and provide strategic direction for our infrastructure
• Lead development of the more advanced backend features
• Collaborate with the Data Science team to design and optimize our data pipelines and database architecture
• Make Sensor Tower observable and implement industry best practices telemetry
• Drive privacy, compliance, and security initiatives
• Investigate performance, infrastructure, and process failures, conduct post mortem, and facilitate continuous improvement

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3+ years of production programming experience (Ruby and Bash preferred)
• Strong background in Linux Administration
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Ansible or similar technologies
• Expertise in AWS technologies
• Telemetry and monitoring experience
• Understanding of automation and orchestration tools and infrastructure

Read more about some of our Technical challenges here (written by members of our engineering team):

https://sensortower.com/blog/speeding-up-the-backend-with-graph-theory

https://sensortower.com/blog/how-we-scaled-to-thousands-of-sidekiq-workers

Read more about our Engineering Culture here: https://www.keyvalues.com/sensor-tower

What is it like working at Sensor Tower?  

Sensor Tower’s flexible work environment allows employees to choose how much they want to work remotely or in an office. We offer flexible time off so employees can shape their time away from the office. Our model allows employees to live in greater connection with the people, traditions, places, and activities they love while contributing to their team! 

Sensor Tower provides fair and competitive compensation packages that honor the investment our team members make each day. To support health and wellbeing, we offer industry-standard benefits and additional perks that our employees love. This includes stipends for office and/or gym setup, home internet, and daily meal delivery. 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, and veteran status. In support of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you have a disability or special need, please do not hesitate to let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate.

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