Senior Software Engineer
About Us:
At RudderStack, we are redefining enterprise-scale data collection and routing. We are building a customer data platform (CDP) on the customer's own data warehouse. Our open-source, developer-first approach is the first of its kind. We understand the outsized impact customer data has on businesses, and we understand the challenges and pain points. We are looking to solve the customer data management problem in enterprises, once and for all, in a secure, compliant and cost-effective way.
RudderStack collects data from 30+ sources, can transform events on the fly, and routes to 150 different marketing, sales, product, analytics applications all with one snippet of code.
We’re backed by Insight Partners, Kleiner Perkins and S28 and have raised a total of $82 million in funding. Our customers include Stripe, Crate + Barrel, Acorns, Hinge, and Priceline. We process critical customer data for some top companies around the world, and are looking for ambitious individuals to join our team and help shape the future of our product.
Rudder-server team builds the core platform that handles ingestion, transformation and delivery billions of events every day. Currently our SaaS offering processes 80 Billion events every month and is growing rapidly.
Github repository: https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server
*Our roles are remote first, and can be based anywhere in the US (#LI-Remote).
What you’ll do
- Work on Multi-Tenant Architecture to share the compute resources fairly across tenants
- Design for scale and build highly available & real time data pipelines
- Write elegant, maintainable & testable code along with unit and integration tests.
- Performance optimisations to improve the throughput of the system
- Tools you would use day to day:
- Secure coding practices that are SOC-2 compliant
- Collaborate with other teams who use rudder-server platform and build key observability features
- Take part in our on-call rotation and contribute to incident reviews
What you’ll need
- A minimum of 7+ years of software development experience
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required
- Strong knowledge of Data Structures, Algorithms, and CS fundamentals
- Strong coding and problem-solving skills
- Primary programming proficiency in Golang in addition to secondary experience in python
- Experience in Distributed systems
- Strong understanding of SQL, No-SQL databases, distributed queueing platforms like Kafka
- Strong Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools, AWS services
The RudderStack Way:
You get a chance to work on challenging problems alongside amazing people as we scale RudderStack. We are meaningful and thoughtful about our hiring, and want to build great teams together. We expect everyone to be deeply involved with hiring, so you have a hand in helping build the team. We have a global mindset, and want to bring on the best talent regardless of location. The company is still in the early stages, and you will get to see the complete lifecycle of a startup, from getting the initial customers to raising funding rounds, and beyond. Those who thrive in this sort of dynamic environment will experience extraordinary career growth.
Our benefits include, comprehensive health insurance, work from home office setup reimbursements, learning stipends, "take as you need" vacation policy, flexible work hours, remote first culture, team lunches, events and more!
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law.