About the position
Want to build the next-generation of mesh network technology? Your role is to help build the future of cloud database technology at Ditto that aggregates all the data from the edge platform with a custom, scalable, high-performance distributed system. You will work on both new features and optimizing existing infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance at scale. Work with a remote team, manage your own time, and tackle interesting problems. Ditto is an equal opportunity employer with people from many different cultures and countries. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives, and to providing our employees with a rewarding and inclusive work environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain highly available (both bi-directional and uni-directional) connectors between Ditto and various external storages, such as MongoDB.
- Ensure data consistency and system performance by implementing correctness and load tests.
- Collaborate with the SRE team to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems in production environments.
- Write technical documentation, and contribute to system architecture designs.
- Drive performance tuning efforts to ensure systems meet the demands of large-scale, distributed environments.
- Participate in on-call rotations, partnering with the SRE team to manage production systems and meet uptime SLAs.
- Be one of the technical decision makers, connect business with technology.
- Actively mentor teammates.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 7-10 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on distributed systems and low-level programming languages like Rust and/or modern C/C++.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), and large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience with a wide range of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, time-series) and good understanding of their isolation guarantees, consistency models, and user-facing interfaces.
- Excellent communication skills, especially in asynchronous collaboration.
- Experience with on-call rotations and incident response tools and procedures.
- Ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)
- Experience building data systems at scale.
- Proficiency in debugging production systems across different levels of stacks, utilizing observability tooling such as Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, Datadog.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries and meaningful equity.
- Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance in the US.
- 401(k) and flexible spending accounts in the US.
- Private healthcare through Vitality and a pension plan in the UK.
- Equitable benefits and coverage for team members elsewhere in the world.
- Flexible time off.
- Access to Atlanta and San Francisco offices for remote workers.
