Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure

Poshmark, Inc.

Redwood City, CA, United States

2 months ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

4 years minimum

Compensation

$137,255.0 - $193,873.0

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

dice.com

Tech stack

Clean Code Principles Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Artificial Intelligence Automation of Tests Code Review Data Structures Software Debugging DevOps Distributed Systems Python (Programming Language) MongoDB

+11 more

NoSQL RabbitMQ Redis Reliability Engineering Ruby Software Engineering SQL Databases Backend Containerization Information Technology Microservices

Job description

The Core Infrastructure team drives developer experience, microservice development, and performance and reliability related initiatives. Developer experience covers anything that a team might need in order to build, release, run, and support software; for example, ensuring automated tests stay fast and stable. Poshmark’s first platform was largely a monolith written in JRuby. Today that monolith is being broken up into smaller microservices written in Java, JRuby, and Python. The Core Infrastructure team develops the microservice frameworks and core libraries used by other teams., * Write high-quality code in Ruby (JRuby), Java, and Python

Develop APIs, frameworks, libraries and services for use by other developers
Design and improve architecture in order to ensure horizontal scalability at all layers
Resolve issues related to performance at all tiers of the application
Help shape developer experience a.k.a. engineering enablement at Poshmark, including defining what best practices every team should be following
Use AI as a force multiplier in day-to-day engineering work
Closely partner with the DevOps, security, and SRE teams to bake compliance, performance, and reliability into the platform

6-Month Accomplishments:

Able to plan medium complexity projects with no supervision
Provides meaningful design feedback and code reviews to peers
Actively mentors junior engineers, guiding them through complex technical tasks and fostering their career development

Requirements

Able to find technical solutions to large complexity problems with minimal supervision
Able to identify architectural gaps and propose solutions
Have rolled out a high impact project to production

Desired Skills:

4+ years experience building and operating back-end systems
You have experience debugging complex problems across an entire stack
You have worked on and/or understand distributed systems and large scale engineering challenges
You are familiar with either NoSQL or SQL databases and have experience scaling them
You are a strong communicator who can articulate trade-offs and drive consensus across teams
Experience with any of: Ruby (JRuby), Java, Python, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, containerization, and *nix environments
A solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design