Platform Engineer

EXAMPLE'S INC.
Austin, United States
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Apache ActiveMQ Databases Data Structures Relational Databases DevOps MySQL NoSQL Open Source Technology Message Oriented Middleware Service-Oriented Architecture Web Application Frameworks
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Cassandra Apache Kafka

Job description

*** This is where your organization can create a consistent intro to all of your jobs, creating consistency in voice and messaging across all job posts

*** C’est ici que votre organisation peut créer une introduction cohérente à tous vos emplois, en créant une cohérence dans la voix et la messagerie dans tous les postes.

  • What You’ll Work On As a member of the App Platform team you get to play a few different roles: Architect: We are the ones that know how our large system should fit together. Developer: We write lots of code. Some is purely for prototyping and what passes the prototyping phase is made ready for production and used by nearly all server teams. Consultant: We work closely with all the server teams to understand their needs and lend assistance with the infrastructure we have built. Leader: We need to be vocal about our experiences to internal teams as well as the outside world through blog posts, presentations and open source contributions.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
  • Strong Java knowledge
  • Experience working with high traffic, scalable web applications
  • Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms and framework internals
  • Ability to speak and write clearly and concisely
  • Ability to think creatively about solutions with a focus on the long term stability of our system.

Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with SOA
  • Experience with at least one relational database (e.g. MySQL) and one NoSQL database (e.g. Cassandra)
  • Familiarity with asynchronous messaging systems, such as Kafka and ActiveMQ
  • DevOps experience

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