Posted almost 5 years ago

DataStax is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to develop highly visible and widely used tools and drivers in the DataStax Enterprise ecosystem. In this role, you will join a small team of talented senior engineers developing products that help developers succeed in efficiently delivering business value in high-scale applications.

Essential Job Functions:

• Participate in and drive design within drivers, and across multiple products
• Implement cutting edge software solutions used in some of the largest scale applications on the planet
• Integration work involving Apache Cassandra , search, graph, and other big data technologies
• Foster the development community surrounding both proprietary, and open source products
• As a team, own both development and quality aspects for all products
• Research and implement improvements of the product as well as the development infrastructure
• Perform regular code reviews
• Maintain product documentation, white papers, and educational materials
• Write technical blog posts relating to our technologies
• Resolve challenging and diverse customer issues
• Present at conferences, meetups etc.
• Ongoing education around relevant technologies

Job Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience in software engineering
• Expertise in Python development, and the surrounding ecosystem, or some other high-level, multi-paradigm language
• Command of asynchronous and concurrent programming concepts
• Knowledge of network programming
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with graph technologies
• Effective technical experience with Git and GitHub
• Experience with other languages such as Java, C# Node.js, or C++
• Experience with distributed databases (DataStax Enterprise or Cassandra in particular)
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI systems
• Experience with cloud environments for build and deployment
• Proven ability to collaborate well in a globally distributed team environment

Desired Characteristics

• Self starting: identifies problems and areas for improvement; takes ownership of projects
• Easy to work with but has high expectations of self and others
• Provides and receives constructive feedback well
• Leads with positive attitude and assume positive intent
• Customer fanatic: willing to jump in and do anything to help customers