Job Description
The PubSub team is responsible for providing the asynchronous task processing infrastructure so that Cash App can scale. The suite of offerings PubSub currently provides includes Eventing (Kafka), Job Queues (SQS), real time updates to clients (NATS), and kPow! (UI for Kafka). The PubSub team is also responsible for creating, upgrading, and maintaining the infrastructure of their product offerings, as well as enabling governed access to their data across BUs. PubSub customers are product and engineering at Cash App and Block.
We are looking for a strong independent engineer to join the PubSub team.
You will:
- Design, build, and support infrastructure projects that provide critical support for tremendous processing requirements and distributed system pattern libraries to customers
- Dig into the many parts of a large platform using a wide variety of analytical tooling, and if necessary, add some new ones
- Use a data-driven approach to make the call on new infrastructure or product offerings that might need to be added
- Work with bleeding edge cloud technologies
Requirements
You have:
- At least 5+ years of experience developing production software, with a strong preference for Platform (and PubSub) experience
- Advanced Degree in Computer Science or Equivalent experience in lieu of degree
- Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (eg. AWS, GCP)
- Passion for building, operating, and debugging distributed systems at scale
- Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability
- Experience overseeing customized development for multiple projects
- Experience envisioning a technical approach/solution, socialize it and align partners towards it
- Experience balancing urgency to implement vs technically correct solution
- Additional bonus if you have prior experience with Kafka
Technologies we use and teach
- Go, Kotlin
- Kafka
- AWS Services (SQS, MSK, ECR, more)
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform
- gRPC, Envoy, Istio, Service Mesh
- DataDog
- MySQL, Guice, Dynamo
Block
Cash App develops unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers.
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