Senior/Staff Software Engineer

About This Role

We’re looking for Senior/Staff software engineers who are experts in building systems software with a specialization in Distributed systems, Storage or FileSystems, Database Services, Caching Services or similar services and are excited to continue expanding their depth of knowledge in these fields. In this role, you will scope, design, and build parts of the Cloud platform for the Readyset cache. Experience with building scale-out services is desirable.

In your day-to-day work, you’ll iterate on and build production-level code with a growing user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. As a part of a small and growing team, you’ll also work cross-functionally to help scope out product requirements, respond to new customer needs, and develop code to solve complex problems.

As a part of our engineering team, you’ll collaborate with other team members to contribute to process improvements, give product and architectural feedback, and work towards making Readyset more robust and feature-complete.

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will build a significant portion of the system hands-on while also guiding others to make sound engineering choices in design and code.
• The systems you architect and build will be robust, scalable, supportable, and manageable.
• You will use your speech and written communication proficiency to influence others and establish engineering processes and guidelines.
• Additionally, you will interact with leaders and colleagues across the company and work collaboratively on projects.
• As a thought leader in the domain, you will blog about and evangelize the amazing engineering systems you and your colleagues are building.

You May Be a Good Fit if You Have…

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience and 4+ years of experience working on Distributed Systems, Database Systems and Cloud based Services.
• Experience with service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with building Cloud Native solutions on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud is highly desirable.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Benefits and Salary

We have raised over $28m from great VC funds and angels to fuel our growth and help us take our product from an ambitious research prototype to general availability. The salary range for this role is $180,000 - 220,000 USD per year. This salary range may include multiple levels. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail.

Salary is just one component of Readyset’s total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package will include equity, top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage, unlimited PTO (with minimum vacation recommendations), and more.

PTO & Parental Leave

We offer unlimited PTO with minimum vacation recommendations and encourage our team members to take time off whenever they need it. We also offer 90 days of paid parental leave.

Team Off-sites & Conferences

A few times a year, the whole company meets to facilitate in-person collaboration and team bonding. In addition, we actively encourage participation at conferences and events.

And More!

We make time for our remote team to learn together and have fun together even if we are miles away. We have virtual game hours, and an internal tech talk series.