What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Backend Engineer - Platform Group position at BigPanda?
About BigPanda:
BigPanda helps businesses prevent and resolve IT outages with our platform for Event Correlation and Automation, powered by AIOps. Without BigPanda, IT Ops and DevOps teams struggle with manual and reactive incident response capabilities that are badly suited for the scale, complexity, and velocity of modern IT environments. This results in painful outages, unhappy customers, growing IT headcount, and the inability to focus on innovation.
Fortune 500 enterprises rely on BigPanda to turn IT noise into insights and manual tasks into automated actions, reduce costs, and give their teams time back for digital transformation. BigPanda's modern platform is optimized for reliable high-volume, low-latency data processing supporting thousands of alerts per second, scaling to meet the demands of the most challenging IT environments.
About the role:
We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help us scale. Here are some examples of the challenges you'll be facing:
- Lead Features E2E from the Technical Design stage and up to ensuring Feature performs well on production
- Work in a highly collaborative dev environment, brainstorm with your teammates to provide scalable & robust solutions to delight our customers.
- Scaling up our event-driven distributed processing platform built on top of Node.JS microservices & Kafka
What would make you a good fit?
- You are a genuine team player and will embrace collaborating with others and enjoy participating in pairing and code reviews.
- You're willing to engage and take charge of critical components in our system
- You're excited to build a product that solves real customer problems at scale
- You own what you build - you test & monitor the awesome features you build
- Making an impact is part of your DNA
Requirements:
- 5 Years of experience coding for distributed systems on production
- At least 2 years of experience in Node.JS
- Hands-on experience with stream processing for near real-time systems (Message brokers, NoSQL solutions)
- Hands-on experience in microservices systems
Nice to have:
- Experience with TypeScript
- Experience with design & implementation of RESTfull APIs / GraphQL
- Experience in cloud computing environments such as AWS/Azure/GCP
- Experience with K8S
- Experienced working with AWS