Staff Software Engineer - Data Platform

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Job Description

Location: Remote (USA)

Team:

MetricBase team maintains and develops ServiceNow proprietary time series platform. We empower ServiceNow internal application developers to build real-time applications for IoT, analytics, and cloud monitoring services. Our technology is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes of time-stamped data produced by sensors, applications, and computer infrastructure.

We're looking for a Software Engineer with a background in the development of database systems or similar cloud services to help us improve the performance, reliability, scalability, and feature set of our time series database. You will share your experience and skills with the team and learn from them in return. You will take an active role in the direction of the MetricBase storage engine and work closely with other engineering leaders to help refine best practices.

What you get to do in this role:

• Build a highly scalable and performant time-series database.
• Work with the product owners to understand detailed requirements and own your code from design, implementation, test automation and delivery of high-quality product to our users.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of new features while also enhancing the existing product functionality
• Be a mentor for colleagues and help promote knowledge-sharing.

To be successful in the role:

• Experience with fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Proficiency with Java programming as well as good understanding of Java memory model and garbage collection
• Experience with JVM performance tuning and optimization as well as experience in diagnosing performance bottlenecks. 
• Advanced understanding of concurrency, sockets, networking, operating systems, memory management, runtimes, portability, etc 

Qualifications

• 6 years of experience with Java or a similar OO language
• Advanced understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, design patterns, and performance/scale considerations.
• Experience with concurrency, sockets, networking, operating systems, memory management, runtimes, portability, etc.

Nice to have:

• Experience developing storage/processing system (SQL/NoSQL database, message bus, virtual file system etc)
• Experience building and operating large-scale systems
• Experience working with time series or time series storage solutions

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