Distributed Systems Engineer
Company Name:
Datadog
Location:
Boston, MA
Date Posted:
23rd Nov, 2016
Description:
- Build distributed, high-throughput, real-time data pipelines
- Do it in Go and Python, with bits of C or other languages
- Use Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch and other open-source components
- Join a tightly knit team solving hard problems the right way
- Own meaningful parts of our service, have an impact, grow with the company
Qualification:
- You have a BS/MS/PhD in a scientific field
- You have significant experience with Go or Python on the back-end
- Before that, you've mastered a JVM Language or C/C++
- You can get down to the low-level when needed
- You tend to obsess over code simplicity and performance
- You want to work in a fast, high growth startup environment
Bonus points
- You wrote your own data pipelines once or twice before (and know what you did wrong)
- You have battle scars with Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka or Numpy
- You are very curious about Apache Spark
- You have a strong background in Stats