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
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