Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tines is an intelligent workflow platform company that uses AI, automation, and integrations to power important business workflows. The Senior Software Engineer will scale and improve backend job-processing systems and code-execution engines while contributing broadly across the stack, shaping technical direction, writing reliable code, and owning solutions through production.
Responsibilities
- Influence the technical direction for some of Tines’ most critical systems
- Make valuable changes in our codebase in your first week, and see them live in production minutes after merging them
- Shape how jobs and code are executed at the very heart of our application, to help us power the world’s most important workflows
- Write and review high-quality, well-tested code to ensure that we’re creating a stable product for our customers, and a stress-free codebase for ourselves
- Identify areas for improvement, both in our codebase and in how we work, and share the responsibility of making our team better
- Own the problems you’re solving - and the software you write to solve them - all the way to production and beyond, responding to customer feedback to improve those solutions
- Build robust, high-availability systems that can support massive data throughput requirements
- Improve action throughput to meet our growing customers’ scale
- Create internal and customer-facing controls that allow Tines and our customers to configure job prioritization levels, ensuring the most critical workflows are executed in a timely manner
- Build features that allow customers to execute code in our product
- Ensure customers’ jobs are executed in a balanced and fair manner, particularly on multitenant stacks
- Write a blog post to share something interesting we learned with the community
Skills
- Typically 6+ years as a professional software engineer
- Proven track record of success as a software engineer
- Linux systems - namespaces, file descriptors, Unix sockets, mounts, networking, and process isolation
- Container runtimes, orchestration, or code execution platforms
- Filesystem and file storage, including POSIX behavior, content-addressed storage, and crash recovery
- Low-level system primitives in Rust or Go
- Debugging: building focused reproducers for kernel, runtime, and storage issues, and using logs, traces, metrics, and tests to isolate root causes
- Your abilities matter, not your education or exactly where you've worked
- We just need you to show us that you have accumulated the foundational skills and knowledge needed to succeed
- You don't need to have experience in all of these areas, but you will need to be excited to pitch in anywhere when needed, with the support of your teammates
- You can work fully remotely from anywhere in an EST state with a preference for being based in the Greater Boston Area area
Benefits
- Equity
- You can work fully remotely from anywhere in an EST state with a preference for being based in the Greater Boston Area area.
- You can make use of our Tines office space in downtown Boston to meet up with other members of the MA engineering team when you wish.
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