About the role:
In this role, you will:
- Own parts of our core backend infrastructure, which is a complex, real-time distributed system written in Python and Rust
- Own large, complex initiatives end-to-end, including projects with incomplete or evolving requirements, and deliver them with minimal guidance
- Take ownership of reducing our incident rate
- Solve stability issues and highly complex production issues
- Own the technical responsibilities related to our SOC 2 process, including managing the person responsible for its day-to-day execution
- Constantly improve our development velocity while maintaining a very high reliability standard
Requirements
- Previously a Staff or Principal Engineer at a startup company
- 10+ years of experience in Python development
- Previous leadership experience, including leading teams and driving large, ambiguously defined projects from concept through delivery
- Strong Python Asyncio experience
- Strong software design skills
- Excellent communicator in writing and orally
- Deep understanding of Networking Protocols, Operating Systems
- Deep knowledge of Python Profiling
- Experience in delivering and troubleshooting a production-grade cloud-based distributed system
- Kubernetes and Helm experience
- Experience with different observability stacks
- Strong LLM prompting skills, but also being able to work without them
- Experience with gRPC and its troubleshooting
- BSc in Software Development or equivalent industry experience
Bonus:
- Previous experience owning technical responsibilities related to SOC 2 compliance
- An understanding of one of the following: WebRTC, STUN/TURN, SIP, RTP, HLS, RTMP
- Experience with a strongly typed language (Rust, C++, Go, Swift, Java, etc)
- Experience in building and troubleshooting a real-time low-level system (e.g. kernel, drivers, RTOS)
- Audio programming experience
- Being a contributor or maintainer of an open-source package
Qualities We're Looking For
- Fast - you know you're a 10X engineer, not just yet another senior engineer
- Resilience – being able to balance planned work with real-time issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
- Strong communication skills – in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce crisp and clear documentation
- Problem solver
- Extremely Strong ownership and independence
- Ability to translate incomplete requirements into an actual product
- A leader - able to lead projects or teams independently and with minimal guidance
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