About the Role

As a Principal Software Engineer in the Document Storage - Persistence layer, you will be responsible for leading the development team that is building/ maintaining / rapidly growing the current Erlang / RIAK application and new persistence layer applications the team will build and use in the future. We are considering fully remote candidates.

You are an engineer who is passionate about developing distributed applications in a multi-tenanted private cloud environment. You take pride in developing distributed systems techniques to coordinate application services, high availability and disaster recovery of applications in private cloud. You think not only about what is valuable for the development of right abstractions and modules but also about programmatic interfaces to enable customer success. You can make all of this happen using JVM, OTP, and related distributed computing technologies.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• 7 years of experience designing and building large scale distributed systems using open source technologies

• 7 years of experience coding in Erlang, Scala, Elixir or other similar language.

Other Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of Linux networking and storage layers.

• Lead teams of engineers building highly resilient distributed databases.

• Expert in RIAK noSQL database.

• Experience and understanding of the internals of at least one distributed system such as Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.

• Master's or PhD degree in computer Science or equivalent experience

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Primary Location: USA.MA.Home Office

Primary Location Base Pay Range: $198,700 USD - $298,000 USD