Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Airship is a company that helps leading brands enhance customer engagement through their AI-powered platform. They are seeking a Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to improve the efficiency and reliability of their large-scale distributed data system, focusing on performance enhancements and architectural improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Read, understand, and write code and unit tests (primarily in Java)
• Investigate, diagnose, and implement improvements for performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies
• Implement, test, and deploy architecture and library changes which enable new insights and understanding, including cost modeling/reporting and data patterns
• Respond to performance and reliability issues identified internally and by customers
• Collaborate with other backend engineers to solve a broad range of distributed systems problems

Requirements:

• Experience writing Java and familiarity with industry best practices
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Hands-on experience designing and maintaining data-intensive systems
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently, and in a team environment
• Experience with a cloud platform (Google Cloud Platform preferred)
• Memory optimization and performance tuning of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• Experience working with streaming and batch workloads
• Experience improving, adapting, and extending a mature codebase