Key skills
Software developmentCloud-based API designPythonGolangData structuresAlgorithmsConcurrencyDevOps practicesCI/CD pipelinesJenkinsGitHub ActionsKubernetesDockerAWS KinesisAWS DynamoDBAWS S3GCPLinuxData storage technologies RedisData storage technologies MySQLResilienceResourcefulnessGoAIAWSS3DynamoDBKinesisMySQLRedisPrometheusGrafanaGitHubSaaSCI/CDCommunication
About this role
Pindrop is the Real Human + Right Human® Identity Trust Platform for the AI era. The Senior Software Engineer will design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor high-performance services and APIs, while developing applications in Golang and Python on a modern cloud-focused platform.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor high-performance services and APIs
- Develop applications in Golang and Python on top of a modern cloud-focused platform
- Develop and maintain services using AWS native products such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3, as well as GCP native products
- Deliver production-ready code from start to finish
- Review code to maintain quality with an eye towards performance, scale, and security
- Work in a cross-functional environment composed of software engineers, test engineers, research scientists, and product managers
- Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation
- Contribute to improving software engineering best practices
- Part of an on-call rotation with night/weekend work required
Requirements:
- 5-7 years of software development experience
- Experience with designing and implementing highly scalable cloud-based APIs
- Experience with multiple programming languages, such as Python and Go
- Expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms, and Concurrency
- 2+ years of experience in DevOps practices towards deployment of SaaS services, including hands-on experience with Jenkins, Github Actions, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, as well as experience with managing and maintaining applications in a multi-container environment, such as Kubernetes
- Knowledge of different Data Storage technologies such as Redis, MySQL, etc
- Knowledge of Docker and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
- Experience developing and maintaining services using AWS native products such as Kinesis, DynamoDB, and S3
- Linux Proficiency
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Enjoy working within a collaborative environment across multiple departments
- Love solving hard problems and finding ways to improve the efficiency of processes
- Proven track record of providing stable and secure code in production environments
- Able to contribute to the feature development in the platform/product with minimal supervision
- Deliver production-ready code from start to finish with an eye towards performance, scale, and security, and with an understanding of how code could impact cloud scalability
- Resilient in the face of challenges, change, and ambiguity
- Optimistic and believe that you can make a problem into a solution
- Resourceful, excited to uncover innovative solutions, and teach yourself something new when needed
- Take accountability, do the things you say you'll do, under-promise and over-deliver
- Nimble and adaptable when priorities change and continue to see the 'forest through the trees'
- Happy in a role in which a week in the life might include context switching between application diagnostic troubleshooting using industry standard tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, triaging production issues using tools such as Google Logging and Cloud Trace, troubleshooting regression tests in different environments, designing new product solutions, improving current product features, and coding