Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Verse is building the energy intelligence platform for the AI economy, focusing on providing innovative solutions for energy consumption. The Software Engineer role involves developing cloud-native applications that handle large-scale data from electricity markets, while collaborating with various teams to enhance the platform's infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Foster a culture and mindset of well-designed systems, test-driven software, and transparent communication with a high caliber of mutual respect and consideration for stakeholders
• Read and write a lot of Go, Python, and Protobuf
• Build, test, debug, maintain, and scale our ecosystem of backend services and APIs with hyper-precise data structure alignment
• Design, implement, and coordinate critical application interface and database model changes, migrate and evolve schemas, and scale queries for multiple product work streams
• Interoperate with various storage and retrieval systems for both structured and unstructured data sets across the entire stack
• Troubleshoot and enhance system performance, reliability, and security to meet the evolving needs of the business
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX designers, and frontend engineers to vet user requirements and data provenance with an end-to-end mindset
• Work on occasion in the platform and infrastructure layers to develop deployment automation, observability, monitoring, and alerting tools

Requirements:

• Fluency with Python or Go language runtimes, build tools, and library ecosystems
• First principles knowledge of modern distributed systems and how they apply to the needs of a small startup and throughout its growth phases
• Proven expertise in managing and orchestrating container-based deployments and microservices
• Command of complex application build configurations and workflows in a mono-repository setting
• Strong understanding of service oriented architectures, networking, and security fundamentals
• Technical leadership and commitment to delivering high quality software on time or ahead of schedule while adhering to best software development practices
• A bachelor's degree or higher, ideally in Computer Science or some STEM related field
• Demonstrated track record for Senior or Staff level software development talent and up
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform and its various services
• Advanced programming skills in systems languages such as Rust, Scala, Java, or C/C++, development shell runtimes, and configuration languages
• Familiarity with the gRPC + Protocol Buffer ecosystem
• Experience deploying internet security solutions across engineering and non-engineering teams to protect employee resources
• General knowledge of neural network architectures and AI/ML landscape is a big plus