Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Persona is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Online Data Stores team, where the role involves building and maintaining data storage solutions that ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of core systems.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure data stores used across our application stack
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to optimize data storage solutions for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Implement and advocate for best practices for data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response
- Contribute to automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning to ensure operational excellence
- Participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor junior engineers
- Partner with other engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together
- Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
- Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams
- Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems that meet launch goals, reach new markets and scale with product demand
- Directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies
Skills
- BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems
- Strong technical expertise in designing and operating scalable data storage solutions, ideally with the technologies we use (MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis)
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and technologies, particularly Google Cloud (or equivalent cloud providers)
- Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
- Software development experience in general-purpose programming languages (Ruby, Go, Python, Java) with a preference for experience in Ruby on Rails and ORMs
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on cross-functional teamwork
- Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision
- 3% 401(k) contribution
- Unlimited PTO
- Quarterly mental health days
- Family planning benefits
- Professional development stipends
- Wellness benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipend, wellness benefits, among others
- Private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- A 6% employer pension contribution
- Unlimited PTO
- A monthly wellness stipend
- Professional development stipend
- Co-working stipend
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