The ideal candidate will be a backend developer with strong experience writing Python services on Kubernetes, using MySQL and other NoSQL databases. As a PaaS Engineer at Venmo, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the services that are the backbone of Venmo.
Platform Engineer
The ideal candidate will be a backend developer with strong experience writing Python services on Kubernetes, using MySQL and other NoSQL databases. As a PaaS Engineer at Venmo, you will be responsible for making engineering design decisions and developing features pertaining to the services that are the backbone of Venmo.
- Design and implement new services using cutting edge technologies to support Venmo achieving its business goals.
- Collaborate with the architecture team to develop robust, portable, and interoperable solutions to the difficult problems faced by a growing organization.
- Collaborate with the Information Security team to keep Venmo, and its customers, safe from emerging security threats.
- Take an active role in reducing the technical debt in our various codebases.
- Triage, debug, and assure the timely resolution of software defects.
What We’re Looking For
- You have at least 3+ years of industry experience.
- You exhibit excitement and readiness to work in a collaborative environment.
- You seek the opportunity to accept and give constructive criticism and to brainstorm with team members.
- You bring attention to detail and thoroughness, including documentation and testing.
- You have experience maintaining end-to-end availability and performance of critical services.
- You understand the tools at your disposal and can determine when a new tool is appropriate for the task at hand.
How to Really Get Our Attention
- You have experience with production services in public clouds, containers, and kubernetes.
- You have experience with developing distributed services using technologies success as gRPC, Finagle, Thrift, or similar.
- You have experience with database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, or similar.
- You have experience analyzing and remediating performance issues in distributed applications.
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