Senior Software Engineer, InfluxDB Clustered

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading time series platform used to collect, store, and analyze all time series data at any scale. Developers can query and analyze their time-stamped data in real-time to discover, interpret, and share new insights to gain a competitive edge. InfluxData is a remote-first company with a globally distributed workforce. For more information, visit www.influxdata.com.

InfluxDB 3 Clustered is a robust and scalable self-hosted time series database, designed to handle large-scale deployments. It offers the capability to scale across hundreds or even thousands of servers, allowing organizations to efficiently manage and store massive amounts of data with unlimited cardinality. This enables enterprises to tackle complex and high-velocity data streams, ensuring seamless data processing and analysis. InfluxDB 3 Clustered is deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, providing flexibility for organizations to choose their preferred infrastructure, including bare metal clusters or popular cloud providers. 

In this role, you will join a small team of skilled backend engineers, responsible for integrating the core database components, developing new services and features, debugging customers’ production issues, and developing tooling to enable our team and others to efficiently support thousands of large scale production deployments. We have a friendly culture that promotes cross-team collaboration, team work, shared learning, and a good work-life balance.

We’re a globally distributed, friendly, and cooperative team who thrive on interaction and collaboration while also maintaining a good work-life balance. We meet once a day as a team for a quick catch up. We encourage pairing as needed to get work done. We also meet, via video call, with the entire company a few times per week for 10 - 15 minutes to learn about what’s going on across the business and share news about upcoming events and activities.

The application window will be open until at least August 9, 2024. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

What you’ll be doing

• Working on the team to develop InfluxDB 3 Clustered, our on-prem commercial version of InfluxDB 3

• Working on the Kubernetes operator and helm chart (Rust, Jsonnet & YAML)

• Developing new features and services (Rust & Go)

• Developing internal and external tooling to support the database (Rust, Go, scripts)

• Working with colleagues in engineering and product managers to help prioritize features and define the product roadmap

• Working with InfluxDB 3 Dedicated & Serverless teams (our cloud products) to ensure commonality between products

• Upholding engineering best practices applied across projects and teams

• Mentoring and leveling up fellow teammates with pairing and code reviews

What you bring to the table

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience building and shipping production software

• Strong Kubernetes skills

• Some Rust experience strongly preferred

• Some operational/systems experience 

• Experience deploying in at least one of the major cloud providers

• Self motivation and a drive to get stuff done

• Ability to work well independently or collaboratively

• Demonstrated proficiency in an established programming language (e.g. Rust, Go, C/C++)

• Enthusiasm for learning new languages and technologies

• Working knowledge of Git (and GitHub) and related workflows

• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

• Willingness to work remotely with technical counterparts at our customers to install, configure, and troubleshoot

Bonus Points

• Strong Rust and Kubernetes skills

• Have written Kubernetes operators

• Prior experience with Jsonnet

• Experience in continuous integration and delivery

• Experience working with distributed development teams

• Experience working with open source projects and related communities

• Experience building OLAP or non-relational databases (examples: InfluxDB, MongoDB, Redis, Etcd)

• Exposure to agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc)

We offer fantastic benefits for full time employees; in the US these include:

• Medical/dental/vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees and dependents

• Company contribution to your FSA

• Flexible Time Off - take the time you need

• Life Insurance, short and long term disability insurance

• 401k

• Wellness programs

• Annual professional development budget

• Financial planning and legal advice

Our Core Values

Our employees are the heart of the company and only by having a core set of beliefs and values will we be successful. We hire and live by these core values:

• We value each other

• We get stuff done

• We believe humility drives learning

• We embrace failure

• We are committed to open source

Visit our careers page to learn more about working at InfluxData.

InfluxData is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other categories protected by applicable law. 

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