Senior software engineer

Section

Section

Software Engineering
Boulder, CO, USA · United States · Colorado, USA · Remote
Posted on Jan 11, 2024

Location

At Webscale, we understand the evolving cloud technology landscape and the challenges that organizations face in harnessing its full potential. That’s why we’ve embarked on a mission to provide ecommerce businesses, digital experience providers, and SaaS vendors AI-rich tooling through our revolutionary CloudFlow platform. CloudFlow enables businesses to inject intelligence into their Kubernetes operations like never before and reimagine their distributed computing and cloud cost optimization strategies.

Since acquiring Section.io, Webscale is expanding its intelligent CloudFlow offering with edge-native computing. To meet these changing needs, we’re looking to add an experienced engineer that will directly influence the success of the expanded product offering by contributing to all parts of the agile software development cycle, from design to release. The code they write will run as part of a pipeline that serves hundreds of millions of HTTP requests daily.

Culture

Our primary measure of progress is deploying working, peer-reviewed software multiple times a week. We are committed to clean, high-quality code and apply continuous attention to technical excellence with team-wide collaborations on design and implementation. We work at a fast pace that optimizes throughput, sustainable development and deployment success.

Some core values of the team include:

  • Progress is best delivered in small, incremental chunks.
  • Debates, honest conversations, and collaboration make the team stronger.
  • Accept that mistakes will be made and learn from them.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a de facto team leader, leading complex projects and coaching junior team members.
  • Maintain, debug and enhance code with technologies like React, GraphQL, Golang, gRPC, Ruby, Javascript/Typescript, MySQL, Kubernetes and Terraform.
  • Flexibly work across a variety of different projects and codebases.
  • Effectively manage projects from ideation to completion, working with stakeholders to scope requirements and working with the team to design solutions. When necessary, the engineer should be comfortable setting and meeting commitments.
  • Ensure successful deployments through independent thorough code review and verification.
  • Participate in the tier-3 on-call schedule.

Tech stack

  • Frontend: Next.js, Svelte, JavaScript, Angular
  • Backend: Ruby, Golang
  • Cloud providers: AWS, Digital Ocean, GCP, Azure
  • Database: MySQL
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, Bash
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, Jaeger
  • CD/CI: Jenkins

Qualifications

Required:

  • 5+ years of experience with a statically-typed language, an interpretative language and relational databases.
  • History of technical leadership at a project or team-level.
  • Solid understanding of HTTP and transport layer protocols.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Bonus:

  • Previous experience with Ruby, React, TypeScript, Golang and MySQL.
  • Working knowledge of cloud provider services and their use cases.
  • Experience with system monitoring and toolkits.
  • Experience with networking.
  • Experience with Bash and Linux system administration.
  • Skilled with CSS.

Benefits

  • Base salary: $135,000 – $150,000
  • Full benefits package, including company paid medical options and vision.
  • 401(k) savings plan.
  • Flexible Paid time off

About Webscale

Webscale is a unified observability and delivery platform provider that equips modern ecommerce business owners with deep insight into every facet of ecommerce infrastructure and user experience, while enabling their developers with powerful software to optimize and secure their storefronts. The Webscale platform supports any ecommerce application and can be deployed in any cloud, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Webscale powers Fortune 1000 brands including Dollar General, Unilever, Swarovski, Olympus, Regal Cinemas, and many more B2C and B2B ecommerce storefronts across 12 countries. Webscale has offices in Santa Clara, CA, Boulder, CO, San Antonio, TX, Bangalore, India, and London, UK.