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SONIAN
Senior Software Engineer
Original posting
Senior Software Engineer | SONIAN | REMOTE or Waltham MA
At Sonian, we provide a hosted service for archiving, search, and analytics.
Key Responsibilities
•Be on a team that values code quality, good communication and collaboration, sound testing practices.
•Work w Product Owners, Scrum Masters and other team members to execute against a well defined roadmap.
•Architect and implement distributed and concurrent systems capable of processing data at large scale, with built-in transparency for performance monitoring and auto-scaling.
•Adapt current data ingestion pipeline for new data types.
•Build well documented, easy to use REST APIs and command line tools.
Qualifications
•Bachelor’s Degree in CS or equivalent.
•5+ years experience building distributed systems.
•Experience working in a remote team preferred
Core Team Development:
◦Clojure
◦ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, ZooKeeper
◦Chef
◦Agile/Scrum via Jira/Confluence/Git
Our stack:
◦GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)
◦Clojure, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, PostgresSQL, Java
◦JavaScript (ES6/ES2015), React, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sass/CSS3, HTML 5
◦Chef, Docker, Sensu, Logentries
Email: jobs@sonian.net
Subject: “Senior Software Engineer - Core/Backend”