DSE Senior Software Engineer

DataStax delivers Apache Cassandra in a database platform purpose built for the performance and availability demands of IOT, web, and mobile applications.

We are looking for a talented engineer with expertise building high-performance, distributed systems to join our team in creating a distributed, scalable big data management platform. In this role you will be working on our flagship product using cutting-edge big data technologies such as Cassandra and Solr/Lucene. Past experience with large-scale software development is required.

• Write great code, innovate, design and drive new features for DataStax Enterprise

• Collaborate with the product management, quality engineering, and documentation teams to execute on product deliverables.

• Cutting edge work on Apache Cassandra, Lucene and Solr

• Implement and resolve customer requests and issues

• 5+ years system or back-end software development experience with Java or equivalent programming language

• Passionate about building high performance large scale enterprise software

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a team player with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and troubleshooting skills.

• Understanding of distributed systems concepts

• Comfortable working with large code bases

• Comfortable working with a distributed, larger development organization

The stuff that would be nice to have:

• Experience designing multithreaded concurrent large-scale distributed systems

• Experience with any of Apache Cassandra, Lucene, or Solr

• Understanding of Information Retrieval concepts

• Experience developing enterprise software security features: SSL, LDAP/AD, Kerberos, Encryption, Authentication, Authorization, Auditing, etc.

• Experience tuning performance for large scale distributed systems

• Involvement in open source communities

• BS, MS or PhD degree in Computer Science or related major