Sr. Software Engineer - Platform

Founded in 2009, SendGrid is an industry-disrupting, cloud-based customer communication platform that solves the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of our customers. We deliver over 33 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Uber.

Your goal is to improve the way we do things, not just keep up with the things we need to do. As a member of the Internal Platform team, you will be part of a small, versatile and passionate group empowered to push the state of the art in SendGrid’s platform forward.

* Help create an environment that fosters excellence in engineering and personal growth for members of your team * Provide solutions that help scale infrastructure and operations needs * Focus on system manageability and configuration, failure conditions, and high availability * Build/enhance real time data ingestion to support billions of events per day * Enhance architecture to efficiently and reliably handle large messages and large workloads at scale of billions of messages per day * Make a BIG impact by coding daily and leading from the front to realize design goals. * Work with the tech lead to provide short turnaround times and ensure the team is developing and maintaining a high quality code base * Work with product owners and project managers to maintain an effective agile development team * Actively work with teams across the Engineering department to develop and implement data architecture, interprocess communication, and other core elements that enable delivery teams to provide scalable and reliable features

* 6-9 years experience in software development * Experience implementing complex software in the Go programming language. * Strong knowledge of system software architecture of large distributed systems * Experience in common data processing architectures such as Lambda Architecture * Experience in live production systems * A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and architecture, and OO design * Have a vast knowledge of software design patterns, testing methodologies, open source projects and frameworks. * Ability to take ownership of projects as point of contact and ensure follow through on stakeholder needs * Success at participating in cross-functional development teams; naturally collaborative but decisive when needed * Ability to articulate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences * Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities * Self motivated, works well without supervision, sees commitments through completion * Knowledge of Linux is required **Bonus Points** * Experience designing and implementing eventually consistent storage or other form of data conflict resolution strategy * Knowledge of and experience implementing various network protocols * Security and cryptography * Chef or other deployment automation framework * Vagrant