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