Senior Software Engineer, Database Reliability Engineering
Our mission is to protect life.
We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of police records so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.
It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day.
Location: Seattle, WA
Our team
In the Platform team, we are solving some of the hardest cloud challenges today. We provide the underlying system that ingests tens of petabytes of video from hundreds of thousands of officers around the world. We ensure that these videos are uploaded accurately, stored safely and permanently, and with audit-logging to track chain of custody and use. We also handle a growing set of other types of evidence: audio, photographs, sensor streams, you name it. We are one of the world’s largest customers of Blob storage.
We are now at the ‘knee of the curve’, as we are transitioning to industrial-strength reliability and modern cloud software offerings. If you enjoy working on large-scale projects, and collaboratively leading and setting the technical direction of a team, this role is for you.
Your Impact:
You are a Senior Software Engineer with experience building large-scale software applications. You have developed strong mastery and interested in backend technologies and are capable of connecting frontend solutions to them. You are excited about the care, feeding and growth of a high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems.
Come work in an exciting environment where you use your passion, experience, and analytical skills to help bring new solutions to public safety and leave a positive impact on the world.
Your Day to Day
- Perform design, code, and process reviews to improve individual systems as well as engineering-wide
- Tackle the difficult problems we face in a long term sustainable manner
- Help make our team better by contributing to design and launch reviews for new services
- Advocate for and apply best practices when it comes to availability, scalability, operational excellence, and efficiency
- Investigate new ways to continually improve and automate all aspects of what we do
- Engage early with teams on new products and services design to ensure that they are using a good set of datastores, in a good way.
Basic Qualifications
- Fanatical attention to detail
- Excellent self-discipline and time management
- Experience of working across wide geographical timezones, sharing development work with a “follow the sun” model
- Experience with at least one procedural language, and at least one scripting/interpreted language.
- A passion to remove manual toil and scale limitations from the system
- Experience of operating either a public or large internal service with demanding customers
- Strong working knowledge of Linux based systems and Shell commands and scripting.
- Experience of building & operating Cloud hosted services (i.e. built and deployed under Azure, AWS, or another cloud provider).
- Experience and with one or more SQL, noSQL, or streaming data system, and interested in acquiring deep expertise in same.
- Interested in writing tools and documentation to allow teams to “self-serve” without routing through you.
- High competency in English technical writing and speaking is a must
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with container-based platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Prometheus
- Experience of running a large scale CI pipeline (TeamCity; Jenkins)
- Microsoft Azure cloud
Compensation and Benefits:
- Competitive salary and 401K with employer match
- Discretionary paid time off
- Robust parental leave policy
- An award-winning office/working environment
- Ride along with police officers to see them use our technology and get inspired
- And more...
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.