Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About the Role

The Infrastructure Team at Liftoff builds the tooling necessary for managing and monitoring thousands of servers which run dozens of services. This includes host provisioning and configuration, rapid code deployment, service configuration and monitoring tools, and automated code testing and linting. Liftoff moves around hundreds of TB of data each day, and this team owns most of the infrastructure which powers our real-time data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Have end-to-end ownership of projects, and collaborate with a small team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
• Ship code multiple times a day, and within seconds see its quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
• Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.
• Become an authority in Go and many other cutting-edge open-source technologies.
• Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.

Qualifications

• Strong coding ability (experience in Go is a plus, but not necessary).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields and 5+ years software engineering experience.
• Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
• Experience with any major cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience building high scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and eager to learn and get things done.
• Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems.

Nice to Have

• Expertise in managing Kafka.
• Expertise in data.

Travel Expectations

We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. Employees are expected to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter.