What we do
Kentik is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to play a high-visibility, leadership role on a team building a new product in the network monitoring system space. This team is responsible for bringing the deep visibility Kentik is known for into network infrastructure.
Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. You will gain experience building a production quality, high performance server-and-client SaaS application that handles uniquely high volumes of data.
We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, as well as a high level of independence and autonomy.
What you'll do
You will be a technical leader on multiple aspects of the product, including data collection, ingestion, analysis, query, and alerting in collaboration with groups across the engineering organization.
- Lead challenging, highly visible, strategic initiatives
- Develop new features, performance improvements and bug fixes in a modern, highly-scalable SaaS platform
- Provide thought leadership in the design and architecture of our product offerings
- Drive engineering culture from interview process and onboarding to methodologies and best practices
- Collaborate with other engineering teams - as well as PM, support, and sales teams
What you'll bring
Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 6+ years of relevant experience
- Experience driving technical direction for teams, leading small teams, and mentoring across all experience levels
- Passion for what you do and a willingness to grow and contribute our team
- Knowledge of key technologies for network infrastructure monitoring, including SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, OpenConfig/YANG, and NetFlow
- Deep experience working on large scale SaaS products
- Significant experience with Go or C/C++ with a strong preference for Go experience
- SQL and DBMS proficiency, especially with Postgres
Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT, or service provider. Network professionals turn to the...
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