Senior Software Engineer, Valkey
HelsinkiCompetitive0 applicants
About this role
We're a global team of over 400 people, working together to push the boundaries of open-source technology and multi-cloud solutions. Our vision is to help developers, builders, and creators bring their ideas to life with speed and simplicity, by providing a cloud data platform that makes open-source databases, search, streaming, and application infrastructure easily accessible to everyone.
Responsibilities
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on our cloud operations platform turning the best open source technologies into frustration-free cloud services. You'll be part of the team that is focused on developing the Valkey services and improving their scalability and reliability.
- Our philosophy is to automate everything and to avoid repetitive manual work in everything we do. Our own backend systems are mostly implemented in Python with bits of Java, Go and C.
- What You'll Do:Write high-quality, maintainable code and release quality features.
- Participate in technical discussions and perform PR reviews.
- Contribute to technical planning and backlog management.
- Help investigate and resolve customer issues.
- Mentor and empower other engineers.
- Automate processes to eliminate repetitive manual work.
- Develop and improve the scalability and reliability of Valkey service.
Requirements
- Don't worry if your experience doesn't line up perfectly - we still encourage you to apply! We believe in investing in our crabs' professional growth.
- Must Have:Excellent development skills in Python
- 3+ years of experience working with one of these databases - PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, OracleDB
- 2+ years of experience working with an in-memory database: Valkey, Redis, Dragonfly, KeyDB
- Experience with backup solutions and backup strategies
- Advanced understanding of Linux OS
- Experience with automated testing
- Distributed systems knowledge
- Experience with performance improvements, bug fixes, and security vulnerability resolution
- Fluency in English, verbal and wr