Description:

The team at Jellyfish is changing how product development happens, helping engineering teams learn how to work together and communicate more effectively.
Jellyfish is in search of a Backend Engineer who is passionate about performance, scaling, and working with a lot of data.
The ideal candidate is performance-minded and has experience with data ingestion and ETL processes.
Experience building internal tools to triage and debug issues is a plus.
This position offers a great opportunity to be a member of an exceptional engineering organization with high agency, allowing you to help shape the features your team builds and how your team builds them.
Responsibilities include developing and improving data ingestion from external sources (e.g., Jira/Git) into Jellyfish, implementing observability and metrics tooling, and developing internal tools to enable teams to better support customers.
The role also involves handling customer escalations related to data ingestion, designing, planning, and implementing key features as part of a highly effective agile team, and providing technical expertise within your team and across the organization.
Effective communication about project status and technical issues is essential, as well as participation in the team’s agile process to continually improve capabilities.
Support for production operations of the Jellyfish product and active participation in a culture supportive of growth and inclusion on the team are also required.

Requirements:

Candidates must know how to build and scale data ingestion pipelines.
Strong programming skills with extensive Python experience are required.
Familiarity with observability and profiling is necessary.
Candidates should be great at asking questions, figuring out what needs to be done, building consensus, and executing.
Consideration of both the needs of the user and the needs of the business when designing a solution is important.
A love for learning new things and sharing knowledge with others is expected.
Strong communication skills and enjoyment of teamwork are essential.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for any employer and be located in the EST or CST time zone.
Occasional travel may be required.

Jellyfish believes in building a diverse team and encourages applications from all backgrounds, especially from underrepresented groups in the software industry.
The company values humility, a performance-driven attitude, and a team-player approach.
A fun and winning environment is emphasized, with a passion for building great companies being a key aspect of the culture.
The company does not sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

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