Remote Senior Software Engineer

Description:

• Ditto is on a mission to unleash the full power of edge devices by removing all the plumbing required to build amazing applications.
• The company is a globally remote team that values trust, communication, and continuous improvement.
• Ditto celebrates diversity and strives to create a team that encompasses a wide range of backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives.
• The Senior Software Engineer - Big Peer will design and build scalable, high-performance distributed systems.
• Responsibilities include developing, optimizing, and maintaining infrastructure that supports Ditto’s peer-to-peer technology, focusing on scaling data synchronization.
• The role involves designing and maintaining high-performance, consistent caches and proxies to bridge Big Peers and Small Peers in the network.
• The engineer will ensure data consistency and system performance by implementing correctness and load tests.
• Collaboration with the SRE team is required to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed systems in production environments.
• The position includes implementing automation tools and processes to streamline infrastructure management and deployments.
• Writing technical documentation, RFCs, and contributing to system architecture designs are also part of the job.
• The engineer will drive performance tuning efforts to ensure systems meet the demands of large-scale, distributed environments.
• Participation in on-call rotations is expected, partnering with the SRE team to manage production systems and ensure uptime.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.
• Candidates should have 2-5 years of experience in software engineering, focusing on distributed systems and low-level programming languages like Rust and/or modern C/C++.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, as well as containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, is necessary.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and performance optimization techniques is essential.
• Excellent communication skills, especially in asynchronous collaboration, are required.
• The ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team is a must.
• Familiarity with storage engines like RocksDB or messaging systems like Kafka is a nice to have.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus or Grafana is also a nice to have.

Benefits:

• Competitive salaries are offered to employees.
• Stock options are available as part of the compensation package.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage is provided.
• A flexible spending account (FSA) is included in the benefits.
• The company offers a flexible vacation policy to support work-life balance.
• A 401(k) plan is available for retirement savings.