Description:

Zyte is a globally distributed team of over 240 members, founded in 2010, focused on enabling customers to extract data for business innovation and growth.
The Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Systems Architect role combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, focusing on user happiness and efficient business operations.
The product involves a cost-efficient, highly scalable, high-availability system that hosts and runs tens of thousands of jobs simultaneously.
Candidates are expected to be product-focused engineers ready to improve the product in a dynamic environment.
The Scrapy Cloud team consists of developers, data engineers, and product managers dedicated to building a high-performance, scalable platform, emphasizing practical engineering and collaboration.

Requirements:

Candidates should have experience in designing and executing experiments, including load testing and performance testing, and evaluating hardware performance with basic statistical analysis.
A strong understanding of modern RDBMS architecture, concepts, and troubleshooting strategies is required.
Proficiency in either Java or Python is essential, with a preference for candidates skilled in both.
Candidates should be capable of fixing broken builds of cross-language applications and integrating CPython with C libraries and Java.
Knowledge of HBase and Mesos is considered a significant advantage.
Proficiency in Linux internals, including namespaces, containerization options, process management, file and directory management, and memory management is crucial.
Candidates must be able to benchmark and integrate commodity server hardware from both cloud and bare metal providers.
Good presentation and mentoring skills are necessary.
Experience beyond using or managing Kubernetes/OpenShift, with comfort in designing cloud infrastructure, is preferred.
Candidates should have worked with load testing, hardware profiling, or program benchmarking.
Expertise beyond high-level web frameworks like Spring Boot, Django, Jersey, or Vert.x is required.
Experience in developing cloud solutions rather than primarily working as a solution architect for pre-built technologies is essential.

New Zytans will become part of a self-motivated, progressive, multi-cultural team.
Employees will have the freedom and flexibility to work from their preferred locations.
The role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge open-source technologies and tools.
Employees are entitled to 35 days of paid holidays.