Distributed Systems Engineer

About the role
As a member of Software Infra team your goal is to:

Build fault-tolerant, horizontally scalable solutions running in multi-tenant environments

Actively troubleshooting any issues that arise during testing and deployment, catching and solving issues before launch

Manage code deployments, fixes, updates, and related processes. Work with CI/CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN

Design and scale our back-end systems and platforms, adding automation, monitoring, and observability as needed to increase the ability of teams to self-manage the code they’re deploying

Provide incident response and support for our production systems

Continued technical growth through constant experimentation, learning, and rapid project iteration

Monitor how our hardware behaves and performs for continuous improvements.

Fundamentally, you will provide the state-of-the-art foundation on which the Dabba's product can scale and grow. We leverage existing Open Source Software whenever possible. Our users are both internal and external; in addition to our customers, we must consider the engineers who build on top of our platforms and the Operations Team that installs, monitors, and uses our devices.

On any given project, you might debug new software, build infra for docker containers, write a new bash script to automate deployment, create a test framework, prototype APIs for Backend Engineers, and then wrap it up in a well-designed build system.

Technology Stack
We use Linux, OpenWRT, C, Python, make and Bash. We work on a variety of architectures Prospective team members must be flexible and able to learn new technologies, chips, and architectures.

Software team at Dabba use technologies like MERN, Postgres, and AWS. Having a knowledge of these and/or similar technologies, while not mandatory, will make it easier to work with other teams and provide the platforms they need.

You might be a good fit if
You believe in continual improvement of a product with a strong history of releases.

4+ years of progressive relevant experience

Strong experience with Linux-based infrastructure, and Linux/Unix system administration tasks on varied linux distributions with deep knowledge of linux fundamentals

Experience with managing SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB,

Knowledge of Bash scripting is a must

Responsible for installing, configuring, and administrating RabbitMQ on multiple environments

Experience with configuration management tooling like Puppet, Chef, Saltstack, etc

Working knowledge of Docker and other container environments along with container orchestration tools.

Must have familiarity with web servers(e.g. Nginx)

Good to have experience in Node.js

Must have extensive AWS cloud experience and familiarity with configuring, scaling, tuning, and monitoring the range of AWS services. A multi-cloud background with strong experience in any of GCP, Azure, ACS, & Digital Ocean, or other clouds in addition to AWS would be excellent

Experience working in backend development and infrastructure development is a plus