Principal Software Engineer – Platform Team

At Wasabi, we’re a proven collection of pioneers, visionaries and disruptive doers. We see things differently than our competitors, and we make our mark in the industry by challenging the norm and delivering the unexpected and improbable. We’re a fast-growing company taking the Cloud Storage industry by storm and recognized as one of the best places to work in Boston.    Wasabi hot cloud storage is a new class and category of cloud storage, breaking all traditional barriers and boundaries of storage with a disruptive value proposition of being 1/5th the cost of AWS S3, faster than the competition, with no fees for egress or API request and delivered as a single-tier solution. Cloud storage has never been so simple, so fast and so inexpensive. It’s all part of our vision to make cloud storage the next great global utility, just like electricity.

Role Description: Principal Software Engineer - Platform     Role Purpose: 

Work on platform-level problems and bring scalable solutions to fruition. Is a problem solver able to work independently yet engage with other team members in architecting solutions to problems. Needs to be willing and able to assist others! Understanding hardware and the kernel really strengthens a potential candidate. Being able to write a clear document with the target audience in mind is important. 

*Principals Only. No Recruiters.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a highly productive agile team helping define and build our global product.
• Able to work independently on new things you may have little previous knowledge about, but will succeed by drawing on your previous experience to get it done.
• Write clean, efficient, scalable, secure and maintainable code in addition to tests and documentation.
• Contribute to new features and functionality as well as identify and resolve defects.
• Maintain a consistent level of communication.
• Assist developers in and outside the Platform Team to help them achieve their goals.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux with a very good understanding of at least 7 of the following:
• Networking and Routing
• Kubernetes CNIs
• Proxmox, OpenNebula
• Kubernetes, containerd
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Monitoring stack elements such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, etc
• LDAP and authentication
• Proper test methodology for highly scalable systems
• DNS
• DHCP and PXE technologies
• Bash
• Postgres
• Security with cloud-based products
• Experience with Agile software development principles and methodologies
• Possess a good attitude and a “team-first” mentality
• Bonus:
• Previous experience in a cloud storage environment.