Job Title: Software Engineer

Company Name: Liftoff

Job Url: https://boards.greenhouse.io/embed/job_app?token=7539871&utm_source=jobright&jr_id=697280f04ccbf64f8df273e6

Job Description: AS A SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT LIFTOFF, YOU WILL:

Have end-to-end ownership of projects, and collaborate with a small team of world-class engineers with diverse backgrounds.
Ship code multiple times a day, and within seconds see its quantified impact on millions of users and our business's revenue.
Be part of an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code review.
Become an authority in Go and many other cutting-edge open-source technologies.
Join a nimble, consistently excellent, and experienced engineering team.
REQUIREMENT:

Strong coding ability (experience in Go is a plus, but not necessary).
5+ years software engineering experience.
Solid core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems).
Experience with any major cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience building high scale distributed systems and backend architectures.
Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and ability to get things done.
Genuine interest and/or experience in debugging and troubleshooting complex distributed systems problems.
Ability to lead and collaborate across team and role boundaries to effect large scale change in culture and systems.
BONUS:

Expertise in managing Kafka
Expertise in data
This position is located in Pacific Standard Time zone.  

LOCATION:

THIS ROLE IS LOCATED IN ANY OF OUR APPROVED LOCATIONS IN PACIFIC TIME ZONE: CA, NV, OR, AND WA

We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, and NYC.