Senior Software Engineer - Platform

About the role

As a member of the Observability and Core Services team, you will play a key role in delivering critical platform capabilities for both Dremio Software and Dremio Cloud. You will be developing the new observability platform to stream telemetric data from customers' private enterprise environments into Dremio Cloud, enabling real-time insights to better understand and support their needs at scale. In addition, you will help modernize our software stack by delivering shared services and core components that drive efficiency, consistency, standardization, and performance. You’ll be responsible for designing and implementing solutions to solve complex challenges, including distributed and consistent persistence, distributed caching, networking, configurability with ease, containerized web services, proxies, private links, Terraform, roles and permissions, and much more.

You will grow through collaboration with other developers, taking ownership of complex problems, and delivering high-quality distributed systems at massive scale.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver an observability platform to ingest customer telemetric data using OpenTelemetry and industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain scalable core data store services to support a wide range of persistence usage and needs, including remote KV-stores and distributed caching solutions.
• Design and maintain specialized coordination services such as distributed semaphores, process scheduling, leader election, and pub/sub messaging queues shared components.
• Create and maintain application frameworks to standardize development, reduce time-to-delivery, and solve complex problems like dependency injection management and roles/permissions at scale.
• Collaborate with cloud SREs and DevOps teams to define best practices and deliver standardized solutions for common engineering processes.
• Engage with the developer community to gain deep insights into their problem domains and challenges.
• Prioritize the platform's engineering and technical roadmaps based on direct feedback from engineering teams.
• Experiment and innovate to tackle complex engineering challenges at scale, with a platform-first mindset.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's, Master's, or higher in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• Proficient in Java, Python, Bash, and Node.js
• Familiar with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry or related observability standards and platforms
• Strong understanding of networking and common protocols like TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, etc.
• Proficient with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB or RocksDB
• Knowledge of SQL and RDBMS systems
• Experience with Redis caching and queuing systems
• Familiar with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and ArgoCD
• Experience with container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes and Docker

Bonus Points

• In-depth knowledge of SaaS, microservices, and distributed systems development
• Hands-on experience with multi-threaded and asynchronous programming models
• Extensive experience in query processing and optimization, distributed systems, concurrency control, data replication, code generation, networking, and storage systems
• Practical experience with Java GC/heap management, Apache Arrow, SQL operators, caching techniques, and disk spilling

Return to Office Philosophy

Workplace Wednesdays - to break down silos, build relationships and improve cross-team communication. Lunch catering / meal credits provided in the office and local socials align to Workplace Wednesdays. In general, Dremio will remain a hybrid work environment. We will not be implementing a 100% (5 days a week) return to office policy for all roles.

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