Job Summary

A social media company is filling a position for a Remote Distributed Systems Staff Software Engineer.

Candidates will be responsible for the following:

• Building resilient, performant, and thoroughly tested distributed systems that can power the most business-critical applications
• Modeling and identifying potential risks in designs, configurations, code, or in deployed systems
• Collaborating closely with the media technology team to continually improve our encoding efficiency and video quality

Required Skills:

• B.S. or higher in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering (or equivalent work experience)
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Industry experience with distributed systems and parallel computing
• A strong grasp of core engineering components and methodologies such as common data structures, algorithms, profiling, testing, code reviews and design
• Working knowledge of at least one OOP or functional language, such as Java
• A track record of delivering reliable, efficient software and systems