Infrastructure Software Engineer

The role

This role sits on the infrastructure engineering side, designing the foundational systems behind flagship products. The engineer works across teams to keep the platform scalable, reliable, and secure for users worldwide.

What you would do

• Construct systems that index metadata at enormous file counts and store very large volumes of user content
• Help widen the platform's role as a connective layer between apps, devices, and services, improving cross-ecosystem compatibility
• Monitor and tune the analytics stack so it keeps pace with rapidly growing data volumes
• Partner with other teams to ship changes that improve performance, dependability, and protection of core infrastructure
• Participate in occasional on-call rotations to resolve incidents and operational problems

What they asked for

• Degree in computer science or a closely related quantitative field, or comparable hands-on experience
• At least five years of paid software development work
• Track record of building and operating large, concurrent, geographically spread backend services
• Comfortable writing and troubleshooting code in several mainstream languages
• Hands-on familiarity with OS internals, file storage, databases, networking, or compiler work
• Capable of driving assigned work forward without close supervision

Nice to have

• Understanding of synchronization primitives such as locks and signaling constructs