Our client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their scalable services and dev-ops team in Seattle. We’re looking for someone that thinks in terms of high-scale computing patterns, builds new web services faster than other developers believe is possible, naturally automates mundane tasks with python, and loves the challenge of identifying and fixing performance and scalable problems. They are a fast-growing team with a little over 100 employees in 4+ locations globally.

For three years running, our client’s video platform has been recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in video content management.

About the Team:

The development team is a small and agile group of talented, fast moving, and engaging employees who are motivated not just by their own success but by the success of the company as a whole. Our team members help each other approach and tackle large challenges in successful and collaborative ways!

Qualifications:

• 5+ years professional coding experience, preferably with a focus on server/service side java or c# development
• Excellent communication skills
• A willingness to take on, drive, own and maintain a variety of large and small projects
• BS (or higher) in Computer Science or a related degree
• Experience developing and managing hosted services
• History with and passion for building production-grade dynamically scalable services which can operate under massive sudden loads
• Strong knowledge of system software architecture of large distributed systems
• A solid footing in computer science, including thorough knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object oriented software design and service based architecture

Extra credit:

• Experience with AWS
• SQL Expertise -- both writing ad-hocs queries and developing in the data layer
• Direct knowledge on deployment automation frameworks (such as chef)
• Experience running both Windows and Linux systems in production