Key job responsibilities
Work on deep, interesting storage problems at scale — anti-entropy, leader election, disaster recovery, caching, replication, and data durability — strengthening the correctness and resilience of the Sable Data Node and its recovery paths.
Take end-to-end ownership of Sable features and operational improvements — driving design, implementation, and safe rollout independently, without impacting production traffic.
Carry on-call responsibilities for tier-1 services, acting as an active contributor during high-severity operational incidents and driving mitigation and resolution with urgency.
Conduct Root Cause Analysis for high-severity incidents and author operational runbooks.
When incidents reveal that Sable customers are not following best practices, advocate directly to those customers to adopt Sable's recommended patterns and configurations, preventing recurrence.
Proactively identify and advocate for opportunities to improve operational excellence across the platform.
Identify and make improvements to the team's development and testing practices, raising engineering quality.
Mentor junior engineers and interns, helping to raise the overall bar of the team.
3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually
