Senior Software Engineer
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Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Remote

Hiring Manager: Engineering Manager

Estimated salary range: $145,000 to $185,000

The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate's experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations.

Ocient is a venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale, high-performance data platform. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks, and high core count processors. We are led by a management team with seven successful startup exits, including Cleversafe which was one of the largest software startup exits in Chicago's history.

Job Overview:Ocient is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join the Loading Engineering team. Loading Engineering is a software development team focused on Ocient's Loading and Transformation platforms. The team works closely with end customers and the rest of the Ocient engineering teams to deliver massive-scale data solutions. Ideal candidates are passionate about large-scale systems engineering, high-performance distributed systems, and ensuring customer success.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and validate batch and stream loading systems to ingest terabytes of data per day.
• Collaborate across engineering teams and customer engagements to deliver world-class massive-scale data solutions.
• Program in Java, C++, and Python to build and monitor distributed software systems.
• Work closely with Sales, Product, and End Customers to ensure business success.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Strong fundamental computer science skills.
• Prior industry experience building high-performance distributed systems in Java and C++.
• A good working knowledge of Linux, networking, and databases.
• The ability to own, communicate, and manage risk associated with large complex problems.

An ideal candidate will have:

• A “polyglot” skill set with a demonstrated ability and desire to work across different domains and problems.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, and refining end-to-end customer-facing systems.
• Familiarity and knowledge of Big Data concepts and solutions, including use of stream processing using technologies like Apache Kafka is highly desired.
• Prior background building data pipeline (ETL) software.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, startup environment with a highly collaborative team.
• Strong sense of urgency and commitment to customer success.

You are not required to have experience in each of these areas. Ocient cares more about general engineering skill and passion for large-scale distributed systems.

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