If you're addicted to building and innovating the unsolved with other intelligent team members, keep reading. We're building our foundation-level team seeking a Principal Back-End Engineer to scale our microservices solution. Most importantly, if you're not 100% confident you fit all our criteria, please get in touch immediately, regardless. Humility, passion, and ability to learn quickly are core to our Datawire.io team.

Who You Are { pol·y·glot / ˈpälēˌɡlät/ adjective }

You never turn down new tech challenges because you have an innate drive to solve the unsolvable. You may have started tinkering with computers as a teen, or always had a knack for solving interesting problems. You enjoy working with smart and humble colleagues, transparent leadership with the autonomy to get stuff done. If you're nodding your head, who you are is who we are.

What You Will Do at Datawire

Design, engineer and build the complex back-end system we need to scale our microservices solutions. You will own and lead how microservices solutions work with containers at scale;, something that hasn't been done well before.

What You Have in Your Toolbox 

-Python, Java or any combined OO development expertise for scaling complex systems.

-Experience building and deploying a container platform such as: Docker, Heroku, Kubernetes, Mesos, Deis, etc.

-Experience scaling at least one NoSQL DB (Cassandra, Riak, Redis)

About

Datawire.io makes it easy for organizations to accelerate software innovation at scale with our open source infrastructure for microservices. We've learned from the some of the smartest organizations adopting microservices and are applying their hard-learned lessons to create the next generation solution.

No cover letters! Humor us and answer the following so we can get to know YOU.

1. What is the most difficult system-oriented challenge you solved, built and are proud of?

2. We're music fans. If you could add a song to our Soundcloud Playlist, what would it be? Head here, email or tweet us @datawireio your song link and we'll add & jam together.