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Automattic · 3 hours ago

Backend Software Engineer, Parse.ly

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$70K/yr - $170K/yr

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Responsibilities

Write Python code using standard methodologies. See The Elements of Python Style, written by our founding CTO, for an example of our approach to code readability and design.

Analyze data at an extensive scale. You need to be comfortable with the idea of your code running across 3,000 Python cores, thanks to process-level parallelization.

Brainstorm new product ideas and directions with the team and customers. You need to be a good communicator, especially in written form.

Master cloud technologies and systems. You should love UNIX and be able to reason about distributed systems. A favorite book of yours might be Designing Data-Intensive Applications (DDIA).

Participate in the team’s on-call rotation.

Qualification

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PythonApache SparkKafkaElasticsearchAWSDjangoFastAPIRedisCassandraPostgreSQLAnsibleTerraformNomadUNIX/LinuxData processing frameworksDistributed systemsClean coding practices

Required

Strong knowledge of Python.

Commitment to clean coding practices.

Excitement to work with large-scale data systems (petabyte scale).

Understanding and interest in building and working on distributed systems.

Experience with databases (Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL).

Strong written communication skills.

Comfortable with on-call rotations.

Located in North America, South America, or western EMEA (timezone within 5 hours east or west of UTC-5).

Preferred

Knowledge of Frameworks in the Python ecosystem (Django, FastAPI, Pydantic).

Experience with distributed systems and cloud computing (preferably AWS).

Knowledge of data processing frameworks (Kafka, Storm, Spark, or similar).

Experience working with large-scale data systems (petabyte scale).

Strong UNIX/Linux knowledge and experience.

Benefits

Fully-remote company

Open vacation policy

Company

Automattic

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Automattic is a global tech company that offers WordPress, WooCommerce, and other web solutions.

Founded in 2005

San Francisco, California, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://automattic.com

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