Senior Software Engineer I, Core Infrastructure

Moveworks Moveworks · Enterprise · Mountain View, CA · Core Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer role focused on architecting and building core AI infrastructure, foundational services, and frameworks for a rapidly growing AI platform. Responsibilities include improving observability, reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems, and working closely with ML, search, product, and data teams to understand and meet their infrastructure needs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Closely work with machine learning, search, product, data, and frontend teams, understand their infrastructure needs, influence infrastructure roadmap, and lead as well as execute on various projects
  2. Architect and build out the core infrastructure and foundational functionalities such as distributed key value store, schema-less data store, authentication and authorization, event streaming, distributed configuration management and hot reloading, rate limiting and circuit breaking, system for feature flags and A/B testing, traffic capture and replay, etc.
  3. Improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems by building and enhancing distributed logging, tracing, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
  4. Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities, identify and fix bottlenecks, as well as improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications
  5. Regularly deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams

Skills

Required

  • 2+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
  • Familiarity with Python/Golang/Java/C++
  • Experience with containers/Docker
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
  • Experience working with and operating open source technologies like Kafka, Elasticsearch or Opensearch, Istio, etc.
  • BS+ in computer science or a related field

Nice to have

  • Desire to work at a startup pace in a small company with a high degree of ownership
  • Experience solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
  • Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast
  • High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn

What the JD emphasized

  • architecting the next generation of the Moveworks AI infrastructure
  • designing and operating reliable and resilient foundational services
  • scale seamlessly
  • build customer facing features very rapidly
  • Improve observability and reliability
  • performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
  • startup pace
  • high degree of ownership
  • completing challenging projects fast

Other signals

  • architecting the next generation of the Moveworks AI infrastructure
  • designing and operating reliable and resilient foundational services
  • frameworks that allow our product to scale seamlessly
  • improve observability and reliability of Moveworks systems
  • Define methodologies and metrics to measure performance of microservices and product functionalities
  • improve overall performance and scalability of Moveworks applications