Senior Software Engineer, Technical Infrastructure & Platform Services at Gro Intelligence

What You'll Do

1. Below are just some of the challenges and problems we are trying to solve here at Gro. If you can help us with one or more we would love to speak with you - particularly if you're eager to see your work have a bigger impact on the world
2. Scale our data ingestion and indexing pipelines, to handle orders of magnitude more data (e.g. rasterized/pixel data vs region-encoded data)
3. Decompose serving monoliths into a microservices/service-oriented architecture
4. Obsess over query performance and data schemas to enable efficiency and speed at ever-growing scale
5. Rethink and revamp our CI/CD process to find the sweet spot between nimbleness and stability

Who You Are

1. Someone who is passionate about building, tuning, and scaling systems
2. Adept at, and motivated by, the concept of trying to automate yourself out of a job
3. A great team player; someone with a point of view who knows how to humbly express it
4. Open-minded about languages/tools/frameworks, and able to make good decisions about which to use (and when) to solve a particular problem

Qualifications

1. Deep understanding of computer engineering fundamentals (at least one of: kernels/operating systems, networking, distributed systems, structured storage systems, relational databases, cloud computing)
2. Experience with enterprise cloud infrastructure and services (we use AWS)
3. Proficient in Python, or a strong willingness to learn it and use it
4. Proficiency with a systems programming language (e.g. C/C++, Rust, Java, etc.)
5. BS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
6. 4+ years of relevant industry experience

Nice to have

1. Familiarity with Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes, CircleCI
2. Experience with, or a passion for, the Rust programming language
3. Experience in technical leadership, leading project teams, and setting technical direction

We are focused on hiring a small army of systems engineering folks with a variety of backgrounds and skills to tackle huge infrastructure challenges. We need both generalists and specialists - so if you're reading this and think you can make an impact as an engineer specializing in any of the areas mentioned, or even hinted at, above then please apply and let us know!

For this Nairobi-based position, we are willing and able to sponsor Kenyan work permits