Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

What the job involves

• Our ideal candidate has strong programming skills and sound judgment about distributed systems that customers depend on every day
• As a senior engineer on the team you will own features and services end to end: shape designs, build, test, ship through our release pipelines, and operate what you ship in production
• The problems are concrete and hard
• Route millions of queries a day across engine generations without customers noticing
• Prove a new engine build is safe before it takes production traffic
• Keep the submission path fast and reliable while the engine underneath it changes
• Everything you ship is exercised by every query Athena runs, so we care about engineers who sweat correctness, deployment safety, and failures that make sense to customers
• We expect you to learn the system deeply, raise problems we have not spotted yet, and grow toward driving designs independently