Description

VIPRE Security, a brand of Ziff Davis, develops cybersecurity products focused on endpoint protection and email security together with advanced threat intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities: 

• Design and implement applications, services and data pipelines in Java, Python, Go etc
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Work collaboratively to develop, implement and deliver VIPRE cloud core backend systems in an agile environment.
• Continually improve availability, scalability, performance and reliability of our services
• Help maintain code quality, organization, automation and continuous delivery
• Work with a distributed team of engineers
• Provide leadership for projects and mentor engineers.

Education and/or Certification Requirements

• BA/BS in CS or related field, or equivalent experience

Experience

• 6+ years of development experience, building, running, and debugging java based web applications
• Demonstrated expertise in building distributed, client/server systems.
• Design, build, and maintain APIs (REST, gRPC, Thrift etc), user-facing applications, services, and systems
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures and performance optimization strategies
• Experience developing in Linux environments
• Hands on experience of working in platform teams building reusable infrastructure and service components running at high transactional volumes
• Strong Experience with scalable and distributed datastores (Postgresql,MySQL, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch )
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers for both infrastructure and application development
• Strong knowledge and experience building applications using open source technologies such as Spring, Guava, Redis, ElasticSearch/Lucene, Hibernate/JOOQ, Jersey (REST) etc.

Desired Skills

• Experience with event based systems like Kafka building stream processing applications
• Experience with building analytic applications with massive datasets in a real-time distributed system
• Experience with Python, Go
• Experience developing and deploying distributed services using containers and orchestrators(kubernetes, ECS, EKS, nomad)
• Familiarity with microservice architecture, cloud native and twelve-factor principles.
• On-call experience troubleshooting problems in production
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like AWS CDK or Terraform