Principal Cloud Backend Engineer (Remote)

About the Role:
As our new Senior Cloud Backend Software Engineer you'll contribute to the LogScale SaaS solution for observability, log management, and security events. You'll develop new features as well as improve existing functionality. As a member of the CRUX team, you will focus on a broad area of the product including multi-tenancy, user permissions, ingest pipeline, alerting and customer provisioning. You will be responsible for this area together with your team of other Back End engineers. You will also be working on a diverse set of larger projects, which require you to collaborate cross-team with Front End engineers, UX designers and product managers.

Teams in LogScale have a great amount of autonomy, and own a part of the LogScale experience, from ideation and development to deployment and feedback. This includes ensuring high quality of the features they deliver, by writing automated tests, and performing manual tests.

This role is targeting candidates located on the East Coast, or those willing to work East Coast friendly hours.
What You'll Do:

• Contribute to take our SaaS solution to the next level

• Develop the LogScale Back End in Scala & Go

• Monitor and followup on features released to customers on cloud

• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues

• Do best practices in software development; code review, automated tests, agile development, retrospective, incremental improvements and continuous deployment

• Work on cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects

• Troubleshoot critical production issues

• Participate in scoping, designing and developing of new features

• Continuous improvement of internal tools and processes

• Strong communication skills; working collaboratively and confidently with internal stakeholders.

• Strong experience in completing tasks for multiple projects simultaneously.

What You'll Need:

• A MSC in Computer Science, IT engineering or equivalent experience

• Fluency in at least one programming language, preferably one running on the JVM

• Can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities

• 8+ years of Backend Engineer experience

Bonus Points:

• Experience programming in Scala and/or Go

• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience with Kafka

• Strong debugging skills

• Experience developing complex software applications

• Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization