Senior Engineer

Senior Engineer

At Weave, our teams are cross-functional agile groups composed of a product manager along with back-end and front-end engineers. Each team operates with a high level of autonomy, empowered to take ownership and act in Weave's best interest. Above all, your work will directly impact how our customers experience Weave, as you collaborate with a highly skilled team to achieve diverse goals and contribute to our exceptional culture. Engineers at Weave build features and maintain back-end services using Go (GoLang) microservices, communicate across teams to coordinate efforts, and take responsibility for the long-term quality of the code they write and maintain. They develop reliable web services deployed in containers on Kubernetes, contribute wherever needed as valued members of autonomous teams, and thrive in a collaborative, high-trust environment.

The Senior Engineer will be responsible for building features and maintaining back-end services using Go (GoLang) microservices (current). The Senior Engineer works closely with a team composed of a product manager and software engineers that share a common interest in distributed system, scalability, and continued development, working to ensure that the underlying software structures are scalable for business of any and all sizes to make use of Weave's products.

This position will be in office or remote.

Reports to : Manager of Engineering

What You Will Own

• Deploy Weave software solutions into Google Cloud Platform, monitoring its availability, identifying and resolving any issues.
• Use Docker and Kubernetes to deploy the services that create or maintain.
• Create and maintain protobufs for service-to-service communication using Google Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC) libraries.
• Design, create, and maintain services that can meet current usage and can scale to 10X current usage rates; handle failures gracefully with 99.99% uptime.
• Design, create, and maintain services that can scale and grow independently of each other; split and combine existing Weave services to meet this requirement.
• Create and evaluate information about service performance and usage to fix bugs and create a better customer experience.
• Design, create, and maintain functional and acceptance tests for all solutions / systems they create or maintain.

What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job

What Will Make Us Love You

Weave is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals are valued and supported. We welcome anyone who is hungry to learn, problem-solve and progress regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

All official correspondence will occur through Weave branded email. We will never ask you to share bank account information, cash a check from us, or purchase software or equipment as part of your interview or hiring process.