Senior Software Engineer (Tools)

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• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
• Build automation and services (primarily using Python) to operate and test the Ocient distributed database system and integrations
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and build the tooling to fulfill those needs
• Maintain and extend existing tooling for performance testing and analysis and the automation that keeps tests reproducible
• Produce documentation for future maintainers and concise runbooks for developers
• Demonstrated growth mindset and ability to learn new languages and systems rapidly
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience
• 4+ years professional software engineering experience
• Strong systems thinking and software fundamentals
• Comfortable working in Linux, with shell tooling, debugging tools, and CI systems
• Ability to speak and write in English fluently
• Strong familiarity with advanced Python features and typing
• Data gathering and analysis skills, a scientific mindset is a plus
• Experience operating and/or performance tuning a distributed database system
• Familiarity managing test infrastructure, including infrastructure as code tools