Staff Software Engineer, Streaming & DSL

Conviva is the first and best place to go to understand and optimize digital customer experiences. Our Operational Data Platform harnesses full-census, comprehensive client-side telemetry—capturing every aspect of customer experience and engagement across all devices and linking them to the performance of underlying services, in real-time and at a fraction of the cost of alternative solutions. Trusted by industry leaders like Disney, NBC, and the NFL, Conviva revolutionizes how businesses understand customer experience and engagement, maximizing satisfaction, conversion, and revenue.

As Conviva is expanding, we are building products providing deep insights into end-user experience for our customers. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join the Platform and TLB Team as an Individual Contributor.

The vision for the TLB team is to build data processing software that works on terabytes of streaming data in real-time. Engineer the next-gen Spark-like system for in-memory computation of large time-series datasets – both streaming platform and DSL-based programming model. Build a horizontally and vertically scalable system that analyses trillions of events per day within sub-second latencies. Utilise the latest and greatest big data technologies to build solutions for use cases across multiple verticals. Lead technology innovation and advancement that will have a big business impact for years. Be part of a worldwide team building software using the latest technologies and the best software development tools and processes.

Role and Responsibilities

• Build features, enhancements and bug fixing in Rust
• Design, build and maintain the stream processing, time-series analysis platform which is at the heart of Conviva’s products
• Design, built and maintain TQL (Time Series Query language) – DSL powering Conviva’s metric development capability
• Contribute to enhance the CI/CD capabilities/practices to deploy to Kubernetes based large backend clusters for test and releases
• Own the entire software lifecycle including early specs, design, technology choice, development, unit-testing, integration-testing, documentation, deployment, troubleshooting, enhancements etc.
• Lead engineers to develop a feature or parts of a the product

Adhere to the Agile model of software development to plan, estimate and ship per business priority

Who You Are & What You've Done: 

• 8+ years of work experience in software development of data processing and distributed systems based.
• Excellent programming and debugging skills. Proficient in writing code in Rust/C/Zig that is reliable, maintainable, secure, and performant.
• Hands-on with functional programming, event-sourced architectures, CQRS and DDD (domain driven design).
• Excellent knowledge of fundamentals of Computer Science along with in-depth knowledge of advanced concepts like Probabilistic Data Structures, structural sharing, Log structured merge trees, etc.
• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Druid, HDFS etc.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts and scalability challenges including multi-threading, concurrency, sharding, partitioning etc.
• Experience/knowledge of actor model of concurrency (Akka in Scala or Actix in Rust) is a big plus. Knowledge of formal methods is a big plus.
• Excellent communication skills. Willingness to work under pressure. Hunger to learn and succeed. Comfortable with ambiguity. Comfortable with complexity.

 Privately held, Conviva is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices and people around the globe. For more information, visit us at www.conviva.com. Join us to help extend our leadership position in big data streaming analytics to new audiences and markets!