[Hiring] Overseas Contractor @LTIMindtree

Role Description

This is a critical role with a wide range of responsibilities including:

• Analyze and improve system design to reduce failure modes and promote self-healing systems.
• Establish and maintain robust systems that facilitate observability encompassing logging, monitoring, distributed tracing, alerting, and offline test tools.
• Work with development partners to shape the architecture, design, and implementations of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability.
• Ability to work both independently as well as part of a geographically dispersed yet integrated team.
• Collaborate with service engineers to establish Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for backend services.
• Identify indications or cues that demonstrate the effectiveness of an application and have the knowledge to improve or repair its performance.
• Assess options and suggest solutions when there is limited or unclear information, requiring comfort and assurance in dealing with uncertain situations.
• Work seamlessly within a team as well as manage individual tasks.
• Respond to emerging incidents, solve critical issues, and follow through with a plan for resolution or future mitigation.
• Act as an SME on the Engineering Operations team, partnering with backend services teams and application teams to overcome challenges across all platforms where we stream our service.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in software development.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Solid engineering and coding skills, data structure knowledge, and the ability to write high-performance production-quality code.
• Experience building service-oriented APIs and cloud services.
• Experience designing, implementing, and deploying microservices.
• Extremely technical, hands-on server software experience.
• Proficient in Golang and Javascript, and quick to learn new languages.
• Experience in the Linux environment with a good understanding of its fundamentals and internals (filesystems, modern memory management, threads and processes, user-kernel space divide, etc.).
• A good understanding of large-scale distributed systems in practice, including multitier architectures, application security, monitoring, and storage systems.
• Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing, and load balancing.
• Grit, drive, and a deep feeling of ownership.

Bonus Points for Experience with the following

• Golang.
• Typescript.
• Kubernetes.
• Terraform.
• OpenTelemetry.
• eBPF.
• Datadog.
• Helm Charts.
• HLS video transcoding, distribution, and playback.
• Experience designing, implementing, and running services in high-demand, high-traffic environments.
• Experience with high-availability services.