Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

The Team:You will be part of the Core Mining Engine team. The Core Mining Engine enables our customers to interactively process mine enterprise-sized data sets. To achieve that goal we developed our own analytical database. In order to handle the strong growth of our customer base and their demands we heavily invest in the scalability of the Core Mining Engine.The Role:As a member of the Core Mining Engine team, you will work on our analytical database which is built on a microservice architecture, optimised to process large amounts of data. You will address scaling problems, increasing robustness while maintaining cost efficiency and integrating the Core Mining Engine with new technologies like Apache Kafka. The work you'll do:Implementing features in existing or newly created microservicesTake ownership of featuresfrom design to operationCollaborate with various teams and coworkers to cope with rapidly increasing system workloadIdentify and eliminate bottlenecks in our current systemThe qualifications you need:You have experience with writing scalable, reliable, and testable softwareYou are fluent in Java. Python or C++ are a plusYou have experience with developingdata-intensiveandperformance-criticalsystemsYou know how to analyse complex systemsYou have solid knowledge of data structures / algorithmsYou have solid knowledge about asynchronous / concurrent programmingand have worked with the low-level building blocks of synchronization like semaphores, read-write locks, mutexes etc.You are familiar with Spring