Senior Platform / Backend Engineer (Go, Python)

Like all engineers at Benzinga, we expect you to have a strong hand in the development of our applications and services as well as involvement in designing the architecture those applications live on. Your true effect at Benzinga is the creation of amazing products that our users come to know and love.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces that allow Benzinga to scale to support hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
• Executing software priorities alongside business leaders
• Significantly contribute to product planning and feature development ideas.
• Willingness to learn our stack and learn from the team
• Lead and provide mentorship for less experienced developers
• Handle a business where speed is everything (we are talking about stock market data here!).
• Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
• Automate and debug CI/CD pipelines
• Proactively identify and reduce security risks
• Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Be on an on-call rotation to respond to benzinga.com availability incidents and provide support for service engineers with customer incidents.

Requirements

• Strong ability to write idiomatic Go (Golang), Python.
• Experience with some of these technologies a must: Elasticsearch, Postgres, MySQL, GitLab CI/CD, Prometheus, Kafka, NodeJS, BigQuery, Varnish, EKS, Fastly, Cloudfront, Grafana, Nginx, Kong, Redis, Protobuf
• Experience with RESTful frameworks, WebSockets and gRPC.
• You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level.
• You have experience thinking about systems - edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, and specific implementations.
• You have worked with distributed systems and have a solid understanding of how modern web stacks are built, and why.
• Knowledge of common authentication technologies including OAuth, JWT, SAML, CAs, OTP/TOTP
• You know your way around Linux and the Unix Shell.
• Strong communication skills
• Self-motivated with strong organizational skills