Full Stack Developer

StackPath - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Dallas, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

StackPath is seeking to hire a Full Stack Software Engineer with a solid understanding of API, DB, and Identity Management Concepts. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop the control plane family of micro-services. The StackPath Control Plane consists of a set of Golang based micro-services which implement our public facing APIs and interface to our backend CDN, WAF, Compute and Server Density services. It also includes other key services such as a Portal, GraphQL, Identity management, DNS, Monitoring and Workload Engine services. This role will report to our Sr. Director of CDN Development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with agile teams to develop Edge applications by providing architecture guidance and hands-on technical coding/scripting support during all phases of agile SDLC.
• Design and develop next Gen Control Plane micro-services.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Go/C++ code.
• Optimize applications for optimal performance, painless auto-scaling and efficient resource utilization.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in GoLang and C++ (including version 11, 14, 17), with fair knowledge of the language specification.
• Thorough knowledge of the data structures, algorithms and standard C++ libraries.
• Experience working with CockroachDB.
• Experience working with gRPC, RESTful API.
• Experience working with Oauth.
• Good understanding of functional vs object-oriented programming.
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming and multi-threaded programming.
• Experience developing and debugging networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP1.x/2, TLS etc).
• Experience with Linux development environment.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems.
• Familiarity with debugging and performance analysis tools, such as GDB, Valgrind, Gperf, Address Sanitizer, etc.
• Implementation of automated testing platforms and unit tests.
• Proficient understanding of git versioning tools.
• Bachelor's in computer science or related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in building large-scale distributed systems such as DNS, CDN/Edge, Load Balancer is a big plus.
• Experience with modern build system like Bazel.
• Solid understanding in Kubernetes and Docker/OCI technology.