Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Developer Platform

About the position

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby - neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 315,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. At Nextdoor, the Core Services team is responsible for operating critical high throughput services which power the communities on the Nextdoor platform worldwide. We operate the core datastores and critical services, most recently building a distributed, multi-tiered distributed cache with zone aware routing in Golang making use of Istio's Locality aware routing to serve 20M+ QPS. Other recent projects include introducing Strimzi to deploy Kafka and building a kubernetes native postgres connection pooler. At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees.

Responsibilities

• Work in a large-scale distributed system environment to identify high leverage opportunities to increase Nextdoor's performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Extract performance critical components into highly optimized horizontal components for leverage across Nextdoor's product engineers.
• Focus on iterative investment in a distributed, globally replicated graph store with high availability tiered caching.
• Collaborate with product engineers to understand their pain points and identify opportunities to improve developer experience and scalability of systems.
• Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a high performance distributed systems engineering environment, preferably with scaling databases and caches.
• Expertise in operating or building distributed datastores and a deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals.
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Golang, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
• Creative, empathetic collaboration and optimism to solve difficult problems in an environment without known solutions.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Kubernetes, Istio, and other container orchestration primitives.

Benefits

• Starting salary range of $153,000 - $212,000 annually, with potential for greater compensation based on proficiency.
• Meaningful equity grant with equal quarterly vesting.
• 100% coverage of personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision insurance.
• OneMedical membership for concierge care.