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Sr. Software Engineer - X Developer Platform
Twitter - New York City, NY
posted 7 days ago
About the position
Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we're on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineering, product leadership, business leadership, and engineers across the company.
- Maintain existing stack and build new API products based on native changes and exciting new features on the X platform.
- Craft elegant and streamlined solutions to solve problems and fix bugs.
- Help drive the direction of our growing architecture.
Requirements
- MS or BS in Computer Science
- 5+ years of industry experience working on commercial software application or services
- Strong Industry experience with Scala (ideally) or JVM-based programming language
- Distributed Systems experience (Kafka experience is a plus)
- Experience working with RPC frameworks (like thrift) and microservices
- Understanding of core CS concepts, such as, common data structures and algorithms
- Experience with front-end development technologies (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience with cloud platforms and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with big data processing (Hadoop, Storm, Scalding, Kafka etc) and NoSQL databases.
Benefits
- Base Salary Range: $162,000 USD - $226,000 USD
