Golang / Go Job: Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer at OneConfig

Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦   (Posted Jan 3 2017)
About the company
At OneConfig we simplify the complicated and expensive processes around managing, monitoring and providing insightful reporting for Junos devices.

Job position
Permanent

Job description
Responsibilities

* Plan, design and develop new features and improvements of the OneConfig platform.

* Improve the visibility (monitoring/tracing), availability, latency, security and scalability of backend services.

* Produce high quality, maintainable code with great test coverage.

* Make intelligent choices for the adoption of new technologies based on your extensive experience.

* Do code reviews and help other developers to improve our code.

* Independently work on analysis, development and testing.

* Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence/regression.

* Actively influence the designs and architectures for distributed systems and micro services.

* Work with internal/external teams of developers and other stakeholders across multiple time-zones.

Skills & requirements
Minimum Requirements

* BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent, demonstrable practical experience.

* Minimum 5 years of Go programming experience (for network/distributed/analytics services).

* Minimum 7 years of programming experience with languages like C/C++, Haskell, Ruby or Python (at least one).

* Experience in developing and maintaining fast, scalable and well-documented APIs.

* In-depth experience with one or more of JSON, MsgPack and XML.

* Good practices documenting, writing and maintaining clean code.

* Solid understanding of Networking.

* Able to design data models for RDBMSs like MySQL or PostgreSQL as well as for any kind of NoSQL data store including MongoDB, Redis and others.

* Very good knowledge of Linux/UNIX server operating systems and strong systems-level debugging skills.

* In-depth experience with one or more of AWS, Google Cloud Services, Rackspace or DigitalOcean.

* Very good knowledge of Git.

* Self motivated and able to take initiative.

* Work comfortably alone and as part of a team.

* Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Preferred Requirements

* Experience with distributed systems and resilience patterns as well as implementing them.

* Understanding of processes, threads, concurrency issues, locks and Linux performance monitoring.

* Strong problem solving skills; understanding/application of algorithms and complexity analysis.

* Expertise in designing, implementing and monitoring micro service architectures.

* Track record of Open Source contributions.

Instructions how to apply
If you are interested or know of anyone who might be interested please head over to https://www.indeed.co.za/Oneconfig-jobs to apply or require more information.
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