Senior Engineer/Database Architect

Job Description

Your mission is to help people fall in love! Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB) is a dating app that’s getting to the heart of meaningful connections. And like in any good relationship, we want to cultivate empathy, teamwork, and a celebration of different perspectives. We’re not only seeking candidates who are just as excited about dating and relationships as we are, but who also have diverse backgrounds and skillsets. Sound like you? Keep reading! Passion is key, but it’s equally important that you’re excited to make positive and impactful changes on backend's platform of apis and services. If solving challenging engineering problems at scale makes your heart flutter, we want you! As a Software Engineer, you’ll work on impactful projects with supportive team members in a highly collaborative environment, and you’ll contribute to our stack that reaches millions of users daily. It’s all part of working toward our company mission: to create real connections that inspire personal growth . That’s because we champion love, but we think that dating and relationships can be used by everyone as a lens for self-reflection, too. Our job can be deeply challenging, but it’s also immensely rewarding and tons of fun! ☕️❤️🍩

Here are some projects our team is currently working on

• Performance, performance, performance! Every system has bottlenecks and ours is no different. When you’re dealing with big data, small changes can result in big improvements! Help work on data services, caching layers, database optimizations, async queues, and event pipelines.
• Automatic scammer detection. Help us find the bad actors on our dating site. You'll be using creativity and analytics to find new ways to attack this problem. Work with data scientists to implement scammer detection models that can quickly ban these bad actors from our platform. You know your computer science fundamentals.
• Mid-tier services. Support systems that authenticate users, empower chats, log internal analytics, send push notifications, and help make match recommendations.
• Microservices. We are decomposing large services into smaller pieces, so that the company can be more nimble. Help identify and plan areas of the code base that would be fitting for this migration!

What would qualify you as a good fit for us!

• 6+ years of experience in the industry and expertise in two or more areas of database systems (database internals, performance optimization, DBMS/RDBMS, data warehousing and integration, query optimization, indexing, memory management, etc.).
• Full stack database knowledge from database kernel to cloud service platform, including core database kernel architecture, automation of database lifecycle management and tuning, integration with other cloud services.
• Knowledge and understanding of parallel programming, thread programming, concurrency control and scalability.
• Experience developing large scale distributed databases
• You have opinions on distributed systems and understand why they're hard.
• You can reason and debate about tradeoffs of a database choice for a particular storage problem.
• You can communicate complex technical concepts with ease both verbally and in writing.
• You absolutely love to work with other engineers and jump at the chance to help answer questions or solve a problem for someone else.
• You always take ownership of the tasks at hand and keep yourself accountable to get your work done.

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