Company Description
Kurrent delivers an event-native data platform capable of streaming real-time, business-critical data with historical context to enhance data analytics and AI capabilities. Our platform operates seamlessly across major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and on-premises solutions. Trusted across industries such as finance, healthcare, automotive, and retail, Kurrent supports high-stakes applications globally. Our technology drives precision and innovation by ensuring efficient data flow and contextual insights.
About the role
This is a full-time, remote role located in Europe, for a Senior Software Engineer in our Cloud team.
As a Senior Software Engineer (Cloud), you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying cloud-based software solutions that leverage cloud platforms and technologies. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and develop scalable and reliable cloud applications.
We're fully remote and work async-first, so being self-directed and having good communication skills are required.
Responsibilities:
Cloud Application Development:
- Design, develop, and deploy cloud-based applications and services using platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Implement event sourced architecture principles.
- Collaborate with architects, product owners, and stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient software solutions.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code in Go.
Cloud Infrastructure and Services:
- Configure and manage cloud infrastructure components and services.
- Utilize orchestration and secret management services to manage the lifecycle of critical applications in production environments.
- Utilise PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS offerings to build cost-efficient, scalable, and resilient production applications.
Operational Support:
- Integrate observability frameworks and tooling to enable efficient operations of customer-facing production systems.
- Develop internal tooling to provide scoped access for stakeholders to enable the business to scale.
- Implement security best practices, tooling, and frameworks to protect production systems and customer data while satisfying compliance requirements.
- Assist in incident response, from initial triage to root cause analysis and remediation implementation.
- Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
Performance Optimization and Scalability:
- Identify performance bottlenecks in cloud applications and optimise code, infrastructure, and configurations to improve operational and cost efficiencies.
- Design and implement scalable architectures that can handle increasing user loads and data volumes.
Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing:
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, product owners, technical sales, customer engagement, and support engineers to ensure successful project delivery.
- Share knowledge and best practices with team members and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes and standards.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in cloud computing and software engineering.
Requirements
:
- 3 years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on cloud-based solutions.
- Strong proficiency in at least one cloud platform such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong proficiency in Go, with familiarity with Typescript and/or Rust.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools and infrastructure automation.
All About You
The ideal candidate for this position:
- Loves creating innovative solutions to problems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Has advanced knowledge and understanding of modern software and platform engineering concepts and methodologies
- Is passionate about software quality and comfortable in a fluid environment
- Has experience balancing feature development with refactors to an existing codebase, while maintaining stability for the production workloads of hundreds of customers.
