Senior Software Engineer (Queueing and DB Ops)

You’ll work as a member of Team Q. Team Q manages Iterable technologies and libraries powering the myriad of queueing problems across Iterable.  At peak parts of the day these queues reach nearly 1 million publishes a second! Team Q is building towards continuously enriching self-service platforms that allow every Iterable team to plug into this high scale torrent of messages - seamlessly. 

As a Senior Software Engineer on Team Q at Iterable, you'll have the opportunity to direct how we support massive real-time traffic ensuring fairness and predictability for our customers.

Your work will include designing and implementing our next-generation queueing library, including how we dynamically prioritize incoming traffic and schedule+predict long-running workloads. You’ll work closely across teams in Iterable to understand our rich set of queueing use cases to help form the solutions on the team roadmap.

We believe in a strong, friendly engineering culture and value personal and professional growth. You'll get to work on what you like and one of our explicit goals as a team is to build a uniquely fun and growth-oriented culture. Our team of hackers and thinkers is small, lean, and empathetic.

One of our core values is a growth mindset and Iterable is a company where everyone can grow. If this is a role that excites you, please do apply as we value applicants for the skills they bring beyond a job description.

• Design and build libraries to accelerate the building of Customer Products
• Build products to gracefully handle widely varying traffic patterns in queues
• Collaborate with a small and nimble engineering team
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks

• Experience designing, developing, and operating asynchronous systems
• Experience with queueing technology (RMQ, SQS, Kafka, etc)
• Proficiency  in at least one modern programming language (we use Scala)
• A passion for developer experience
• Passion for learning and a team player

• Experience managing operations in datastores used in services
• Experience with Scala ZIO and reactive domain modeling
• Contributor to a queueing technology

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