[Wattpad] Senior Platform Engineer, Data - Remote

Overview

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures and languages, around the world come to Wattpad every month to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

In Short

• Designing, building, maintaining, and monitoring a large scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Building new and updating existing microservices on AWS in Go and Python
• Maintain and scale our event platform powered by Kafka
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems
• Configuring and maintaining the infrastructure that runs those systems
• Writing unit and service tests for all your code
• Researching new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• Highly experienced in Golang and/or Python
• Experience with information retrieval systems
• Familiarity with big data technologies
• Understanding of database fundamentals
• Interest in DevOps or infrastructure technologies
• Experience mentoring other developers

Benefits

• Career development and mentorship
• Top industry health benefits
• Health/wellness account
• RRSP and 401K Contributions
• Generous vacation and leave programs
• Corporate gym membership discounts
• Remote work flexibility
• Winter break shutdown