Job Description

About Us

Blueshift is a venture-funded startup headquartered in San Francisco. Our AI-Powered marketing platform empowers cutting edge B2C brands to drive 1:1 marketing on every channel. With Blueshift, marketers are in full control of automating various forms of personalized messaging across every engagement channel. Blueshift is trusted by leading digital brands like Udacity, LendingTree, BBC, and Paypal to automate their customer engagement marketing and recognized by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor for AI in Marketing". Blueshift is founded by repeat entrepreneurs who previously built Mertado.com (acquired by Groupon to become Groupon Goods), and were part of the early team behind Kosmix (acquired by Walmart to become @WalmartLabs). We are backed by top-tier VCs including Nexus Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, Luma Partners, and SoftBank Venture Asia. Blueshift has now started staffing a new development center in Pune, India. As part of Blueshift, you will get to work on cutting-edge technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and large-scale distributed data systems. This is an exciting opportunity for motivated individuals to build a great career.

Senior Software Engineer - Core Services

The core platform services team is responsible for architecting, designing, and developing the core components of the Blueshift platform. These services are responsible for ingesting and organizing the high-volume data coming into the Blueshift platform. The core platform ensures that data is organized such that useful information can be extracted from it in real-time under strict SLAs despite the presence of billions of records. This team helps build the core of Blueshift that allows the platform to achieve high concurrency and throughput in a highly distributed and scalable manner. Given that all this is achieved on the public cloud, it is also critical to utilize the capacity in an optimal manner.

Responsibilities

As an engineer working in the core platform services team, your responsibilities will include:

• Design and create distributed low-latency micro-services that allow for analysis of the large quantities of data and are scalable to billions of actions.
• Design, track, and optimize system-level metrics for cost-optimal performance and stringent SLAs on throughput, latency, and availability.
• Analyze high volume of machine and cloud metrics data to report and make data-driven decisions.
• Explore and evaluate state-of-the-art technologies that can be used to make the platform more robust and resilient.
• Own features end-to-end and deliver them with good quality.
• Help other members of the team in their features, review, and ensure high-quality output.
• Work with DevOps team to ensure that the core services are properly deployed and achieve all the SLAs like availability, throughput, and latency.

Requirements

• 6+ years of working experience as a back-end engineer.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing large scale backend services.
• Past experience of working in GoLang or Elixir is essential.
• Deep understanding of real-time & distributed systems, and a basic understanding of ACID, and CAP.
• Curiosity and passion to work on algorithm design.
• Experience working with Linux, containerization, and public cloud.
• Experience with NoSQL systems such as Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Hbase, REDIS will be a great advantage.
• Bachelors/Masters/Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields.

Perks and Benefits

• Opportunity to be part of the early team in India.
• Competitive salary along with stock option grants.
• Excellent hospitalization, personal accident, and term insurance coverage.
• Located in a top-notch facility in Baner - one of the best neighborhoods for tech startups.
• Daily catered breakfast, lunch, and snacks along with a well-stocked pantry.