Ocient

Job Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: Remote

Hiring Manager: Kevin Lau

Estimated salary range:   $160,000 to $200,000

• The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations.

About Ocient:

Ocient is a venture-funded startup building a SQL compliant, exabyte-scale, high-performance data platform. It is a distributed system optimized for NVMe drives, RDMA networks and high core count processors. We are led by a management team with seven successful startup exits, including Cleversafe which was one of the largest software startup exits in Chicago's history.

Job Overview:
Ocient is looking for experienced Software Engineers to join the Loading Engineering team. Loading Engineering is a software development team focused on Ocient’s Loading and Transformation platforms. The team works closely with end customers and the rest of the Ocient engineering teams to deliver massive-scale data solutions. Ideal candidates are passionate about large-scale systems engineering, high-performance distributed systems, and ensuring customer success. This role is specifically a technical lead position on the Streamloader team.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and validate batch and stream loading systems to ingest terabytes of data per day.
• Lead architecture and design by closely partnering with architects and implementation with team members to deliver high-quality software.
• Collaborate across engineering teams and customer engagements to deliver world-class massive-scale data solutions.
• Program in modern C++ to build and monitor distributed software systems.
• Work closely with Sales, Product, and End Customers to ensure business success.
• Contribute to engineering innovation 

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant industry experience, with a proven track record of technical leadership over small to medium sized teams.
• Strong fundamental computer science skills.
• Prior industry experience in building high-performance distributed systems in modern C++.
• The ability to own, communicate, and manage risk associated with large complex problems.
• A good working knowledge of Linux, networking, and databases.

An ideal candidate will have:

• 7+ years of relevant industry experience.
• A “polyglot” skill set with a demonstrated ability and desire to work across different domains and problems.
• Proven experience building, maintaining, and refining end-to-end customer facing systems.
• Familiarity and knowledge of Big Data concepts and solutions, including use of stream processing using technologies like Apache Kafka is highly desired.
• Prior background building data pipeline (ETL) software.
• Familiarity with source control, testing frameworks, and all aspects of developing in large, distributed software teams.
• Desire to work in a fast paced, startup environment with a highly collaborative team.
• Strong sense of urgency and commitment to customer success.

You are not required to have experience in each of these areas. Ocient cares more about general engineering skill and passion for large-scale distributed systems.

We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

Ocient provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.