Senior Backend Engineer

Today’s complex, fast-paced systems have become a minefield of reliability risks—any of which could cause an outage that costs millions and destroys customer confidence. That’s why high-availability teams use the Gremlin to find and fix ‌reliability risks before they become incidents.

About the Role of the Senior Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer at Gremlin, you will have the opportunity to improve the reliability of the internet at large by developing Chaos Engineering tooling. You will be able to leverage your engineering experience to inform product design as well as solve complex technical problems that directly impact our customer...

Work closely with engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to design and build the latest and greatest in Chaos Engineering tooling
Leverage strong collaboration and communication skills to deliver new features within a remote culture
Partner with product and other business units to understand business problems and present technical solutions and tradeoffs
Actively mentor and grow your teammates
Care deeply about the customer experience
5+ years professional Java software engineering experience
Experience in Go & Systems Level Programming
Experience in cloud technologies: e.g AWS, Lambda, Serverless. Experience with other cloud technologies like Google, Oracle also considered
Experience in DynamoDB and/or other no-sql DB or experience in any major relational databases
Experience in infrastructure & systems level technologies: e.g., Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShiftExperience in architecting complex distributed systems and integrating with external systems
Strong advocate and practitioner of automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices
Has been on-call and participated in an incident management program
Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks & web development practices: e.g., React, TypeScript, etc.
Experience taking features from concept to full production release

*The role does not offer sponsorship employment benefits. 
**If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but still are interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.