Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Grid Dynamics is a technology consulting and platform and product engineering company. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop platform capabilities, automation, observability, and engineering tooling for scalable and reliable Valkey operations, while collaborating with Platform, Core, and SRE teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automation and platform tooling to operate and scale Valkey reliably and efficiently
• Build and enhance observability capabilities, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing
• Develop tooling and automation for cluster lifecycle management, diagnostics, and other operational workflows, reducing manual intervention and operational complexity
• Investigate complex distributed-system and performance issues and implement solutions that improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance
• Build and improve CI/CD automation and engineering tooling to enable safe and efficient development and deployment of platform services
• Collaborate with Platform, Core, and SRE engineers on architecture, APIs, automation, and tooling, and contribute to the technical documentation needed to develop and maintain the platform

Skills

• Strong proficiency in Java and experience developing production backend systems
• Experience with at least one scalable distributed data store such as Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, or MongoDB
• Experience designing and building RESTful services and resilient, high-performance backend components
• Experience with Kubernetes and developing or deploying applications in containerized environments
• Experience building CI/CD automation using technologies such as Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and GitHub
• Experience developing or integrating observability capabilities, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, logging, or tracing for distributed systems
• Strong understanding of distributed-system principles, including high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance
• Ability to investigate complex system behavior and translate operational or scalability challenges into engineering solutions
• Comfortable working independently on ambiguous engineering problems and collaborating across multiple teams
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience developing platforms or tooling for Redis, Valkey, or other large-scale distributed database systems
• Experience building automation for database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, failover, or other cluster lifecycle operations
• Experience developing internal platforms, control planes, or infrastructure automation used by other engineering teams
• Experience with scalable messaging systems such as Kafka or RocketMQ

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
• Flexible schedule
• Benefits package - medical insurance, vision, dental, etc.
• Corporate social events
• Professional development opportunities
• Well-equipped office

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