Software Engineer

Join CtrlB as a Software Engineer to develop a fast, intuitive, and reliable product essential for developers monitoring and troubleshooting systems at scale. You will engineer high-volume data pipelines, distributed systems, and customer-facing features, optimizing data flow and real-time user insights. Your contributions will directly impact developers globally, solving complex performance and reliability challenges while building a powerful yet user-friendly platform. Tackle intricate engineering problems involving vast datasets, low-latency processing, and scalable architecture in a highly skilled team environment that champions ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and scale core services to manage high-volume data and distributed workloads.
• Take features from conception to production, including testing, monitoring, and safe, incremental rollouts. Troubleshoot and resolve production system issues.
• Enhance system performance, reduce latency, and architect services for increased data throughput.
• Collaborate with the team to define priorities, decompose complex problems, and plan future initiatives.
• Partner with product and design teams to translate customer needs into robust technical solutions.
• Contribute across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in a hybrid engineering model, encompassing design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing.
• Participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical leadership.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Full-time availability and willingness to work from the office 6 days a week.
• A strong passion for designing and engineering highly efficient and competitive architectures.
• Solid understanding of operating systems, Database Management Systems (DBMS), and networking concepts.
• Familiarity with data structures, algorithms, profiling, and optimization techniques.
• Appreciation for code simplicity, performance, and meticulous attention to detail.
• Experience with languages like Go and Rust is considered a bonus.
• Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, complemented by a deep understanding of both relational and non-relational databases.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and a profound understanding of software development best practices.