We're looking for exceptional developers passionate about Big Data and enthusiastic to gain experience with Big Data technologies. The Big Data team works with Data Scientists to identify new data-based features. These features are then fleshed out and prioritized on the team's product roadmap which they then implement.

The optimal candidate would have excellent programming skills in multiple languages and the ability to adopt new languages and technologies as necessary (like the GO language we use on some projects). We are also excited because this team is growing fast and is in a great place for career advancement as a Software Developer at SendGrid.

What You'll Do

• Solve hard, interesting and important problems!
• Explore new Big Data technologies as needed
• Prototype new data-based features
• Use big data technologies to explore data and make recommendations
• Develop innovative (code) features that use the data
• Work with Ops to provision/manage new big data technologies
• Work in a dynamic team environment with short turn around times
• Work everyday to achieve a high level of engineering excellence. Constantly growing and improving your skills in the company of like minded engineers
• We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be an exhaustive list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do

About You

• BS or MS Computer Science or related technical discipline
• Experience with many of the following: Go, Ruby, Java, C/C++ or Python
• Experience with and passion to learn about Big Data technologies like Hadoop
• A solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, software design and architecture
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
• Competencies in networking, security, deployment, operations, data architecture, Linux/Unix
• Passionate about writing clean, efficient code, and learning new technologies and best practices
• Mission driven, action oriented with a can do, get stuff done attitude