Sr. Software Engineer - Email Compliance
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Are you passionate about fighting spam and serving the greater good? Do you enjoy a challenge and relish pushing yourself to learn and grow in an ever changing environment? Do you want to work with talented people and solve hard, important problems? If you said yes… read on and come join our awesome team.
As a compliance software engineer you will work with a small, versatile, and passionate team, tackling new problems as we continue to push our technology forward to fight phishers and spammers. You will design, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions that help protect our email infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to write mission-critical code that enables us to achieve our goal of simplifying communication between businesses and their customers. You are going to challenged, you are going to learn, and you are going to fight the bad guys.
While we do send 2% of the world’s wanted email, SendGrid is much more than an email company, and our mission has much greater scope. To handle messaging at-scale requires expertise from nearly every area of computer science. From the basics of data structures and algorithms to more esoteric domains like machine learning, high scale No-SQL systems, or the inner workings of MTAs and email standards.
What You'll Do
- Enthusiastically solve hard, interesting, and important problems
- Fight SPAM and keep our network clean of malicious email to stop bad actors
- Work with passionate, top-notch engineers on very large distributed systems
- Work in a dynamic team environment with short turn around times
- Contribute ideas to improve our service, software, and development process
- Work everyday to achieve a high level of engineering excellence, constantly growing and improving your skills in the company of like minded engineers
- Work in a diverse and vibrant community of professionals who value work life balance and strive to make a big impact while having lots of fun
- We're an agile, fast growing company and this job description isn't meant to be a complete list of your qualifications or all the things you'll do
About You
- Mission driven, action oriented with a can do, get stuff done attitude
- BS or MS Computer Science or related technical discipline
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and debugging skills
- 7-10+ years in software and systems development
- Takes initiative and is able to work effectively in a team environment
- Passionate about writing clean, efficient code and continuously improving your skills
- Experience with data structures, algorithms, software design, and architecture
- Experience with one or more of the following: Go, Ruby, Java, C/C++ or Python, Perl
- Experience with Cloud and Big Data technologies such as Cassandra, Riak, Hadoop, MapReduce, Amazon EC2
- Good understanding of Agile software development
- Proficient with Linux or *NIX and CLI tools
- Experience with JavaScript and CSS/HTML a plus
- Experience with service oriented architecture and scalable services a plus
SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.
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