SendGrid is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a wide range of technical skills and expertise who are interested in solving large-scale development problems, like how to deliver billions of transactional emails per month in a secure and scalable way.

As a software engineer at SendGrid, you will work on a small, versatile and passionate team, tackling new problems as we continue to push our technology forward. You will design, test, deploy and maintain software solutions that solve developers’ problems at-scale. 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.

What You'll Do

• Research & develop new technologies to support reliable, highly distributed, and high transaction services
• Develop highly dynamic, distributed, resilient, concurrent and secure services at scale to 10k+ transactions/sec to support the core platform
• Contribute to the improvement & re-architecture of the core platform to support continuous system scaling
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of software development best practices in the areas of tools, languages, and APIs
• Contribute ideas to improve our services
• Write clean, efficient code
• Work with local and remote team members
• Work in a fast paced environment with short turn around times, while developing and maintaining a high quality code base
• Continued growth through developer conferences and technical training
• Work in a tech stack that includes but is not limited to: Go, Java, Python, Perl, MySQL, NoSQL, Riak, Kafka, Storm, and AWS services such as (EC2, S3, RDS, Kinesis, Dynamo, Redshift etc)
• 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, MS, PhD in Computer Science, related technical discipline, or relevant work experience
• 7+ years in software development
• 4+ years proficient programming experience in Java and Python preferred
• Experience with languages such as Java, Python & Ruby
• Several years experience with high transaction services & APIs
• Experience with high scale systems software design preferred
• Experience building fault tolerant systems in high transaction environments preferred
• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, software design and architecture, and OO design
• Experience with service oriented architecture and highly scalable services
• Familiarity with frameworks such as Rails, DJango, Backbone.js & Ampersand.js
• Knowledge of Linux
• Experience with GIT
• System administration experience
• Experience with the SMTP protocol
• Write clean, efficient, testable code
• Strong experience with service development and deployment in the cloud
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong communication skills, ability to express technical concepts in verbal and written form
• Self motivated, works well without supervision, sees commitments through completion
• Ability to work and participate on a team in an open collaborative environment
• Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic team
• Willing to experiment with new tech because it’s your nature, not your job

Bonus Points

• Experience with Go (Golang), C++, Node.js, NoSQL databases, scaling apps and systems, unit/functional testing and quality assurance
• You’ve written software tools to manage 1000+ servers
• You’ve made contributions to a widely used open source project
• You are conversant in the pros and cons of different cloud services
• You don’t just learn how things work, you learn why
• Familiarity with Chef & Ansible
• Distributed real time systems development