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Job Description Summary:

The Database/Operating Systems Internals Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware. 

Position Reports to: Manager, Software Engineering 

 

Job Overview:  

The Database/Operating Systems Internals Engineer designs, develops, troubleshoots, debugs, and sets the direction for the design and implementation of software features/functionality/enhancements, correction of defects, and/or the creation of new products. Develops software tools including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases, and Internet-related tools. Determines software’s compatibility with hardware and/or influences software's design in relation to hardware. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

Review and provide feedback on designs. 

Takes ownership of the design and development of features within their component. 

Recognizes and practically solves for anti-patterns. 

Good understanding of how his/her work aligns with high-level use cases and team deliverables. 

Define (more than a feature, less than a product) a component that fits into an architecture. 

Describe and defend design decisions for components owned by the team. 

Optimize software design to leverage platform capabilities. 

Acts as the technical subject matter expert for a product domain. 

Quantify and communicate work estimates and risks to direct management 

Handle multiple competing priorities with minimal help 

Understand features as a whole and able to break down larger stories and features into tasks 

Familiar with most of the technologies we focus on and what markets they target 

Takes ownership of customer issues and effectively communicate with Support/SEs to resolve field questions/issues 

Discuss with customers what larger concerns and problems they are trying to solve, over and above the immediate technical concerns 

Willingness to teach and grow junior team members 

Excellent listening skills 

Effectively works within the team and across teams 

Ensures all tasks are completed thoroughly and that any work done is tested, unit tested, documented, and ready for customers 

Takes identified problems and concerns and create a plan to fix the problem and prevent it from occurring again 

Follows through on all tasks 

Reliably delivers expected work products and outcomes 

Imparts a sense of urgency on junior team members 

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Required Qualifications:  

8+ years of software engineering experience 

Mastery of data structures and algorithms. 

Able to select data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems. 

Able to write high-quality code  

Able to present a track record of solving problems of increasing complexity 

Good understanding of trade-offs in solving problems that have variable levels of complexity. 

Deep understanding of memory allocation and management mechanism, security mechanisms, processing allocation mechanisms of target operating systems. 

Ability to design and implement TypeScript/JavaScript interfaces between application code and operating system and infrastructural facilities

Understanding of how to write bullet-proof, well-defined multi-processing code

Ability to develop facilities for large-scale systems, including scale-up, scale-out, hot-standby, error recovery, data backup, and so on

Ability to build facilities to measure system performance and use performance metrics and architectural understanding to improve system performance

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

Experience with the C++ and other lower-level languages

Experience working with the V8 embedder API

Expertise in containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes

Familiarity with security interfaces including TLS/SSL (including certificate management and validation), Kerberos, LDAP, OAuth, and others 

Familiarity with modern development environments and standards.

Active participation in operating system, database, and/or networking communities, including contribution to open source projects

 

Education: 

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent practical experience

Travel Requirements:  

0-10%

Job Family Group: Engineering 

Job Family: Software & Quality Assurance Engineering 

Job Profile Name: Senior Software Engineer  

Employee Type:Individual Contributor  

Job Level: P4 (Advanced) 

The base salary range for this role is $124,556.33 - $155,695.33 /year. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

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What Rocket Software can offer you in USA:

Extensive paid time off programs (paid holidays, sick, and unlimited vacation time)Healthcare coverage options to fit you (and your family’s) needsRetirement savings, with matching contributions by Rocket SoftwareLife and disability coverageLeadership and skills training opportunitiesTwo paid work days for off-site training

EOE M/F/Vet/Disability.  Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Rocket is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.  If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call: 781-577-4321 or send an email to people@rocketsoftware.com.  We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.

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