Flanksource is on a mission to revolutionise incident response and collaboration between application, infrastructure, cloud, and vendor teams, eliminating painful and frustrating feedback loops. With our flagship product, Mission Control, we provide an application-focused view that aggregates health, configuration, change, and logs, enabling teams to communicate objectively and navigate the system context with ease.

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Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the open-source flanksource product suite in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Recognise impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Benefits:

• Remote first culture - work from anywhere in the world.
• Flexible working hours - Choose both when and how much you work
• Paid contribution to open-source projects in and around the kubernetes eco-system.
• Annual development budget to spend on conferences, books, courses, etc..

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms
• Experience working with a remote team
• Some SQL Experience (Ideally PostgresSQL)
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organisational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• Comfort working in a highly agile, iterative software development process
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organisational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organisation
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Nice-to-haves

• Some NoSQL Experience (Ideally Elasticsearch or Mongo)
• Some Time Series DB Experience (Ideally Prometheus or TimescaleDB)
• Product company experience
• Enterprise software company experience
• Developer platform/tool industry experience
• Experience working with a global or otherwise multicultural team
• Computer science education or equivalent experience
• Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools