Software Engineer (Backend Engineer)

Job Description:

What is the opportunity?

As a Member of Technical Staff, you will be responsible for:

• Design, build and maintain reliable, reusable, testable code that expands our platform’s core services and capabilities, while also enhancing their scalability and resilience.
• Identify and troubleshoot performance and code quality issues.
• you will take ownership of engineering initiatives and promote a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.
• Active engagement with different stake holders - Product Managers, Solution Architects, Security Engineering, other members within Engineering and External Partners as needed to define and deliver the required solution.
• We operate with Dev own quality mindset, which will require your active participation in all stages of software development - requirement, design, coding, test automation and debugging.
• Perform code reviews and ensure coding best practices.

What will you bring to Omnissa?

You are expected to have strong experience in the following:

• Deep hands-on experience with Kafka, including topic design, partitions, replication, retention, and consumer group behavior.
• Experience operating Kafka in production, including performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• High proficiency and experience in Unix/Linux platforms.
• Strong working experience with Python, Docker and Terraform/IAC.
• Good understanding of and experience in software architecture and high-performance, scalable distributed systems.
• Solid grasp of application architecture, networking, security, reliability, and scalability concepts.
• Strong DevOps experience, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaboration skills for working with distributed teams (Omnissa has teams globally).
• 2-10 years of experience in software engineering.

Additionally, the following skills and qualifications will help  you stand-out:

• Experience with managed Kafka services (e.g., AWS MSK).
• Familiarity with streaming or event‑driven architectures beyond basic pub/sub.
• Exposure to Kafka security (TLS, SASL, ACLs, IAM-based auth), schema management, or Kafka Connect
• Comprehensive knowledge and work experience with any or all of the following technologies: Redis, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch.
• Strong foundation in Linux file systems, memory, and multi-threading.
• Experience maintaining a large number of production deployments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud solutions and managed cloud services like MSK and Aurora, OpenSearch.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as OS (Linux and Windows), Network, Database, Server, Storage, etc.