Software Engineer III

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 - 5 years of hands-on software development experience building and operating production services.
• Strong production experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, or strong backend engineering experience in another language with demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on a Node.js service stack.
• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure, especially ECS and EC2, and DevOps fundamentals such as CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and multi-environment deployment.
• Strong algorithms and mathematics skills, with the ability to reason about complexity, data structures, and performance trade-offs.
• Solid grasp of object-oriented and/or functional design, concurrency, troubleshooting, and independent problem-solving.
• Experience working with high-traffic distributed systems, including REST or WebSocket APIs, data interchange formats such as JSON or Protobuf, and basic observability practices such as logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Familiarity with Agile development.
• Openness to using AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Javascript programming experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or CloudFormation, and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or Harness.
• Systems-level experience with memory-mapped files, embedded key-value stores such as RocksDB, caching and eviction algorithms, or pager/streaming reader design.
• Experience with 3D model data, geometry or mesh processing, point clouds, level of detail, compression, or streaming pipelines.
• Experience with CDNs, global data distribution, containerization, or orchestration technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability tooling such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
• Understanding of network protocols such as HTTP/2, QUIC, and WebSockets and their impact on streaming performance.
• Experience with Rust is a plus.