c++ developer

Quantum Corp. leads the world in helping users collaboratively solve some of the world's hardest computer challenges. Whether its wrangling Petabytes of data for cutting edge movie production, managing global content production workflows, exploring new sources of energy, or managing oceans of content and blending collaborative high-speed workflows with cutting-edge object storage, Quantum has the tools and technology to help you engineer the solution that works now - and preserves your work for decades to come. You are applying to an exceptional team that contributes to enhancing our position as a proven global expert in data management.

Job Summary and Duties:

This position will highlight new product development, as well as feature development and bug fixing of existing products serving the expanding big data, NAS, virtualization, replication, and file systems market. This position is required to be well rounded in operating system including all flavors of Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Building specialized core (user space and kernel space) software is the main function of this role.

Specific duties include but are not limited to:

• Development and maintenance of new Primary Storage products.

• Investigating and resolving issues in existing products related application workflows, cross-platform interactions, and new operating systems.

• Triage and disposition incoming issues from support cases, customer interactions, and new feature requests.

Job Requirements:

• Minimum 8 years of combined education and experience including 5 years of C/C++ programming.

• Expertise with SMB/NFS networking protocol stacks (Samba).

• Filesystem VFS layer expertise (Samba VFS modules).

• Experience with Python and Linux shell programming.

• Experience with SAN and Ethernet networking technologies.

• Ability to work in a team environment.

• Strong communication skills.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of kernel internals including any of the following: Linux and Mac OS X.

• Interfaces with special purpose file system APIs and web services required.

• Knowledge and experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, Docker)

• Knowledge and experience with Virtualization technologies: ESX, KVM

• Experience working in an Agile environment using CI methodologies.

Database Administrator Lead - PostgreSQL

ABOUT Ashnik

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate people to be part of the team for an upcoming project at client location.

RESPONSIBILITIES

· Monitoring database performance

· Optimizing Queries and handle escalations

· Analyse and assess the impact and risk of low to medium risk changes on high profile production databases

· Implement security features

· DR implementation and switch over

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

· Preferably have a working experience of 4 Years and more , on production PostgreSQL DBs.

· Experience of working in a production support environment

· Engineering or Equivalent degree

· Passion for open-source technologies is desired

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

· Install & Configure PostgreSQL, Enterprise DB

· Technical capabilities PostgreSQL 9.x, 10.x, 11.x

· Server tuning

· Troubleshooting of Database issues

· Linux Shell Scripting

· Install, Configure and maintain Fail Over mechanism

· Backup - Restoration, Point in time database recovery

· A demonstrable ability to articulate and sell the benefits of modern platforms, software and technologies.

· A real passion for being curious and a continuous learner. You are someone that invests in yourself as much as you invest in your professional relationships.

LOCATION: Bangalore & Mumbai

Experience: 7 yrs plus

Package: upto 20 LPA

• You solve problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context.
• You develop pragmatic solutions and build flexible systems that balance engineering complexity and timely delivery, creating business impact.
• You understand a broad range of data structures and algorithms and apply them to deliver high-performing applications.
• You recognize and use design patterns to solve business problems.
• You understand how operating systems work, perform and scale.
• You continually align your work with Amazon’s business objectives and seek to deliver business value.
• You collaborate to ensure that decisions are based on the merit of the proposal, not the proposer.
• You proactively support knowledge-sharing and build good working relationships within the team and with others in Amazon.
• You communicate clearly with your team and with other groups and listen effectively.

You will be building efficient, scalable & high performance microservices and applications which will power the network of thousands of retailers across the country and at the same time improve the efficiency and visibility of information flow in our supply chain systems.

Your core responsibilities:

• Create elegant, efficient and maintainable software to support and extend our current products.
• Solve complex architectural challenges when implementing new features.
• Integrate with databases, file systems, cloud services when delivering scalable solutions.
• Troubleshoot and fix reported customer issues, delivering software patches as needed.
• Assisting in making design decisions based on performance, scalability, security, and future expansion.
• Communicating and collaborating with management, product, QA teams.

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
• Proficiency in web development using any of the languages: PHP, Python, Java, NodeJS or Golang.
• Should possess a solid grasp of object-oriented programming, system architecture & design, databases, development, and testing methodologies.
• Good in Design (HLD and LLD).
• Good in Database schema design.
• Good to have experience with AWS or Google Cloud or Azure and serverless architecture.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Track record of delivering successful products as an engineer.
• Experience with large applications of some scale will be a plus.
• Ability to deep dive, understand & improve the legacy code.
• Domain knowledge of supply chain & retail industry is a plus.

Whom you will be sharing your work day with? 

• We are in the forefront of disrupting traditional retail & supply chain industry by building distributed systems
• We are hardcore open source lovers and believe in the strength of open source community.
• We believe technology can change the way information is consumed.
• We use a data driven approach to build new products and features.
• Build new tech solutions to improve business processes and enable our various departments to help service our teams better.
• We embrace and enable DevOps culture within the organisation.

And yes! We do have new furry friends coming to our office everyday.

Work Perks

• Hybrid work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere. 
• A great salary, commensurate with experience.
• Unlimited vacation policy which means Paid Vacations.
• A relaxed & flexible working atmosphere.
• Weekly parties (Unofficial).
• Paid outings to remote work locations and industry events/conferences.
• Paid Health Insurance for you and your loved ones.

• Write a significant amount of code for new and existing databases and related systems
• Scale and own these backend systems and databases
• Ship high-quality code and architecture
• Mentor engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
• Work with the founders to flesh out the future of the product
• Help shape the future of our engineering organization

Requirements

• A passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, replication protocols, file systems & correctness
• You have been building applications for 5+ years with C/C++ or Rust and have significant backend, database, or systems-level programming experience
• You have a BS/MS/Ph.D. in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
• You are comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, Zoom, etc. in the open and as a self-starter

Bonus points:

• Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals
• Experience with Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet
• Know how columnar databases work
• Know how to convert an algorithm to use SIMD instructions
• Good knowledge of Linux internals
• You’ve contributed to open-source libraries and actively participate in the development community (blogging, giving talks, meetups, tweeting, etc.)