We are looking for an exceptional engineer to join our growing team at Nightfall. As a technical lead, you’ll enable us to deliver our platform reliably, securely, and at massive scale. You’ll help architect low latency, real-time microservices that process & detect sensitive data at scale.

This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to identify customer needs and build innovative solutions to solve them
• Design new features and lead the shipping of these features into production 
• Writing and maintaining documentation about internal and public services 
• Mentor junior members of the team 
• Implement best practices in a fast-paced engineering environment

Requirements

• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on technical development experience
• Experience programming in Go, C++, Java or related language
• Experience with developing complex software systems scaling to substantial data volumes or millions of users with production quality deployment, monitoring and reliability.
• Experience designing and building systems in a microservices-based architecture 
• Ability to decompose complex business problems and lead a team in solving them
• A foundational understanding of multi-threaded programming, concurrency primitives, and data structures
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

Bonus Points

• Experience working in high growth venture-backed startups
• Blog, teach, mentor, or help others learn outside of your day to day responsibilities
• Familiarity with AWS and managed infrastructure
• Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes