Staff Software Engineer
Posted on 4/3/2023
INACTIVE
Peloton

1,001-5,000 employees

Interactive fitness platform with on-demand classes
Company Overview
Peloton Interactive is a global leader in the connected fitness industry, offering a comprehensive fitness ecosystem that combines top-tier equipment, software, and content to make fitness accessible and effective for everyone. The company's culture is centered around fostering social connections and motivation among its 6.7 million members, with a vast library of live and on-demand studio classes available across multiple platforms and devices. Peloton's competitive advantage lies in its unique blend of fitness, technology, and media, offering a variety of membership and payment options, and extending its reach to corporate wellness and commercial sectors.
Consumer Software

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

$1.9B

Founded

2011

Headquarters

New York, New York

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-7%

2 year growth

-24%
Locations
New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
Junior
Mid
Senior
Expert
Desired Skills
Kotlin
gRPC
Kubernetes
Agile
Python
MySQL
NoSQL
Git
Postgres
Jenkins
Terraform
Redis
MongoDB
REST APIs
Cassandra
CategoriesNew
DevOps & Infrastructure
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience developing high-performance, highly scalable backend cloud application systems
  • A valued team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team that inspires others
  • Hands-on experience building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services
  • Expertise in Kotlin, Python, or similar languages
  • Hands-on experience decomposing monoliths into microservices
  • Hands-on experience implementing event-driven architectures
  • Experience interfacing with members of other teams to gain clarity, triage issues, and drive cross-functional initiatives
  • Experience with both relational (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB, Cassandra, Mongo) databases
  • Experience with caching technologies such as Memache, Redis
  • Experience with request processing such as REST, gRPC, or GraphQL
  • Familiar with deployment toolings/environments such as Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc
Responsibilities
  • Enhance and operate business-critical APIs and services with a focus on high availability, low latency, security and scalability
  • Propose, experiment, and implement solutions to scale services while meeting business and product requirements. Leverage production monitoring/profiling/tracing and load testing tools to discover bottlenecks and using techniques such as data modeling, query optimization, and caching to address the bottlenecks
  • Be a technical leader within the team you work with and cross functionally within Peloton. Be able to identify common patterns as well as develop and foster development of reusable components and standards across teams
  • Coordinate technical projects across teams within Peloton
  • Be a valued member of an autonomous, multi-functional agile team
  • Use industry-standard, cloud-native tech, which means easily transferable skills
  • Bring in best practices of software development in your team and evangelize across teams