Senior Software Engineer (Foundations)

About this role

• As a member of our Foundations team, you’ll independently own well-scoped, meaningful projects that improve the reliability and performance of Peregrine’s data platform; the systems that ingest, process, and enrich large volumes of customer data from a wide variety of sources, at high scale and low latency
• You’ll work within our datastores, orchestrated data pipelines, and the connection, authorization, and notification layers that keep the entire system efficient and secure — extending existing architectural patterns and proposing new ones where they’re needed
• You’ll take on real technical challenges that meaningfully improve the quality, stability, or velocity of the team. Representative recent work at this level includes:
• Contributing to a rewrite of a core datastore’s underlying storage format and helping roll it out safely across environments
• Upgrading a major framework version within a heavily used service without introducing regressions
• Improving database connection-pooling to reduce outage risk
• Building out a new piece of the platform’s authorization system
• Reducing a data-processing backlog’s latency from hours to under a second
• Helping scale and tune our search infrastructure to keep pace with rapid data growth
• Participating in incident response and root-causing production issues

### Benefits

• Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
• Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
• Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
• Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine’s wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
• HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
• Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
• Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
• Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leis...