Backend Engineer, Data Stores: Tenant Scale

What you’ll do  

• Develop new features in collaboration with our product management, UX, and frontend teams.
• Keep changes small and iterate towards the best solution.
• Reviewing Rails and/or database related changes submitted by other engineers or community contributors
• Documenting best practices or patterns to avoid
• Developing tooling to proactively inform developers of potential performance issues
• Research, design and implement solutions to improve product performance 

What you’ll bring 

• Significant experience with Ruby on Rails
• Professional software engineering experience with databases (preferably PostgreSQL) in large production environments
• Familiarity with GraphQL
• Infrastructure / Deployments knowledge (optional).
• Interest in scalability / sharing and system programming languages, like Rust, Go, or Lua (optional).
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• You can reason about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
• You are passionate about open source.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills.
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values.