Staff Software Development Engineer

• Work with members of the team and define the architecture of the system/features, drive design review with the architecture council, and lead the development of the system/features to make RingCentral successful.
• Design and develop highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems following the best architectural principles.
• Leverage your technical leadership to lead a team of focused engineers and apply your experience towards solving our most interesting architecture and implementation challenges in order to achieve stable performance under load with predictable SLA.
• Manage the product development lifecycle and support the created product throughout the entire release cycle.
• Deal with clusters, routers, and grids.
• Work in an Agile team, participate in improving development processes and improve the effectiveness of teamwork.
• Open to using and exploring advanced technologies while solving complex problems.
• Create a product for the most demanding users - other developers.

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent, is required.
• 12+ years in an engineering software development role building backend services and APIs.
• Strong experience leading the design and implementation of robust and highly available and scalable systems/web services using object-oriented methodology, design patterns, SOA, microservices architecture, container technologies, container management/orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
• Proven track record in delivery of event-driven, highly available, scalable, resilient enterprise-grade commercial cloud services.
• Proficiency in developing Java applications.
• Advanced knowledge of Java Core, Collections, Multithreading and Java Memory Model, and Garbage collection.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture paradigm, event-driven system design, distributed systems, and eventual consistency principles.
• Experience developing REST services: REST manifesto, stateful/stateless services, load balancing strategies.
• Strong RDBMS skills: writing advanced queries, designing table structure/indexes/triggers, query optimization/query plan analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a solid understanding of data structure, algorithms, and their applications.
• Hands-on experience deploying applications using Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Kafka or other messaging queues.
• Experience with Contact Center solutions is a plus.
• Experience with AWS-native technologies (S3 DynamoDB, Athena, EC2) is a plus.
• Experience with data stream processing technologies and frameworks (Apache Flink, Apache Spark) is a plus.