Software Engineer II - Cadence

Requirements

• Strong systems programming experience in Go (Golang), or deep expertise in languages like Java/C++/Rust with a proven ability to learn Go quickly.
• A solid understanding of and practical experience with distributed systems concepts, including concurrency, fault tolerance, and consensus.
• Experience building, testing, and operating large-scale, high-availability services and working with persistent storage systems (e.g., Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL).

Nice to Haves

• Significant contributions to open-source distributed systems or database projects (e.g., Cadence, Temporal, gRPC, Kafka, Vitess).
• Deep expertise in performance analysis, benchmarking, and optimization of low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Advanced knowledge of database internals, storage engines, or complex query optimization.
• Experience with formal verification, advanced consistency models, or consensus algorithms (like Paxos or Raft).

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, implement, and test new features and core components of the Cadence workflow engine in Go.
• Diagnose and resolve complex bugs and performance bottlenecks in a distributed, multi-tenant environment.
• Optimize and scale the engine's core components, including its -persistence layer, sharding, and task dispatching logic.
• Collaborate with the open-source community by reviewing pull requests, participating in design discussions, and improving documentation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the reliability and operation of the services built on the engine.

Perks and Benefits

• Unspecified perks and benefits could be available as listed on the company's official website.