Software Engineer - Distributed Systems Engineer

at  Capgemini

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As Software Engineer/Developer, you will work on one of the world’s largest social media platforms which deals with a few petabytes of data coming to the system daily. You will contribute as part of R&D self-organized team working in a challenging, innovative environment for our client. Investigate, create, and implement the solutions for many technical challenges using cutting edge technologies, including building/enhancing data processing platform enabling work of software used by hundreds of millions of users.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• University degree in Computer Related Sciences or similar
• Over 5+ years of experience and proficiency in C++ programming languages
• Extensive development experience with distributed storage systems such as HBase, Apache Druid, and Apache Cassandra.
• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant industry experience in software development, with a focus on distributed storage systems
• Strong OOPs skill
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new programming languages as required by project demands.

• Obtains tasks from the project lead or Team Lead (TL), prepares functional and design and approves them with all stakeholders.
• Ensures that assigned area/areas are delivered within set deadlines and required quality objectives.
• Provides estimations, agrees task duration with the manager and contributes to project plan of assigned area.
• Evaluate existing data systems.
• Developing best practices for data coding to ensure consistency within the system.
• Updating and optimizing local and metadata models.
• Evaluating implemented data systems for variances, discrepancies, and efficiency.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing data systems.
• Understand the business drivers and analytical use-cases and translate these to data products.
• Design, implement and maintain pipelines that produce business critical data reliably and efficiently using cloud technology.
• Initiates and conducts code reviews, creates code standards, conventions, and guidelines.