InfluxData is a fast-growing Series D startup that offers InfluxDB, a time series database recognized industry-wide as the clear leader of the fastest growing database category. InfluxDB is running on hundreds of thousands of machines, used by teams worldwide to monitor and understand their systems and devices. The majority of our users are developers and builders using our open source software, but we also offer enterprise and cloud SaaS products, all exposing a single unified API.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer with extensive backend experience to own cross-cutting concerns such as service protection, authorization and identity management, and API design.

What You'll Be Doing 

• Design and maintain InfluxCloud's Rate Limiting system, balancing Paid Tier availability and Free Tier capacity.
• Continue to iterate InfluxDB's API toward a single unified experience across all our products.
• Own the delivery of large initiatives, engaging with stakeholders and subject matter experts to drive new product capabilities from whiteboard to production.
• Solve scalability and performance issues in a constantly evolving operating environment with 24/7 uptime.
• Establish and uphold engineering best practices applied across projects and teams.
• Mentor and level up fellow teammates with pairing and code reviews.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• 5+ years of professional engineering experience building and shipping multi-tenant software with SaaS and on-prem delivery models.
• Advanced experience designing, extending and maintaining well-tested Go microservices.
• Experience with REST and gRPC service design.
• Experience deploying on, and integrating with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud environments.
• Working knowledge of Git (and GitHub).
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.

Bonus If You Have

• Experience working with distributed development teams.
• Experience with non-relational databases (one or more of MongoDB, Redis, Etcd).
• Exposure to agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc).

Many InfluxData employees are remote* so you have your choice of working remote or out of our San Francisco office. (*From a remote perspective, we currently support the UK, Germany, Italy and the following US states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, MA, MD, MN, NC, NJ, NY, OK, OH, OR, TX, UT, VA, WA.

*While for some roles, we welcome candidates from boot camps/junior candidates, for this role we are looking for an engineer who has 5 or more years of working experience in similar roles.*

InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading open source time series database. We are a Series D-funded startup, backed by Sapphire Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures, and a Y Combinator success story. Headquartered in San Francisco, InfluxData’s workforce is distributed throughout the U.S. and across Europe. The company was recently named one of the 50 Best Workplaces for Innovators by Fast Company. 

Our technology is purpose-built to handle the massive volumes of time-stamped data produced by IoT devices, applications, networks, containers and computers. We are on a mission to help developers and organizations, such as Cisco, IBM, PayPal, and Tesla, store and analyze real-time data, empowering them to build transformative monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications quicker and to scale.

We offer fantastic benefits; in the US these include:

• Medical/ dental/vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees and dependents
• Company contribution to FSA and commuter benefits
• Open PTO - take the time you need
• Life lnsurance, short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401k (non matching)
• ....and more!

Our Core Values

Our employees are the heart of the company and only by having a core set of beliefs and values will we be successful. We hire and live by these core values:

• We value each other
• We get stuff done
• We believe humility drives learning
• We embrace failure
• We are committed to open source

Visit our careers page to learn more about working at InfluxData.

InfluxData is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

InfluxData does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters and recruitment agencies through our website, job board or directly to employees. InfluxData will not pay fees to any third-party agency, headhunter or company that does not have a signed agreement for this position in place.