Highly Skilled Distributed Systems Engineer Wanted for Fast-Growing Social Network

4 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Nextdoor Full time

**Company Overview**

At Nextdoor, we aim to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Our platform connects neighbors worldwide, enabling them to receive trusted information, get help, and build real-world connections.

We're a team of innovators dedicated to delivering high-performance distributed systems that empower our product engineers to focus on their product areas. We operate critical services that power communities across 11 countries, handling over 20 million queries per second.

**Job Description**

You'll join our Core Services team as a key member responsible for identifying high-leverage opportunities to increase Nextdoor's performance, scalability, and resilience. You'll work closely with product engineers to extract performance-critical components into highly optimized horizontal components.

This will involve participating in large-scale distributed system environments, collaborating on projects like building a distributed cache with zone-aware routing in Golang and introducing Strimzi to deploy Kafka. You'll also contribute to the development of a kubernetes native postgres connection pooler.

**Required Skills and Qualifications**

We seek a highly skilled distributed systems engineer with:

  • 5+ years of experience in high-performance distributed systems engineering environments
  • Expertise in operating or building distributed datastores, preferably with a language such as Golang, Rust, C++, Java, or Python
  • Creative collaboration and optimism to solve complex problems without known solutions
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Istio, and other container orchestration primitives is beneficial

**Benefits**

As a valued member of our team, you'll enjoy a comprehensive rewards package, including a competitive salary and benefits, perks, and recognition programs. The estimated starting salary for this role is $210,000 - $265,000 annually, plus a meaningful equity grant.

We strive to create a warm and inclusive work environment that empowers employees to build stronger local communities. Our goal is to have a workforce that reflects the diversity of our neighbors. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply and welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds.



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