Senior Staff Software Engineer

About Bazaarvoice   At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products.   The problem we are trying to solve : Brands and retailers struggle to make real connections with consumers. It's a challenge to deliver trustworthy and inspiring content in the moments that matter most during the discovery and purchase cycle. The result? Time and money spent on content that doesn't attract new consumers, convert them, or earn their long-term loyalty.   Our brand promise : closing the gap between brands and consumers.   Founded in 2005, Bazaarvoice is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.   It’s official: Bazaarvoice is a Great Place to Work in the US , Australia, India, Lithuania, France, Germany and the UK!

We're looking for a top-notch Senior Staff Software Engineer to join our team. We're big believers in teamwork, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. The ideal candidate is extremely curious, a strong communicator, and highly enthusiastic about driving cross-team collaboration to meet our objectives. The role involves designing and implementing distributed, fault-tolerant systems that empower not only the success of the team but the organization as a whole.

Necessary skills and experience 15+ years experience with highly scalable distributed systems using open source tools In-depth knowledge of the software development lifecycle (design, build, test, deploy, support) An ability to demonstrate software engineering fundamentals such as OO design, unit testing, code reuse, and code reviews Building large-scale data processing systems with extensive knowledge in data warehousing solutions This includes developing prototypes and proofs-of-concept for the selected solutions Extensive knowledge in different programming/scripting languages such as Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, etc. Advanced understanding and experience in building high-performance algorithms Knowledge of the following technologies or concepts Cloud technology/architecture (preference AWS) Data Lake and Data Warehousing Big-data infrastructures such as Hbase, Hadoop, Mongo, Cassandra, or RDBMS Amazon Web Services like EMR, S3, Lambda, Redshift. Data ETL and data modeling Data Streaming technologies experience a plus (Kafka, Kinesis, etc) Modern build tools such as Maven, Hudson, Github, etc. Agile development methodology Linux

Educational Qualifications: BE/B.TEch or equivalent with good academic credentials