FULLY REMOTE US Principal Platform Engineer

At Jitterbit, our mission is to make apps do more for the people who use them every day.  We make this possible with solutions that democratize integration, making it fast, easy and cost-effective to seamlessly connect your data, apps, and devices.  www.jitterbit.com           

All of our solutions are available on Harmony, the world's fastest cloud integration platform.

Jitterbit is seeking Principal level engineers to join our Platform team.  Jitterbit is an iPaaS (Integration as a Service) and API Management platform that has been recognized in the leader quadrant of Gartner for five straight years.  Our customers use our iPaaS and APIM platform to solve mission-critical business problems.  What is our challenge?  To make it easy to integrate our customers’ systems.  In order to do this, we need to build and create a SaaS offering that is reliable, stable, and scalable for our customers.  Do you have the design, architecting, and code-writing capabilities to take on this challenge?  And can succeed in a big way?

You will be helping us build, design, and architect awesome and new capabilities on our iPaas and APIM Platform.  We are looking for a senior backend engineer.  You will be working with (C++ OR Java), Nginx, Tomcat, Kafka, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes; to name a few of the technologies we use on the platform. 

You will have full lifecycle responsibilities to create robust, scalable, and distributed systems that operate flawlessly 24x7x365.  This is an exciting opportunity to work in a highly innovative environment with new technologies as we continue to extend our market-leading position. 

You are an engineer who can turn ideas into extremely reliable and scalable designs.  You code in such a way that other engineers find your code easy to comprehend, modify, and build upon.  You believe in the power of Integration and APIs to transform how systems are integrated and how applications are built.

You will be successful in this role if you: 

• Enjoy helping and mentoring others around you as you grow and become a successful engineer and developer
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Are capable of working in a distributed team and able to excel in a remote culture
• Are self-driven and able to work on key initiatives
• Take pleasure in making things happen and listen to the input from peers
• Are able to make data-driven decisions
• Are a believer in the best idea strategy regardless of where or who ideas come from

We are looking for:

• 12+ years of experience in building large-scale distributed applications.
• Strong experience building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills with great attention to detail
• Experience with Microservices and Cloud-based architectures/design patterns

Technical Skills and Experience:

• Strong Experience in C++ and Java. Experience with Linux
• Strong experience with top tier RDBMS such as SQL Server and MySQL
• Strong experience with database libraries such as Hibernate and JDBI
• Experience with Apache Server, Apache Tomcat, and Nginx
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Kafka, and LUA scripting is a plus
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience or other evidence of exceptional ability.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.