Field Engineer

About The Position

ScyllaDB Field Engineers are an advanced team who respond to escalation in the three stages of customer engagement: before engagement happens by generating marketing and sales collateral like benchmarks and educational articles and content; in the pre-sales process by ensuring that proof-of-concepts are successful; and in the post-sales process handling challenging customer issues when escalation is required.

It's a unique and exciting mixture between technical evangelist, DevOps and SRE, for a unique company that is redefining what performance looks like in the NoSQL arena.

Why ScyllaDB is a fantastic place to work and build your career

• Be a part of the company that’s building the Database Monster – a next-generation NoSQL database focused on innovation and lightning performance.
• Enjoy a fun, inspiring culture that is engineering
• Work with exceptionally talented people around the globe
• Learn, contribute, and make an impact on the product and community
• A truly remote-friendly work culture

Requirements

The ideal candidates will have strong technical experience in one (or more) of the following areas:

• Operations – Systems Administration, DevOps, Network Administration in a Linux based environment:
• We prefer experience administering large-scale production environments, including hardware, operating systems (specifically Linux), networks (including firewalls, switches and load balancers), as well as cloud-based resources (e.g. AWS, Azure, OpenStack, GCP). Experience with containerized solutions (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, swarm) is also a plus.
• Database Administration – SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, MS-SQL) and NoSQL We prefer experience in one or more of: Java, Python, C, C++, Go, Scala.(Scylla, Cassandra, MongoDB etc) are a plus

Software development:

• We prefer experience in one or more of: Java, Python, C, C++, Go, Scala.
• Extra bonus points if you’ve used those skills with distributed systems or have done technical support of enterprise platform technologies (e.g. databases) or enterprise infrastructure (e.g. public/private cloud, virtualized DCs or container clusters).

It’s crucial for every candidate that they can check off all of these boxes:

• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Genuine desire to help people
• Uncontrollable urge to investigate and solve problems, with advanced diagnostic and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to think on your feet, remain calm under pressure, and solve problems in real-time
• Desire and ability to rapidly learn a wide variety of new technical skills
• Strong teamwork: willingness and ability to get help from team members when required, and the good judgment to know when to seek help

Location: Earth. Candidates in the International Space Station will not be considered at this time due to concerns with link latency.

Deadline for applications: 14.11.2021.