Senior Software Engineer (Online Data Stores)

Join Persona, a growing company building the identity layer for the internet. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Online Data Stores team, you'll play a key role in building, maintaining, and evolving our data storage solutions. You'll collaborate closely with other engineering teams, optimize data storage solutions, and contribute to automation and observability. This is a fully remote position with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems.

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and secure data stores used across our application stack.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and application teams to optimize data storage solutions for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and advocate for best practices for data modeling, access patterns, monitoring, and incident response.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on large-scale, distributed data systems
• Strong technical expertise in designing and operating scalable data storage solutions, ideally with the technologies we use (MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis)
• BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a focus on cross-functional teamwork
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and container orchestration systems like Kubernetes
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• Software development experience in general-purpose programming languages (Ruby, Go, Python, Java) with a preference for experience in Ruby on Rails and ORMs
• Deep understanding of data consistency, replication, partitioning, and high availability strategies
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and technologies, particularly Google Cloud (or equivalent cloud providers)
• Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations