Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Experience writing Java and familiarity with industry best practices

Hands-on experience designing and maintaining data-intensive systems

Memory optimization and performance tuning of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Experience working with streaming  and batch workloads

Experience improving, adapting, and extending a mature codebase

The starting base pay range for this position is:

$145,000 - $165,000 USD per year

. Base pay is part of the total compensation package and is determined by a variety of factors such as relevant skills, work experience, business priorities, market demands, and location. This role offers stock options, providing a direct opportunity to share in Airship’s success.

Competitive medical, dental, and vision insurance options for you and your dependents

Flexible time off, company paid holidays, paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off

We’re looking for a distributed systems engineer to expand the reach and effectiveness of our small Shared Services team.

The ideal candidate uses their skills, experience, and curiosity to explore the system, which includes Java services, Bigtable, Pub/Sub, CloudSQL, and Big Query.

You’ll be hypothesizing, testing theories, documenting observations, and leveraging changes to improve our entire architecture, not just implementing targeted features.

Read, understand, and write code and unit tests (primarily in

Investigate, diagnose, and implement improvements for performance bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies

Implement, test, and deploy architecture and library changes which enable new insights and understanding, including cost modeling/reporting and data patterns

Airship powers customer engagement for some of the world's most recognized brands, processing billions of mobile app interactions through a large-scale distributed data system. The Shared Services team works to improve the efficiency, reliability, and visibility of that system through shared libraries, platform improvements, and automation/tooling.

Airship is trusted by world’s leading brands such as Alaska Airlines, BBC and The Home Depot to drive revenue growth and customer loyalty with exceptional cross-channel customer experiences. Today, brands are challenged to deliver seamless, unified customer experiences across a fragmented array of channels and devices— apps, websites, email, SMS, wallets and more.

Airship’s no-code, AI-powered platform was designed with non-technical, growth-focused teams in mind, making it easy to create, test and orchestrate hyper-personalized experiences across all channels. With the ability to easily enrich customer data and rapidly launch growth experiments, Airship enables brands to deliver consistent, meaningful interactions that accelerate conversion and foster deeper customer relationships.

We invite you to be part of our journey in building products and delivering services that touch millions of customers around the world every day.

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