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That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.\nWhat you’ll do\nResponsibilities\nDevelop global architecture by combining less-available components and data centers into a highly available and resilient whole. \nWork on latency-critical, time-sensitive and data redundancy solutions. \nSolve broad range of problems, including investigating Mongo write concerns, minimizing cross-region TLS handshakes, and develop new systems to automate disaster detection and failovers. \nEnable the company to increase the GDP of the internet by providing uptime and data protection.\nWrite code, scope, design, implement, and deploy solutions using multiple technologies, including: Ruby, Java, Mongo, Postgres, and other necessary tools as required.\nInvestigate issues in live, distributed production systems.\nCollaborate across the company to provide an understanding of multi-region architectures, high durability implementation patterns, and best practices. \nLearn, meet, and uphold high engineering standards through design and code review.\nWho you are\nMinimum requirements\nMust have a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, or a related field, plus five (5) years of post-bachelor’s progressive software development work experience. 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