Senior Software Engineer – LogScale Search

Jobtailor; Aarhus; On-site; DKK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Aarhus is seeking an experienced software engineer to help scale our distributed backend and guide cross-team initiatives. You will own design reviews, pair programming and documentation to ensure high quality delivery.

You will develop the LogScale backend in Scala, bridge customer needs with product goals and help maintain high availability across regions. Strong leadership, collaboration and a passion for scalable systems are essential.

Qualifications

• Interest in distributed systems and curiosity about running systems.
• Experience in software development and balancing short-term delivery with long-term product goals.
• Experience contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services.
• Fluency in both functional and object-oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go.
• A can-do attitude, and thrive collaborating in a team and taking on responsibilities.
• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services across multiple regions.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts to contributors and management.
• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making and workflows.
• Bonus: Experience programming in Scala.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kafka.

Responsibilities

• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance.
• Lead by example on customer and product focus and operational excellence by monitoring features released to customers and troubleshooting issues.
• Deliver cross-team platform-level initiatives by scoping, designing and developing new features for open-ended problems.
• Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extend the product to scale with ingest and query load while ensuring high availability.
• Collaborate across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving internal documentation.

Skills

Scala Programming

Distributed Systems

Operational Excellence

AI Technologies

Problem-Solving

Communication

Team Collaboration

Customer Focus

Can-Do Attitude

Tools

Kafka

Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Log Management

Cybersecurity Products

Job description

• Work in a team of friendly, trustworthy and knowledgeable colleagues supporting each other through code reviews, pairing, documentation, design reviews and technical guidance.


• Lead by example on customer and product focus, as well as on hands-on operational excellence by monitoring and following up on features released to customers and troubleshooting critical customer issues.


• Deliver cross-team platform-level initiatives and projects by owning or participating in scoping, designing and developing of new features to open-ended problems.


• Develop the LogScale backend in Scala and extending our product to keep LogScale scale with increasing ingest and query load while ensuring high availability.


• Collaborate with your peers across teams on defining and delivering new solutions, design documents, technical talks and improving our internal documentation.

Requirements

• A passion for or personal interest in distributed systems and curiosity of how our running systems are doing


• Experience in software development in general and the ability to juggle making pragmatic tradeoffs between short-time delivery needs vs long-term product goals


• Experience in contributing to broad technical leadership in products or services


• Fluency in both functional and object oriented programming and the ability to pick up new languages on the go


• A can-do attitude, and that you thrive collaborating in a team and are not afraid of taking on responsibilities


• Demonstrated track record of operational excellence when operating services that span many components across several geographical regions;


• Ability to communicate and articulate technical concepts crisply to individual contributors and management.


• Proven experience utilizing AI technologies to enhance decision-making, streamline workflows and processes, improve efficiency and drive business outcomes.


• Bonus Points: Experience programming in Scala.


• Experience with commercial clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).


• Experience with Kafka.


• Hands on experience in large-scale (distributed) system architecture, high scalability and availability, and optimization - over 1 trillion requests per day or more than 10 PB of data per day.


• Exposure to or experience with Log Management or cybersecurity products.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Scala programming and large-scale distributed system architecture, ensuring high availability and operational excellence. Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, collaborate across teams, and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Scala Programming


• Distributed Systems


• Operational Excellence


• AI Technologies


• Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Software Development


• Functional Programming


• Object-Oriented Programming


• Large-Scale System Architecture


• High Scalability


• High Availability


• Kafka


• Log Management


• Cybersecurity Products

Soft Skills

• Team Collaboration


• Communication


• Problem-Solving


• Customer Focus
  
• Can-Do Attitude