Senior Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

Vodafone; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone is looking for innovative engineers to join the DataHub Engineering team. The role focuses on building and maintaining distributed data infrastructure, requiring proficiency in programming languages and a solid educational background. Candidates should have problem-solving skills and an interest in continuous learning in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with an object-oriented programming language (preferably Python or Golang).
• Prior experience diagnosing failures in MySQL/MyRocks engines.
• Experience building reliable data infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain large clusters of Distributed Datastores.
• Ensure platform reliability, observability, and efficiency.
• Customize Kubernetes clusters.

Skills

Problem Solving

Curiosity

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Engineering

Degree in Mathematics

Tools

Linux

Kubernetes

MySQL

OpenTofu

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Bloomberg runs on data, it's our business and our product. The DataHub Engineering team provides a distributed platform for hosting datasets, complete with managed data stores, search, discovery, lakehouse and real-time stream processing capabilities. The platform provides a single place in the company to discover, access, publish and subscribe to data.

The DataHub team introduced the abstraction of "dataset", and invented a schema language to formally define all data at Bloomberg, complete with schema evolution, versioning, and true point in time semantics. We were the first team to introduce Kafka, Avro, company-wide Dataset Schema Registry, Mesos, Clustered MySQL, Vitess and Spark for ETL, at Bloomberg for designing this new data intensive platform that is the hub of financial datasets. The DataHub's DataOps and Infrastructure team designs, engineers and operates the infrastructure powering the DataHub platform.

Who are you?
We're looking for innovative problem solvers who enjoy pursuing complex issues to their root cause. Curiosity, kindness, and an appetite to continually learn and share knowledge are key traits to being a member of DataHub. On a technical level, we're looking for engineers who have proficiency and an interest in the following stack - Linux, Kubernetes, MySQL/RocksDB and infrastructure tools like OpenTofu, Ansible, OpenTelemetry.

We'll trust you to:

• Design, build and maintain large clusters of Distributed Datastores composed of engines like MySQL/MyRocks scaled using Vitess to Petabytes of data with millisecond response on billions of reads and writes across 100s of independent financial applications
• Ensure platform reliability, observability and efficiency
• Customize Kubernetes clusters

You'll need to have:

• Experience with an object-oriented programming language (ideally Python or Golang)
• Prior experience diagnosing failures in MySQL/MyRocks engines, replication protocols
• Experience building reliable data infrastructure
• A Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, similar field of study or equivalent work experience

We'd love to see

• Any of your contributions in open source to Vitess, MySQL, RocksDB, MyRocks
• Vitess Production Experience
• Experience building custom resource controllers and Kubernetes operators.

About Us:
Meet the DataHub Engineering Team - https://www.techatbloomberg.com/blog/meet-the-team-datahub-engineering/

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