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Job Description
Who we are
Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT, or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run, and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights, and insanely fast search.
Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host, and container flow, Internet routing, performance tests, and network metrics. We show network pros what they need to know about their network performance, health, and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world’s most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik. Market leaders like IBM, Box, and Zoom rely on Kentik for network observability. Visit us at and follow us at .
About the role
Kentik backend services ingest, enrich and store traffic metadata and metrics from the world’s largest networks. They gather configuration and topology snapshots, actively monitor our customer’s infrastructure and trigger automated responses in response to outages and attacks. Together, they form an internet-scale, highly available, distributed system that is the foundation to Kentik’s ability to deliver complete end-to-end network observability to our customers.
Our platform services support Kentik’s microservice architecture, including our API gateway, core services such as rate-limiting, user authentication & authorization, runtime configuration and feature flags, deployment primitives and more.
We are looking for experienced backend engineers wanting to apply their skills and experience taking Kentik to an industrial scale, specifically providing a solid, state-of-the-art foundation.
We have built a team of world-class engineers, network experts, and influential technologists in a remote-first culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required, we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills, as well as a high level of independence and autonomy.
US time zones are strongly preferred (PT ideal).
What to expect
- Interacting closely with product managers and engineering managers to help define, plan and execute on project plans
- Developing new features, performance improvements and bug fixes in a modern highly scalable SaaS platform
- Participating in code reviews
- Regularly collaborating with other engineering teams, as well as support and sales teams
- Working on high-visibility, challenging engineering problems
You may be a good fit if you have
- Passion for what you do and a willingness to grow and contribute to our team
- Prior experience or strong interest for working on large scale SaaS systems
- 3+ years experience with Go, Python, Node or similar
- A good understanding of SQL syntax, especially with PostgreSQL and MySQL
- Good communication skills
- Experience on any relevant areas to network observability (SNMP, Streaming Telemetry, BGP, general metrics collection, etc.)
Our tech stack
- Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
- We use Node.js + Express for application serving, and React as our primary UI framework
- We also use some JS and Python for tooling/scripting
- In addition to our own database, we use Postgres, Kafka, Mysql, and Redis
- Internal and public APIs expose both rest/json and gRPC endpoints
- Haproxy, Envoy for API traffic routing and balancing
- Github for source control, PRs, issues
- Jenkins for automated builds
Perks*
- 100% company-paid health insurance for you and your dependents
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) for you and your dependents
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DCFSA)
- Stock options
- Vanguard 401(k)
- Flexible time off
- Parental and medical leave
- Monthly wellness stipend
- A generous budget for new equipment and home office set up
- Internet and phone reimbursement
- Remote work
- And more!
*Perks are as listed for US employees. Local health insurance coverage and similar perks vary for employees outside of the US.
Come work with us
The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. We’re committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice, has a sense of belonging, and is represented at Kentik.
We don’t look for individuals who fit the culture, but those who will continue to add to the culture.
We encourage everyone to apply, especially those individuals who are underrepresented in the industry: people of color, LGBTQI+ community, women, individuals with disabilities (both seen and unseen), veterans, and people of any age or family status.
Come as you are!
You will be working at a fast-growing, well-funded startup alongside industry thought leaders and network aficionados as we build the future of observability and set the high bar for how network operations and digital businesses should run. With a competitive salary and amazing benefits on top of the meaningful and challenging projects you’ll take on, we’re sure you’ll enjoy joining the Kentik team.
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