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Outcold Solutions LLC. lists this Senior Software Engineer opportunity in deland, Florida. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About the role
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join Outcold Solutions. We are a small, independent company, and you will work across the whole product with the founder and the rest of the team: the Collectord agent, the Splunk apps, the services behind them, and everything our customers read and watch.
This is a systems engineering role first. Collectord runs on every node of a customer’s cluster, on Linux and Windows, in environments we do not control. It has to be correct under rotation, restarts, and backpressure, cheap on CPU and memory, and easy to reason about when something goes wrong at three in the morning in someone else’s data center. If that kind of problem appeals to you, read on.
What you will do
Design, build, and maintain Collectord in Go: log tailing, metrics collection from cgroups and /proc, Kubernetes API watchers, and the output pipelines to Splunk, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch.
Work close to the operating system on both Linux and Windows: container runtimes, filesystems, process and cgroup accounting, and the behaviors that differ between the two.
Build and extend our Splunk apps: dashboards, alerts, custom search commands, and React setup pages. Experience with a similar platform such as Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Grafana, or Datadog is equally welcome.
Work with data at rest: embedded SQLite in the agent, Athena over telemetry, and the Splunk indexes our dashboards search.
Write JavaScript and TypeScript where the product needs a user interface, and keep it small.
Write the documentation, release notes, and blog posts for what you ship. Record screencasts and build demos.
Help customers: reproduce their environments, answer support requests, and fix root causes. Take part in an occasional on-call rotation.
Represent the company at conferences a few times a year.
What we are looking for
You do not need to check every box. If you are strong in most of these and curious about the rest, we want to hear from you.
A track record of shipping and operating production software, with the scars to show for it.
Fluency in Go, or deep experience in another systems language such as Rust, C, or C++ and the willingness to work in Go every day.
A working understanding of Linux internals: processes, cgroups, namespaces, filesystems, signals, and networking. Familiarity with the Windows equivalents is a plus.
Hands-on experience running Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker in production, and an understanding of how logs and metrics actually flow through them.
Comfort with SQL and with the trade-offs of embedded and analytical databases.
Experience with Splunk or a comparable log and metrics platform: how data is indexed, searched, and visualized.
Enough JavaScript to build and maintain a modest web interface without a large framework.
Clear written communication. Much of our work reaches customers as documentation, and you will write a lot of it.
The habit of measuring before deciding, and of proving a change with a test before calling it done.
Nice to have
Contributions to open source projects in the Kubernetes, container, or observability ecosystems.
Experience with AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, or metered billing systems such as Stripe.
Experience giving talks, recording videos, or writing for a technical audience.
Familiarity with FIPS or other compliance requirements for shipped binaries.
How we work
Small team, no hand-offs. You own a change from the first design note to the support ticket it eventually generates.
Every change is tested. Unit tests run in containers, and integration suites bring up real Kubernetes clusters and real Splunk, Elasticsearch, and OpenSearch instances.
We write things down. Design notes, README files, and release notes are part of the work, not an afterthought.
Asynchronous by default, with a few synchronous conversations a week. We respect focused time.
Location and travel
This is a remote position open to residents of Florida. There is no office to report to, and where you work from day to day is your call. Our home base is DeLand, near Orlando, and we meet in person when it is useful.
You must be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor visas at this time. We participate in E-Verify and confirm employment eligibility for every new hire.
Expect to travel a few times a year to conferences such as Splunk .conf, KubeCon, and Red Hat Summit, with the company covering travel.
Compensation and benefits
Competitive salary, reviewed annually.
An annual bonus with a 10% target, based on company and individual performance.
Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
401(k) retirement plan.
Flexible time off with no fixed cap.
Remote work, with no office to report to.
Conference travel, with the company covering the trip.
Equal opportunity
Outcold Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of every background and make hiring decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Worksite address
deland, FL, 32723, US
Who can apply
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