Sr Backend Engineer, Platform Engineering Network Data

Who we are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools we demystify complex network operations enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud device flow synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai Dropbox and Zoom rely on Kentik to run manage and optimize their networks.

Kentiks Platform Engineering group is responsible for storing enriching and querying traffic metadata and metrics from the worlds largest networks. Our platform actively monitors infrastructure triggers automated responses to outages and attacks and is critical to delivering complete network observability to our customers. Our platform ingests trillions of records and serves hundreds of thousands of queries for our users each day. The scale that this group services is tremendous.

Platform Engineering consists of 4 teams; (1) Ingest and Storage (2) Query (3) Network Data (4) SRE. As a senior engineer in platform engineering on the Network Data Team you will have the opportunity to co-own design and scale a high-performance data-intensive platform that processes the network monitoring data from the most influential companies on the internet.

We have built a team of world-class engineers network experts and technology thought leaders in a remote-friendly culture from day one. While prior experience in a remote environment is not required we highly value strong collaboration and communication skills and a high level of independence and autonomy.

Our Network Data Team is seeking an experienced backend engineer to scale our network data observability portions of our platform. You will work closely with customer service product and other engineering teams to develop new network data observability features.

• Work as an Individual Contributor to improve our network data observability services to meet customer demands.
• Collaborate with other engineer teams support and sales teams.
• Work on high-visibility challenging engineering problems

What youll bring

Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you dont match all of the qualifications your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!

• 5 years of experience in backend development using Go with a strong understanding of distributed systems concurrency and high-throughput data pipelines
• Experience building scalable REST/gRPC APIs and Kafka-based streaming pipelines is a plus
• Experience in network management or network data analytics
• Basic understanding of network observability topics like IPFIX/Netflow/sflow SNMP IP (v4/v6) allocation BGP DNS etc and the network domain and use cases
• A passion to grow personally and contribute to our team
• Strong collaboration skills

Our tech stack

• Our core data engine and platform are primarily written in Go
• We use 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

What we offer

Kentik is a fully remote company that operates globally. We seek professionals that will help us thrive as an organization and in turn to broaden and enhance your career. Were very thorough in the interview process to understand your skills and how they will relate to your successful growth here at Kentik. Our compensation philosophy encompasses a fair program for all in order to attract engage and retain talented individuals who will drive our business and wow our customers.

The compensation range for this position is: $177000 - $240000. This range reflects the low and high end of the U.S. compensation range Kentik reasonably and generally expects to pay the hired candidate in this role. The actual compensation offered may be lower or higher than the stated range depending on various factors including but not limited to:

• Experience with the skill sets required for success
• Demonstrated competencies and potential
• A geographic market-based approach

In addition to a great career opportunity Kentik offers stellar benefits for our employees which include:

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3000 for an individual or $4500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave
• Open PTO a quarterly Wellness Day and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement
• Stock options

Note: Benefits are as listed for all US full-time employees. For compensation international applicants will be treated equitably in relation to the laws applicable within the countries in which we operate.

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Come work with us

The true meaning of Kentik is visibility. Were committed to making sure everyone feels empowered to use their voice has a sense of belonging and is represented at Kentik.

We dont 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.

Kentik is committed to creating an inclusive interview process. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process please reach out to

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 youll take on were sure youll enjoy joining the Kentik team.

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