Staff Software Engineer - Core Infrastructure

 

Our Mission

6sense is on a mission to revolutionize how B2B organizations create revenue by predicting customers most likely to buy and recommending the best course of action to engage anonymous buying teams. 6sense Revenue AI is the only sales and marketing platform to unlock the ability to create, manage and convert high-quality pipeline to revenue.

Role Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to elevate our infrastructure. You will be a key driver in shaping the future of our data and compute platforms, building resilient and maintainable systems that serve our entire engineering organization. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you will tackle complex challenges, provide technical leadership, and mentor your peers.

You'll build the critical tools and primitives that empower all 6sense developers. Your work will directly impact our engineering, product, and analytics functions by creating a more scalable, reliable, and efficient compute and data platform. You'll manage and optimize core systems such as our databases, caches, containerized workloads, and infrastructure orchestration.

Join us in shaping the future of infrastructure at 6sense!

Key Responsibilities

· Platform Innovation. Architect and implement a scalable and performant data platform, ensuring seamless integration with existing technologies and a focus on long-term sustainability.

· Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration. Create a self-service library of secure and reusable infrastructure components that reduce cognitive load for developers and accelerate product delivery.

· Performance & Scalability. Proactively identify and solve complex scalability and performance bottlenecks, delivering solutions that meet our rapidly growing demands.

· Technical Leadership. Partner with cross-functional teams to define architectural standards and best practices, providing technical guidance and mentoring to junior and mid-level engineers.

· Security Mindset. Ensure that our infrastructure as code has security baked into the components available in our library.

· Tooling & APIs. Design and develop secure, well-documented automations, APIs, and tooling to streamline how stakeholders interact with our platform.

Required Qualifications and must-have skills

· BS/MS in Computer Science, or related fields with a minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience.

· Foundational Knowledge. Solid grasp of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and software design principles, with proven experience in distributed systems.

· Orchestration. Experience developing complex and automated pipelines for infrastructure using techniques such as IaaC, GitOps.

· Coding Ability. Strong coding skills in Python and SQL.

· Kubernetes Expertise. Expert knowledge of Kubernetes internals such as the Kube-Apiserver, Kube-proxy, networking, and workload scheduling. Managing Kubernetes clusters at scale. Experience with managed solutions such as AKS, EKS, or GKE is a plus.

· Networking. Expert with Cloud network

· Linux Expertise. Expert with Linux systems administration, package management, and operations.

Preferred Qualifications

· Cloud Service Providers. Experience managing cloud service provider accounts at scale. Experience with multi-cloud deployments (AWS, Azure, & GCP) is a plus.

· Data Platform Services. Experience operating and managing data platform technologies like MySQL, Trino, Hive, Kafka, ElasticSearch, and Redis. Working experience of SingleStore (memsql) DB is a h