Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend - Cadence

Sr Staff Software Engineer - Backend - Cadence Department: Engineering Team: Backend Location: Seattle, United States Type: Full-Time **About the Role** Cadence is a modern open source microservice orchestration platform developed at Uber and adopted by many leading companies. It serves as the backbone for more than 1,000 Cadence domains at Uber, powering billions of executions each month. With a rapidly growing open source community, Cadence offers the opportunity to make an impact not just at the company level but across the industry. We are seeking a software engineer with experience building highly scalable, high throughput, low latency, multi tenant backend systems. Beyond technical expertise, we are looking for someone passionate about open source, someone who listens to the community, helps organize meetups, and addresses community needs. In this role, you will lead a large backend team, shape standards for both the Cadence team and its community, and contribute to the growth of cutting edge distributed technology. To get more information about Cadence you check our website ([https://cadenceworkflow.io/](https://cadenceworkflow.io/)), LinkedIn page ([https://www.linkedin.com/company/cadenceworkflow](https://www.linkedin.com/company/cadenceworkflow)) or YouTube channel ([https://www.youtube.com/@cadenceworkflow2989/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@cadenceworkflow2989/videos)). **\-\-\-\- What the Candidate Will Do ----** 1. Contribute to an open source project used by many major companies 2. Write code to build new features to support more use cases 3. Develop and review design documents 4. Improve onboarding, observability and operability experiences for Cadence 5. Define standards for the processes used internally and externally **\-\-\-\- Basic Qualifications ----** 1. Experience in team and technology leadership 2. Solid background in multiple programming languages, e.g. Go, Java or C++ 3. Strong infrastructure experience. Experience in distributed systems and a good understanding of its fundamentals. 4. Great interpersonal skills, deep technical ability, and a portfolio of succes