Distributed Systems Specialist

We are a fast-growing tech start-up looking to add to our team of innovative and motivated people. HiveMQ is a messaging platform for reliable, secure and scalable data movement to and from connected IoT devices. Our vision is a connected world where people and companies can unleash their full potential. Our flagship product, the HiveMQ MQTT broker, is used by over 130 customers to develop new connected products, improve efficiencies, and drive down costs.

HiveMQ originated in Landshut, Germany, and has grown into a global, remote-first company. The last time we counted, we spoke 32 languages within HiveMQ. Join us as we work to contribute to the fast moving development of the IoT ecosystem and help companies enable mission critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoT products.

HiveMQ’s Vision for this role

The HiveMQ Dev team is dedicated to ensuring application resiliency and delivering the HiveMQ software platform in the highest quality. As a member of the HiveMQ development team, you will design, develop, and deliver solutions that enhance the scalability, availability, and efficiency of the HiveMQ software portfolio. This role works in unison with our support and SaaS teams identifying problems, patterns, anti-patterns, and opportunities to add resilience to our platform and core product. We work with agile principles and believe ruthless automation enables us to move fast while continuously meriting the trust that our customers store in us every day.

You will…

• Architect, build, and maintain the core software for massively-scalable global MQTT deployments
• Create self-healing software systems with state-of-the-art tools
• Scrape the boundaries of Brewer’s theorem
• Develop and implement concurrent, distributed, and performant algorithms
• Work intensively with profilers, benchmarking, and state analysis tools
• Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
• Solve edge cases and find the common truths behind them

You have…

• Outstanding interpersonal skills and can effectively coordinate and work in a team of developers
• A high sense of ownership and take pride in the work you accomplish
• Experience with writing distributed software and a strong theoretical background
• A passion for creating performant, scalable and reliable systems.
• The ability to dissect information and to anticipate user behaviour
• Ideally some experience with modern infrastructure-as-code tools, like k8s, terraform etc.
• Professional experience using Java, git and CI/CD tools
• The will to test the boundaries of system behaviour coupled with a strong will for exploration and drive

Why Us?

• We are a remote first company, offering you a very high level of freedom, versatility and autonomy
• We also offer you regular training courses to further develop your career
• Frequent team events and big annual company outings
• Our unique HiveMQ culture with great colleagues, outstanding team spirit and innovative technologies
• We offer you a versatile job with high personal responsibility and global challenging tasks
• You can work in a professional, international working environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths
• With us, you can grow personally in an exciting industry of the future, helping people and companies reach their full potential
• We live a co-operative and respectful corporate culture with fun at work and room for own ideas
• You have the chance to learn, develop and grow with the support of our whole international team
• A very high level of freedom, variability and autonomy
• A MacBook and iPhone of the latest generation

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https://www.hivemq.com/customers/

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Job advertisements of HiveMQ GmbH are always directed at female, male and various applicants, regardless of age, gender, religion, sexual identity, disability, race, ethnic origin, world view, etc. The selection of a candidate is exclusively based on qualifications. For organisational reasons, we cannot return application documents and cannot reimburse any expenses that you incur during the application process.