Moz is looking for a talented Senior Software Developer to join our Data Collection team who is ready to take on our diverse technical challenges. The Data Collection team maintains multiple data-oriented services to support products at Moz by providing them with high-quality data in a timely and cost-effective manner. Some of the data we collect and transform reaches the petabyte scale, and it forms the backbone of both the Moz Pro and STAT products that we offer, which are used by over 20,000 customers.
We are an office optional company. This position can be fully remote from anywhere within Canada. We're also open to having folks be based out of our Vancouver, BC office.
What’s Important to Us
Diversity & Inclusivity. Moz is committed to building diverse teams where people of all identities and backgrounds are welcome, included, and respected. It's our mission and promise to interview a diverse and representative slate of candidates before making an offer for our open roles.
High technical quality. We know our stack and tools and how to use them effectively. We constantly improve code and practices, work to reduce technical debt, and optimize systems to perform at scale.
Curiosity and motivation to learn. We’re always seeking opportunities for development and growth.
Product and customer focus. Our team is invested in the experience of the products we build beyond the code.
Collaboration. Team-focused communication, knowledge-sharing, and problem-solving make us more effective.
A commitment to shipping. It’s important to deliver, and we value getting new products and features to customers regularly.
What You’ll Do
Understand and embrace our core values: Transparency, Accountable, Generous, Fun, Empathetic and Exceptional.
Work with the team to plan, design, and deliver new functionality in our data collection services.
Through research and evaluation, improve and evolve our data collection systems to be more reliable, faster, and cost efficient.
Manage our environments in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other systems, with a focus on both Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Terraform and cluster management via a custom solution.
Work with the team to manage the operation of our data collection systems, ensuring that they are running smoothly at all times.
Participate in and collaborate to continuously improve our Scrum-based agile software development process. This will include regular meetings and discussion for software design, development, and code review.
Participate in the documentation of our software, development process, production environments, and procedures.
Contribute to the team’s roadmap and ensure progress towards architectural excellence for our services as well as steady reduction in technical debt.
Provide mentorship for less experienced developers on the team and foster an environment for the team to write the best code they can.
Experience We Want to See
Experience working with data pipelines, especially systems that routinely handle petabyte-scale datasets e.g. Amazon EMR or Spark
Extensive experience with C++, or a similar language, i.e. object oriented, statically typed, and compiled
Proficiency with dynamic languages, particularly Ruby and Python
Experience in a Linux cloud environment, particularly AWS, or experience with comparable environments and a demonstrated ability to adapt quickly to new environments.
Time in a role with operational responsibilities, e.g., monitoring, instrumentation, operations, SDET, managing servers/containers, deployment
A solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including strong algorithm skills and a deep appreciation for the complexity of large scale algorithms and Big O notation
Several years of experience working on products which apply complex algorithms to solve large scale data problems
