Andalus is a start-up aiming to utilize the latest technologies to help clients solve their data needs. We are hackers by nature and like to think of innovative solutions to solving issues that have long been considered status-quo. We aim to empower our clients with state-of-art infrastructure components allowing them to be a data-enabled organization.

You will be working first-hand on developing the first major release of our Andalus platform targeted to empower important organizations in the MENA region.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain the core data computation infrastructure used by Andalus
• Debug issues across services and levels of the stack
• Think and suggest the right hardware specs and components that would run well with the developed software and adhere to clients’ requirements 
• Develop systems that proactively capture the health status of various software and hardware components.
• Build a great customer experience for people using your infrastructure

 Qualifications:

• Familiar with the latest computation and storage architecture and components
• Experience with managing distributed systems within computing clusters
• Experience in configuration and maintenance of applications such as web servers, load balancers, relational databases, storage systems and messaging systems.
• Knowledge of system design concepts
• Ability to debug complex problems across the whole stack
• Demonstrated understanding of container networking and security
• Comfort working with network protocols, proxies and load balancers
• Experience building highly available services 
• Experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration systems
• Technical writing skills
• Interest in or experience with systems languages, such as Go
• Strong communication skills and willingness to engage with your teammates in group problem-solving in a remote-work environment

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of data governance tooling and principles
• Working experience in organizations with large databases
• Dealt with data integrity and cleaning issues in the past
• Few years of experience as a tech lead