Posted in Information Technology 30+ days ago.
Type: Full-Time
The Federal Reserve System serves as the central bank of the United States. Its fundamental mission is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation’s monetary, financial, and payments systems.
This position is responsible for supporting the Federal Reserve System’s Research and Development around the future of money and payments.
Given the role of the US dollar and payment systems, the Federal Reserve System seeks to further understand the implications, costs, and benefits of the use of different technologies for the future of money and payments, notably as these relate to the roles of a central bank supporting the U.S. financial system. This position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a world-class team working on cutting edge technologies related to digital currency and other tokenized assets, application of smart contracts, wholesale settlement services, ledger design, and advanced cryptography. You will participate in a dynamic work environment that has the feel of a startup while also maintaining the benefits of a larger organization.
We empower our people to balance their life and work responsibilities. That’s why we offer a flexible hybrid work model that allows you to collaborate with office colleagues on some days, and work from home on others.
Essential Responsibilities:
Designing and implementing scalable distributed systems, primarily in Go
Working with TechOps to containerize and deploy distributed systems in the cloud using Kubernetes
Designing and implementing distributed systems protocols such as two-phase commit, replication through distributed consensus and concurrency control algorithms
Utilizing cryptographic algorithms and modern best practices to ensure security and fault tolerance of distributed systems
Designing and executing wide-scale system and micro-benchmarks to understand and debug performance
Writing system, integration and unit tests to provide quality assurance and prevent regressions.
Providing thoughtful and thorough code reviews
Writing clear and concise code and architecture documentation
Communicating solutions, challenges and results to both technical and non-technical teams
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent work experience.
Must be a U.S Citizen or a Green Card holder with intent to become a U.S Citizen
Experience deploying and testing containerized applications in the cloud using Kubernetes and AWS.
Senior Application Developer requires 4 or more years of application programming and development experience in crafting complex, scalable distributed data infrastructure. Lead Application Developer requires 7or more years’ experience in crafting complex, scalable distributed data infrastructure.
Proficiency in Java, C++, Golang, or Python with a solid understanding of multi-threading and memory management
Proven track record of developing and maintaining high-impact systems
Experience building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant, distributed systems
Experience implementing distributed systems algorithms at scale, particularly consensus algorithms like Raft and BFT, and two-phase commit.
Experience applying cryptographic algorithms such as hash functions, digital signatures and encryption in a distributed system context
Experience generating and analyzing runtime to identify software bottlenecks
Experience with distributed tracing, metrics and observability with a particular focus on Prometheus, Grafana and Open Telemetry
Ability to communicate technical challenges, test results and solutions to both technical and non-technical teams.
Experience working with large distributed systems involving hundreds of servers
Experience with database fundamentals, secure transport, API development and maintenance
Base Salary Range: Min: $113,600 - Mid: $147,600 - Max: $181,600 (Location: San Francisco)
Base Salary Range: Min: $138,900 - Mid: $180,400 - Max: $221,900 (Location: San Francisco)
Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
We offer a wonderful benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account, Backup Childcare Program, Pre-Tax Day Care Flexible Spending Account, Paid Family Care Leave, Vacation Days, Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Pet Insurance, Matching 401(k), and Retirement/Pension.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
The SF Fed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.
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