Job Description

Our Mission:

Our mission is to multiply what matters: growth, retention, and efficiency. We envision a future where companies, teams and people reach their full potential.

Our People:

People are the heart and soul of 6sense. We serve with passion and purpose. We live by our Being 6sense values of Win as One Team, Stay Curious, Do The Right Thing, Own the Outcome, and Create Belonging. Every 6sensor plays a part in deﬁning the future of our industry-leading technology. 6sense is a place where difference-makers roll up their sleeves, take risks, act with integrity, and measure success by the value we create for our customers. We want 6sense to be the best chapter of your career.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will join a dynamic engineering team responsible for building scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant backend systems. This is a high-impact role where you will contribute to critical projects that drive platform scalability, optimize performance, and improve system reliability for a global customer base. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and work with modern technologies to solve complex engineering challenges. Your contributions will play a key role in ensuring seamless and reliable customer experiences.

Key Responsibilities :

Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and reliable backend systems.
Build distributed services capable of handling large-scale datasets and high-throughput workloads.
Optimize system performance, reliability, and availability across the platform.
Collaborate with product managers, data teams, and other engineering teams to deliver high-impact solutions.
Contribute to architectural decisions and help improve engineering best practices.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in production systems.

Required Qualifications :

5+ years of industry experience in software engineering, preferably in technology-focused organizations or start-up environments.
Strong hands-on experience building large-scale distributed systems.
Experience working with large datasets (tens of millions of documents or more).
Experience with in-memory caching systems such as Redis.
Experience with distributed NoSQL databases such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, HBase, or MongoDB.
Proficiency in at least one backend programming language, Python preferred.
Ability to design and work with complex business workflows and high-volume data processing systems.
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Our Benefits:

Full-time employees can take advantage of health coverage, paid parental leave, generous paid time-off and holidays, quarterly self-care days off, and stock options. We’ll make sure you have the equipment and support you need to work and connect with your teams, at home or in one of our oﬃces.

We have a growth mindset culture that is represented in all that we do, from onboarding through to numerous learning and development initiatives including access to our LinkedIn Learning platform. Employee well-being is also top of mind for us. We host quarterly wellness education sessions to encourage self care and personal growth. From wellness days to ERG-hosted events, we celebrate and energize all 6sense employees and their backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

6sense is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to jobs@6sense.com .

We are aware of recruiting impersonation attempts that are not affiliated with 6sense in any way. All email communications from 6sense will originate from the @6sense.com domain. We will not initially contact you via text message and will never request payments. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official 6sense employee, reach out to jobs@6sense.com

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