Senior Software Engineer (PHP), Web Monitoring

Please note, the employing company is Conductor GmbH.

Conductor is a leading Website Optimization & Intelligence platform. Today's top brands use Conductor to create and optimize digital experiences that get found organically in search engines and drive value for customers. The platform provides actionable SEO, content, and technical website intelligence paired with real-time website monitoring to help customers accelerate—and protect—digital growth.

Conductor is a mission-driven company with a commitment to innovation, customer success, and culture. For Conductor, success is improving the lives of all the people in our orbit—our customers, our customers' customers, our employee-owners, and our communities.

What are we looking for?

Conductor is seeking a seasoned, product-minded software engineer with low-latency distributed systems experience to power our real-time web monitoring SaaS platform checking hundreds of millions of URLs 24x7. The individual will play a pivotal role in the design, development and maintenance of our web monitoring platform. We are looking for a candidate who possesses a strong delivery- and problem-solving mindset as well as a can-do attitude to shape the future of our data infrastructure. The individual will be working with a stack of technologies, such as php 8, Rabbitmq, Elastic, MySQL, and Redis, among others.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager of our Web Monitoring pillar, the individual will -  

• Collaborate with application developers, infrastructure experts and other stakeholders to gather requirements, design and implement solutions that meet business needs and execute on the enterprise strategy.
• Develop, maintain, and test our advanced crawling systems ensuring low-latency, high availability and cost efficiency.
• Design, implement, and review technical RFCs and solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends, standards, best practices and emerging technologies to continuously improve our systems.
• Appreciate working across stacks in an organization without silos
• be motivated to understand the challenges in the SEO space, has a passion for solving problems and not just delivering features
• Influence strategic thinking across the team. Advocates for best practices, investigates new technologies and mentors other engineers. 

The successful candidate must thrive in ambiguity with a strong decision-making capability along with a sense of accountability, having a collaborative and supportive attitude. The candidate must have a passion to solve hard problems with technical expertise and a growth-mindset, using strong engineering rigor and data-driven operational skills to drive the desired outcomes across global teams. 

Who you are

• A hands-on php 8 engineer with 5+ years experience in building scalable and secure distributed systems powering 24x7 uninterrupted operations.
• Understanding of the HTTP protocol.
• Multi-year experience with Elastic and Rabbitmq or similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of modern distributed systems practices.
• Experienced with relational and non-relational databases.
• Proficiency with solution discovery and delivery using rapid prototyping, experimentation and iterative development.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills – can communicate clear technical solutions to complex problems to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with AWS is not required but would be considered a plus.

Your Benefits

• Friendly, open-minded and helpful international colleagues
• Access to the learning platform LinkedIn Learning
• Team and company events
• Urban Sports (M) or Fitness First membership or Swapfiets
• 28 days vacation at the start, 30 days after two years
• Company pension allowance
• Dog-friendly office

Interested? Then we look forward to receiving your application via the application link on our careers page. After receiving your application, you will immediately receive a confirmation e-mail from us. If you do not receive it, please check your spam folder and redirect the mail from our mail address to your inbox.

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