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Your Role and Responsibilities

Instana is looking for a Software Engineer to work from one of our office locations in Kochi.

As a member of the Java tracer team with Instana you should have a natural curiosity for cloud-native technology, including but not limited to the fields of stream-processing, data-storage, databases, and interesting research. Your ability to leverage new technology to provide our customers with an excellent experience is key, while you are working on a diverse team of highly qualified and motivated individuals. At Instana, we process and analyze millions of spans, traces, metrics and events per second in order to provide actionable APM intelligence to our rapidly expanding customer base. Such scale creates a number of challenges to our platform.

Here is an overview of what you will be expected to accomplish in this role:

• Maintain and evolve the Java tracer technologies

• Find innovative solutions as a result of collaboration across multiple teams

• Measure and optimize performance across all components

• Automate build and deployment of our cloud-solutions

• Evaluate technology for use in the Instana Java tracer

• Provide data to further drive decisions and innovation

• Participate in communities-of-practice for specific aspects of our platform

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5+ years of strong expertise with JVM based languages with deep understanding of performance characteristics and profiling

• Strong foundation on Core Java

• Good knowledge about reactive systems based on Java, specifically RX, Reactor, Reactive-Streams

• Understanding of and experience with message-processing based on Apache Kafka

• Good code-writing discipline

• Experience with extensive unit-testing

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience with developing, maintaining and operating distributed systems at cloud-scale

• Experience in Docker and Kubernetes

• Knowledge about database systems like ElasticSearch, Cassandra and Clickhouse

• General experience of and with APM tools and Distributed Tracing

• Experience working in agile software environments (preferably with Scrum or Kanban)

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