java developer for Valkey platform engineering

Grid Dynamics provides technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. The company helps enterprise organizations solve complex technology challenges and achieve business transformation outcomes.

• Design and develop automation and platform tooling to operate and scale Valkey reliably and efficiently;
• Build and enhance observability capabilities, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing;
• Develop tooling and automation for cluster lifecycle management, diagnostics, and other operational workflows to reduce manual intervention and operational complexity;
• Investigate complex distributed-system and performance issues and implement solutions that improve platform reliability, scalability, and performance;
• Build and improve CI/CD automation and engineering tooling to enable safe and efficient development and deployment of platform services;
• Collaborate with Platform, Core, and SRE engineers on architecture, APIs, automation, and tooling;
• Contribute to the technical documentation needed to develop and maintain the platform.

• Strong proficiency in Java and experience developing production backend systems;
• Experience with at least one scalable distributed data store such as Cassandra, Redis, Valkey, or MongoDB;
• Experience designing and building RESTful services and resilient, high-performance backend components;
• Experience with Kubernetes and developing or deploying applications in containerized environments;
• Experience building CI/CD automation using technologies such as Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, and GitHub;
• Experience developing or integrating observability capabilities, including metrics, dashboards, alerting, logging, or tracing for distributed systems;
• Strong understanding of distributed-system principles, including high availability, scalability, fault tolerance, and performance;
• Ability to investigate complex system behavior and translate operational or scalability challenges into engineering solutions;
• Comfortable working independently on ambiguous engineering problems and collaborating across multiple teams;
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience;
• Nice to have: Experience developing platforms or tooling for Redis, Valkey, or other large-scale distributed database systems; experience building automation for database provisioning, configuration, upgrades, scaling, failover, or other cluster lifecycle operations; experience developing internal platforms, control planes, or infrastructure automation used by other engineering teams; experience with scalable messaging systems such as Kafka or RocketMQ.

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects;
• Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team;
• Flexible schedule;
• Benefits package including medical insurance, vision, and dental coverage;
• Corporate social events;
• Professional development opportunities;
• Well-equipped office;
• All onboarding must occur in person and travel may be required to attend.