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Peloton

Senior Software Engineer, Leaderboard

New York, NY

WHO WE ARE:

The Leaderboard Engineering team is responsible for the core leaderboard experience when someone takes a Peloton class. The leaderboard shows a person’s real time ranking or presence in the class. It is one of the most heavily used features and serves some of the heaviest traffic within the Peloton system.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Develop and improve the in-class leaderboard user experience which include leaderboard for live classes, leaderboard for on-demand classes, leaderboard that shows people’s presence, and filtering on the leaderboard.
  • Improve leaderboard performance and reliability by leveraging production monitoring/profiling/tracing and load testing tools to discover bottlenecks and using techniques such as data modeling, query optimization, and caching to address the bottlenecks.
  • Evolve the architecture of various components and services in the leaderboard system. Propose, experiment, and implement solutions to scale the leaderboard to hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
  • Achieve on-time delivery without compromising quality.

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QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Passion for building scalable backend framework that supports a rapid growing user base
  • 6+ years of software development experience
  • Strong understanding of software engineering principles and fundamentals including data structures and algorithms.
  • Good understanding of concurrency and threading, operating system internals, and networking.
  • Experience scaling large scale web applications. Good understanding of request processing, caching, queuing, data storage, partitioning, and replication. Demonstrated experience leveraging those understandings to solve scaling challenges.
  • Proficient in at least one programming language, e.g., Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, C++, C.
  • Self directed and detail oriented with ability to come up with good design proposals or thorough analysis of production issues.
  • B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering.

Experience in the following areas:

  • Request Processing: Restful API endpoint design principles; Load balancing concepts; Communication and RPC protocols such as HTTP, TCP, gRPC.
  • Caching: Memcache, Redis
  • Relational Database: Postgres, or MySQL
  • NoSQL Database: Cassandra, Dynamodb, Mongodb, etc
  • Monitoring/Tracing/Profiling: Monitoring tools such as Datadog, Tracing tools such as Zipkin or Datadog APM
  • Deploy platforms and tooling: Jenkins, Kubernetes

Please note: This is a full-time position that will be remote initially (due to COVID-19) and based in our New York City HQ once the offices are safe to re-open.

 

ABOUT PELOTON:

Peloton uses technology + design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime. We have reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform. Seamlessly combining hardware, software, and streaming technology, we create digital fitness and wellness content and products that Members love. In 2020 Peloton committed to becoming an antiracist organization with the launch of the Peloton Pledge. Learn more, here.

“Together We Go Far” means that we are greater than the sum of our parts, stronger collectively when each one of us is at our best. In order to be the best version of Peloton, we are deeply committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture where all of our team members can be the best version of themselves. This work has no endpoint; it is the constant work of running an organization that strives to reach its full potential. As a first step in our commitment, we announced the Peloton Pledge to invest $100 million over the next four years to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world, and to promote health and wellbeing for all, from the inside out.

Peloton is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our applicants. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request any accommodations from application through to interview, please email:  applicantaccommodations@onepeloton.com

 

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Job ID: 1950194
Employment Type: Other

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