Solace Corporation Hiring for Software Designer at Ottawa, ON Full Time

Harnessing the Power of Data, Together.
The world’s leading enterprises are using Solace’s event streaming and management platform to transform their organizations by harnessing the power of events.
The more quickly an enterprise can get information about events to where it needs to be, the more effectively a business can react to opportunities and improve the customer experience. That’s where an event broker (modern messaging-oriented-middleware) comes in.

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Help Us, Help Them, Help You.*
By joining our first-class team, you will be helping leading enterprises, including common household brands we all know and love, reach their full potential in this real-time, digital world.

The next time you drive a luxury vehicle, do some online banking, fly in a plane, or order some furniture online, you could be getting a better experience as a direct result of our technology, and your hard work. Wouldn’t that be great!?

Overview
We at Solace believe that we build the world’s best messaging middleware product in the world. Our mixture of hardware, software, and messaging-as-a-service offerings allow us to perform and excel in all environments where applications need to communicate.
At the heart of our PubSub+ messaging broker lies the datapath. This area of hardware and software is responsible for moving messages at a high rate, with low latency and utmost reliability. The datapath spans custom-built hardware, containing FPGAs and a Cavium network processor, and software running on Intel server processors. Software in this area is highly multi-threaded and performance-oriented.
We are looking for energetic developers that relish the challenge of building complicated features with C++ in this multi-threaded environment. Candidates should enjoy going deep to learn about hardware interfaces, processors, their cache hierarchy, and details of the Linux kernel.

The Ideal Candidate

• 2+ years experience writing multi-threaded performance-oriented code in C++
• Knowledge of network protocols (TCP/IP, Ethernet)
• Keen interest in software interactions with hardware
• Experience in designing high-efficiency data storage systems
• Experienced in using messaging brokers such as Solace, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Able to work independently with high-level guidance to achieve goals
• A team player who enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Detail-oriented to ensure designs meet requirements are easy to use for internal customers and built to high quality

Required Skills:

• 2+ years experience in C++
• Experience with software development on Linux
• Experience with multi-threaded programming
• Experience with debugging complex applications with core file and code
• Experience with high-performance applications in Linux

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with Linux kernel
• Experience with real-time applications
• Experience with at least one scripting language like Python/Ruby/Perl

Why You’ll Want to Join Us at Solace

• We have an awesome team! You’ll get to work with some of the smartest individuals in the business
• We believe in work-life balance and believe it’s important to love what you do
• We have adopted a hybrid work model to create an inclusive working environment for everyone
• Our training programs are top-notch (LinkedIn Learning, Mentorship program, Solace Academy)
• We like to brag about our stellar customer lineup!
• We are social – we like to keep things simple and fun!
• We are one of the top-ranked employers on Glassdoor
• We have a sense of humour and make cool videos like this

We believe that diversity in all of its forms drives innovation and growth, both in business and in life. This is why we strive to create an enriching and safe workplace where you can be who you are. It is only because of you that we can be us.

If you want to do the best work of your career and feel supported every step of the way, we encourage you to join us.

We thank all candidates for their interest, however, only those selected to continue in the selection process will be contacted. Solace welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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As of November 1, 2021, all Solace staff must be fully vaccinated absent a valid exemption under applicable human rights law.

Job Type: Full-time