Senior C++ Backend Engineer

**Location**:Auckland or working remotely within NZ

**Job Type**:Full-time, permanent

**About MEGA**:
MEGA The Privacy Company provides global services from its Head Office in New Zealand. Built with **Privacy by Design**, MEGA provides a range of zero-knowledge encrypted cloud storage and communication solutions for individuals and businesses.

We launched in 2013, and have grown to a global team of over 160 people who are motivated by next-generation technology and design. Currently, MEGA supports more than 260M global registered users, with desktop and mobile apps across all major platforms.

Check out the **MEGA blog** to find out more about what our team is up to.

**About the role**:
As a Senior C++ Backend Engineer, you'll work alongside an international team architecting and developing a C++ service that provides access to MEGA through a state-of-the-art standard RESTful API: AWS S3. Part of a global team, you'll report to the C++ Backend Team Lead.

You'll make an impact by:

- extending our current service offerings by adding new features consistent with MEGA's guidelines and standards
- writing high-quality code and participating in code reviews
- actively engaging with team members, and mentoring as well as supporting them
- helping resolve technical challenges, problems, and bottlenecks to boost our server performance and security
- risk assessing technical problems, existing approaches, and patterns, and actively seeking solutions
- implementing unitary and integration tests
- contributing to engineering guidelines and our technical infrastructure to help enhance our products and improve reliability and efficiency
- collaborating with other engineers as well as product, design, and QA teams to ensure great user experiences
- adhering to our high security and privacy standards underpinned by our zero-knowledge encryption.

This role requires flexible working hours as you will collaborate with teams globally.

**About you**:
You enjoy transforming complex problems into simple, efficient and correct algorithms.

You are platform-agnostic and able to work with MEGA's build environments for networks and servers.

You’re proactive, self-motivated, disciplined, and willing to step out of your comfort zone to try something new.

You have:

- Over 6 years of experience in C++ software development in a commercial environment
- experience working with C++17 and using git for version control
- experience debugging, core dump analysis, deadlock identification, and memory corruption analysis
- experience in software profiling and in identifying bottlenecks and inefficiencies
- experience in Linux development
- knowledge of POSIX
- desirable experience or knowledge of AWS S3, IPC mechanisms, and multi-threading programming
- experience in network technology and server development
- an eye for detail and coding accuracy with a drive to present Clean Code
- excellent verbal and written communication skills
- good command of English.

**Qualifications**

Ideally, you hold a tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.

**What MEGA offers**:
Along with the freedom of remote and flexible working, continuous development, and opportunities for future growth, you’ll enjoy a competitive remuneration package.

This is a stable role within a secure industry, with the opportunity to work with passionate and experienced engineers, designers, product managers, and other stakeholders across the globe.

We have great and responsive leadership, a fun, hardworking team, and plenty of ongoing learning opportunities that mean you’ll continue to grow with us.