Senior Software Engineer Operations

Your new company 

Your new role 

This Sr. Software Engineer, Operations position will be impactful to the core platform that is used to run all of company's flagship products. If you are passionate about working on applications at scale, with immediate customer impact, our friendly and encouraging team is for you. The ideal candidate will have a background in systems engineering, with experience proactively identifying and fixing issues with distributed systems in the cloud. We enjoy spending most of our time in the layers underneath the application business logic, such as the OS, container orchestration, network/service mesh, and data stores. Our team also gets a kick out of improving observability and instrumentation for our services.

What you'll need to succeed 

• 5+ years demonstrated ability improving the reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems; SRE principles are also applicable.

• Proven understanding of cloud computing principles. AWS and Kubernetes preferred.

• The ability to read and understand Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Node.js, or other object-oriented programming languages and frameworks.

• We care about making our systems better, such as refactoring code to conform to company wide standards, and improving service uptime.

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal you’ll collaborate with our other product teams around the globe.

• Our team supports a variety of services; we primarily host either Ruby on Rails or Node.js applications.
• Datastores such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis, Memcached, and distributed streaming platforms like Kafka.
• AWS Network Load Balancers, NGINX reverse proxies, Istio service mesh.
• Cloud automation frameworks such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Our services are containerized and deployed to Kubernetes clusters, running in AWS. Previous experience with these technologies is preferred.

What you need to do now 

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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