Description
We are looking for a highly talented, innovative, and creative Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the core infrastructure components of our platform, including networking, storage, and compute resources. Collaboration with SRE and software development teams is essential to ensure our platform effectively supports application workloads. Additionally, you will monitor and troubleshoot the platform to maintain optimal performance and availability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop core platform infrastructure, including services for distributed computing, storage, networking, security, telemetry, and more.
- Monitor and troubleshoot issues across the entire platform and services.
- Optimize the performance, scalability, reliability, and security of the platform infrastructure.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to provide 24⁄7 platform support.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to understand platform requirements and provide technical guidance.
- Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies and industry best practices.
- Occasional domestic travel required for in-person team, department, and company meetings.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 10 years of experience with cloud infrastructure, containerized workloads, build automation, and release management in a SaaS production environment.
- Experience owning and scaling a container orchestration platform, especially Kubernetes (EKS).
- Expert-level experience with AWS and hybrid cloud systems/designs.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Expert-level experience with Linux administration and internals.
- Proficiency with configuration management tools, such as Ansible and Salt.
- Production experience in operating an always-up, always-available mission-critical service.
- Strong knowledge of ephemeral infrastructure, horizontal scaling, self-healing architectures, service discovery, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
- Expert understanding and ability to troubleshoot systems using TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, SSL/TLS, and DNS.
- Proficient with multiple scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Go.
- Knowledge of best-practice security, performance, and networking techniques for high-traffic customer-facing systems.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as New Relic and CloudWatch.
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including Microsoft SQL, Postgres, DynamoDB, and MongoDB.
- Excellent troubleshooting and testing skills.
- A passion for learning new technologies.
- Experience with Agile methodology and a passion for software development best practices.
- Strong sense of collaboration, teamwork, and accountability.
- A passion for an excellent Developer Experience (DX).
- Experience working for a SaaS company is highly desired.
Why Join Us
Our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there’s no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive compensation package.
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program.
- Health and wellness insurance benefits.
- 401k with employer match.
- Flexible work environment.
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break).
- Paid parental leave.
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth.
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee.
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field.
We are committed to creating a diverse workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer of Minorities, all Genders, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.
Employment Type: Full-Time