Senior or Staff Software Engineer, SRE/ Platform Team

About The Team:

What You'll Do:

• Optimize and Elevate Performance: Identify bottlenecks in our systems and unleash your creativity to introduce cutting-edge optimizations. You'll have the chance to improve the performance of our databases and evaluate innovative storage technologies that will elevate our infrastructure to new heights.
• Forge Infrastructure as Code: Take the lead in setting up robust infrastructure and configuration-as-code with Kubernetes and Terraform. You'll be at the forefront of shaping our foundational architecture, ensuring it’s both resilient and scalable.
• Drive Observability and Monitoring: Establish and maintain a state-of-the-art observability and monitoring stack. Your insights will enable us to stay ahead of potential issues, ensuring our services remain reliable and performant.
• Craft the Golden Path for CI/CD: Define and implement best practices for continuous integration and deployment. Your work will streamline the deployment process for our engineering teams, allowing them to roll out new features swiftly and safely.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with engineering teams to architect highly scalable, observable services. Your collaboration will be essential in creating a cohesive and efficient development environment.
• Be a Key Player in Incident Response: Join the on-call rotation and play a crucial role in maintaining our systems' health. Your expertise will be vital in troubleshooting and resolving issues, ensuring our services always meet the highest standards.

What you'll bring:

• At least 8 years of platform experience
• Experience operating reliable production systems at scale
• Knowledge of Linux systems internals
• Desire and ability to automate tasks
• Experience managing PostgreSQL for high-scale throughput systems, or similar experience with other relevant SQL datastores.
• Operational experience deploying and managing Kubernetes 
• Experience working with Cloud Providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

We value a variety of experiences, so these are not required. It would be an added bonus if you have experience in any of the following:

• Recently writing Go and/or Rust
• Working with ScyllaDB
• Redis, Kafka, etcd, Clickhouse, Kubernetes

Qualities we look for:

• Friendliness & Empathy
• Accountability & Collaboration
• Proactiveness & Urgency
• Growth Mindset & Love of Learning