Software Engineer, Compute

Job Description:

  • Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams
  • Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems that meet launch goals, reach new markets and scale with product demand
  • Partner with fellow engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together
  • Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
  • You will work in a solution stack that extends all the way from complex back-end data through web services to highly usable web-based user interfaces
  • You will be able to directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies

Requirements:

  • BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
  • 2+ years of work experience as an infrastructure engineer working with cloud-based infrastructure, online data stores and infrastructure-as-code pipelines
  • Experience in cloud-based infrastructure, familiarity with modern networking concepts and experience managing infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Experience managing and scaling containerized software deployment systems such as Kubernetes
  • Experience in Software development in one or more of the general-purpose programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, Java, etc
  • Experience in working in high-energy small startup environments
  • Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
  • Ability to communicate effectively with users, technical teams, and management
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fully remote infrastructure engineering team environment

Benefits:

  • medical, dental, and vision
  • 3% 401(k) contribution
  • unlimited PTO
  • quarterly mental health days
  • family planning benefits
  • professional development stipend
  • wellness benefits
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