Title : Senior Platform Engineer, Kubernetes
Location: Fully remote
LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a tremendous opportunity ahead of us, and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate, and disrupt an industry. We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.
About the role
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join LTK’s Platform team with Kubernetes expertise. The LTK Foundation and Platform Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining LTK’s cloud infrastructure and development platform. The team delivers various services and libraries, including automation and configuration management, monitoring and alerting, enterprise infrastructure administration, identity management, and event orchestration. Each member of the LTK Platform team partners directly with our software development teams to ensure maximum uptime and ability to scale and deliver exceptional features in a secure, timely, and consistent manner.
How you will make an impact
- Build developer-facing tooling and infrastructure that creates developer satisfaction and improves development velocity
- Define, document and build golden paths for teams to build services in a scalable, secure way
- Work with teams across the company to gather requirements, support and drive projects forward
- Provide guidance and unblock others on the team while helping others grow through code reviews
- Make good, informed decisions around technical debt and tradeoffs
- Regularly think about the scrum team's processes and share complex solutions for improvements with peers and management
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of software development experience.
- Experience building developer platforms/frameworks (Backstage.io, Cortex, Humanitec, score.dev, etc) for companies past the start-up stage.
- Experience migrating workloads onto Kubernetes/EKS.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
- Experience writing services in Go, Python, C++ or Java.
- Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
- Experience integrating 3rd party APIs (REST, OAuth).
- Expertise in working with various data storage technologies, including relational databases, NoSQL databases (like Hadoop HDFS, Apache Cassandra), and columnar databases.
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, system monitors, and log aggregation services.
- Familiarity with agile methods and familiarity with Scrum or Kanban frameworks.
- Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
- Proven experience influencing and mentoring other members of the Engineering team.