Senior Backend Engineer - Platform

The Job

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and optimizing cloud-based infrastructure and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines on AWS. You will work closely with other product teams to ensure efficient and reliable deployment, monitoring, and management of cloud applications.

The Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable and secure cloud-based services, promoting efficiency and self-service principles
• Work closely with development teams and fellow platform engineers to address critical issues
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment, empowering engineering teams
• Provide engineers visibility into their services via metrics, tracing, logs, and analytics
• Provide guidance to engineers on how to best utilize our observability systems to gain confidence that their services are performing as expected

The Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in an Infrastructure/DevOps role in an AWS cloud environment
• 4+ years of experience writing production code in either Golang or Python
• Understanding of fundamental principles of object-oriented software design, development, and architecture is required
• Understanding of DevOps practices and experience working with CI/CD and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.)
• Experience in operating observability and logging systems at scale (ex. Datadog, Sentry, etc.)
• Preferred candidates will be located in EST timezone