The Platform Engineer is a professional with at least 3 years of experience in systems and infrastructure engineering, specializing in startups within the tech industry. This individual is talented in problem-solving, seeks coding excellence, ensures comprehensive testing, and adopts scalable software solutions.
Who We Are
We are an early-stage startup focused on building automation of Asset Management (ITAM) for B2B clients within the physical, digital, and organizational automation space.
We are a remote-first, geographically-distributed team open to candidates from around the world.
We are committed to transparency, openness, and supporting each other to build great things.
We approach our products with genuine curiosity and recognize that innovative tech solutions pair best with high-performance, engaged teams.
We offer great benefits, including a 100% remote work environment, flexible schedules, and ongoing growth opportunities.
Requirements
Proven expertise in startup environments within the tech sector.
Familiarity with cloud patterns, covering security, scalability, availability, reliability, maintainability, and quality.
Good analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Communication skills and an ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
Must be located in time zones between UTC-8 and UTC+3
Qualifications
At least 3 years demonstrating mastery of cloud and infrastructure management, mainly in production applications over AWS.
Expertise in provisioning, configuring, deploying, maintaining, and repairing production artifacts and resources, such as databases, processing queues, instances, networks, and RBAC users over AWS.
Proficiency in working with platform as code (PaC), such as Terraform or Pulumi.
Expertise in working with orchestration services like Kubernetes, AWS EKS/ECS, or AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
Knowledge of provisioning frameworks like Chef or Ansible.
Good understanding of monitoring tools and platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog.
Hands-on experience with shell script for creating automated routines and remote environment management and troubleshooting.
Understanding of Git and branching models for collaborating with team members.
Nice-To-Haves
Command of CI/CD best practices to streamline development pipelines.
Familiarity with Identity Providers, Active Directory, and LDAP.
Enhanced skills with other programming languages like C++, Rust, or Go are highly valued.
A comprehensive grasp of network connectivity, traffic encryption, authentication protocols, proxy, firewall, VPN, and SSH tunnels.
Responsibilities
Consistently write functions that are easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases and errors. Use docstrings effectively.
Understand the testing pyramid and write unit tests in accordance with it, as well as higher-level tests with help from more senior engineers. Always test expected edge cases and errors as well as the happy path.
Understand a portion of the team's domain and gain sufficient context to work productively. Design functions that are aligned with the overall service architecture. Use a systematic approach to debug issues located within a single service.
Before beginning work, ensure that tasks are appropriately sized for continuous integration and incremental delivery with help from teammates and the manager.
Usually communicate effectively, clearly, concisely, and in an audience-oriented way in written and verbal form, both technical and non-technical subjects, to your teammates. Actively listen to others and ensure they are understood. Pay attention to nonverbal communication.
Understand your work domain, share knowledge frequently with your teammates, and contribute to your team's documentation. Watches out for opportunities to share knowledge.
When requested, help your teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Give or share credit where due.
Seek out mentorship to grow your own experience. Sometimes mentor your teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, and empathetic manner.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Work from anywhere - we are 100% remote
Unlimited PTO (vacation, time to recharge, US or local holidays)
Flexible working hours with 4 hours overlapping in US Eastern time
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies while contributing to impactful projects
Collaborative, innovative, and supportive work culture
Chance to be mentored by a team of talented engineers
Professional growth and development opportunities
Recruitment Process
We are committed to providing a simplified, transparent, and streamlined hiring experience. You may expect the following stages:
Technical assessment and code challenge
Meeting with your future Engineering Manager
Technical interview with the technical leadership
Cultural fit interview with the CTO
Get a job offer, sign contracts, and define your start date.
Welcome aboard!
We are a fully remote, distributed team. However, we are not currently able to provide visa sponsorship for employment.
Upon submitting your application, you consent to receive future communications. The communication will depend on the availability of positions that align with your qualifications. Only eligible candidates will receive correspondence.
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