Sr. Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

DroneUp was born out of a vision to make autonomous flight great for communities, great for business, and great for the world. Yet more than visionaries; we have the tools, instruments, focus, and expertise to execute while utilizing a “People Matter Most” mentality.

Our founder envisioned a massive, untapped opportunity to leverage autonomous flight that would revolutionize how the world may "pitch" and "roll" in the future. To start, we have harnessed the power of airspace technology, analytics platforms, and drone services to transform business operations. Our long-term mission is to be “Safe and Be Exceptional” while building and deploying the world's most accessible drone ecosystem.

Ranked in the top 25 of LinkedIn Top Startups 2022, DroneUp is Headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia and provides drone delivery service in 34 locations across six states in partnership with the #1 retailer in the world, Walmart, Inc.

In 2022 DroneUp was on the list of "Next Big Things in Tech" but we are more than just invested in the drone ecosystem; we are equally invested in our people and landed successfully as a certified "Great Place to Work" in 2023. Knowing that our mission critical success comes directly from the people we bring onboard, we strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow, and go beyond the normal Field of View! Come fly with us as our team goes through our checklists that will “Inspire Fast Action” and take an entire industry to new heights. “Be a Person Others Want to Follow!”

Position Summary

DroneUp is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and continuously improving and supporting both internal and client-facing IT infrastructure as well as our internal developer platform. The ideal candidate is a strong developer as well as an engineer strong in operations. Senior engineers are also expected to mentor, grow, and pair with existing platform engineers. The Platform Engineering organization at DroneUp is responsible for the developer experience including all cloud, security, CI/CD, and all related tooling and is working to build our internal developer platform for software delivery and orchestration at scale. Some of our principles in Platform Engineering are: self-service, security by default, a bias towards automation, and emotional intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Architect and support tools or in-house programs
• Support a multi-cloud environment, including AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Provide feedback to others and participate in peer reviews / pair programming
• Actively practice Test Driven Development through designing, development, and debugging unit and integration tests for new and existing infrastructure and code
• Continuous curiosity of existing implementations and new technologies and sharing with the team
• Identify and fix root cause defects and production bugs, communicate impact of bugs and work with stakeholders to schedule fixes
• Understand and research changes to external integrations and update code
• Practice continuous improvement across all job areas and personally / professionally
• Clearly communicate with the team and other stakeholders and provide technical direction while doing so
• Stay current with platform changes and third-party libraries
• Proactively investigate better solutions for current solutions
• An understanding of Open Telemetry and true observability and the difference between it and monitoring and logging
• Grow the engineering culture towards a high-performing team
• Practice the arts of self-service, least privilege, and security by default in all solutions
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 5+ years experience as a software engineer
• Proficiency in kubernetes; Optional: CKA, CKAD
• Extensive experience in Unix / Linux
• Polyglot and proficiency in multiple languages (ideally: Golang, Python, HCL and more)
• Prior experience as a software engineer/developer
• Knowledge of multi-cloud environment, including AWS, Azure and GCP (familiar with at least two of these environments)
• Exper