Staff Cloud Engineer

Classy, an affiliate of GoFundMe, is a Public Benefit Corporation and giving platform that enables nonprofits to connect supporters with the causes they care about. Classy's platform provides powerful and intuitive fundraising tools to convert and retain donors. Since 2011, Classy has helped nonprofits mobilize and empower the world for good by helping them raise over $7 billion. Classy also hosts the Collaborative conference and the Classy Awards to spotlight the innovative work nonprofits are implementing around the globe. For more information, visit www.classy.org.

Classy's Product Technology team is hiring a Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer that will join our Cloud Infrastructure team.  In this role, you will lead a team of engineers to support the buildout of a next-generation Cloud Infrastructure which achieves 99.999% availability.  The ideal candidate is comfortable leading technical projects and people as well as creating the best in class infrastructure and reliability framework. We're looking for someone with a history of building highly available cloud infrastructures for Saas platforms.  As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to keep the Classy online fundraising platform for nonprofits running smoothly without interruption.

What you’ll do:

• Join a team of skilled engineers dedicated to proactively building highly-performant infrastructures for online services
• Have a critical role in building and maintaining a robust, fault-tolerant, global payments platform processing billions of dollars per year.
• Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and continuous learning
• Drive architectural decisions, advocating for best practices and improvements to our development processes.
• Participate in an engineering culture of “always be learning” where the sharing and learning from failures is celebrated and the giving and receiving of constructive candid feedback is highly encouraged.
• Fostering DevOps mentality to push the department’s velocity to meet goals 

What you bring (Required):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years hands-on experience building highly scalable projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation.
• High-level proficiency with AWS.
• Expertise in software architecture, design patterns, and microservices architecture.
• Good understanding of distributed data models with experience debugging distributed systems with high data loads.
• High-level of proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) 
• Expertise with Bash and one or more of PHP, NodeJS, Python3, Go
• A deep sense of quality, and sharp engineering skills with strong computer science fundamentals.
• An ability to thrive in fast-paced, sometimes ambiguous start-up environments
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across different teams and cultures.

What would be awesome to have (Preferred):

• Experience building PCI compliant systems
• Experience in payment processing systems
• Experience developing high-volume transaction systems
• Passion for building fault tolerant and secure platforms
• Understanding of the requirements for performance and reliability testing for infrastructures
• Strong APM experience using tools such as NewRelic, DataDog, Splunk, etc.
• Experience with async processing. We use SQS/SNS and Eventbridge.

Why you’ll love it here...

• Market competitive pay
• Rich healthcare benefits including employer paid premiums for medical/dental/vision (100% for employee only plans and 85% for employee + dependent plans) and employer HSA contributions. 
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Hybrid workplace with fully remote flexibility for many roles
• Monetary support for new hire setup, hybrid work & wellbeing, family planning, and commuting expenses
• A variety of  mental and wellness programs to support employees   
• Generous paid parental leave and family planning stipend
• Supportive time off policies including vacation, sick/mental health days, volunteer days, company holidays, and a floating holiday
• Learning & development and recognition programs
• Gives Back Program where employees can nominate a fundraiser every week for a donation from the company
• Inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging are vital to our priorities and we continue to evolve our strategy to ensure DEI is embedded in all processes and programs at GoFundMe. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclus