Staff Software Engineer, Compute & Networking

Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
Who we areWe’re looking for a self-motivated, highly driven Staff Software Engineer to join our Compute and Network team. We, as a team, provide a compute and networking platform with reusable opinionated cloud components and tools that follow well-defined patterns and narrow interfaces, for engineering teams to use in their solutions, thereby providing leverage in a safe, reliable, and secure manner with guardrails and stable underlying infrastructure.
This team is responsible for building and operating the core compute and networking infrastructure of our microservices architecture here at Attentive, which consists of AWS VPCs, TransitGateways, multicluster Kubernetes (EKS), Istio as both a service mesh and ingress solution, and Cloudflare at the edge. We use Terraform and ArgoCD as our tools for Infrastructure as Code. 

Why Attentive needs you

• Demonstrate the ability to analyze, troubleshoot, coordinate, and resolve complex infrastructure issues
• Orchestrate Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple networks and AWS accounts
• Own our Infrastructure as Code Orchestration that allow application teams to consume AWS cloud services through automation and self-serve capabilities
• Develop automation workflows to improve team efficiency 
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Partner with other teams and business stakeholders to deliver business initiatives
• Be a technical leader and initiate discussions with a cross company impact.
• Be the owner of large scope projects, facilitate alignment across teams on outcomes, priorities and timelines

About you

• You have been working in the areas of Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps / Infrastructure for 8+ years, and have an understanding of best practices
• You have experience building infrastructure in a microservices architecture
• You have a background in software development and are passionate about bringing that experience to bear on the world of infrastructure
• You have owned and built Infrastructure as Code self-serve platforms using Terraform and can’t imagine a world without it
• You understand the importance of CI/CD in building high-performing teams and have worked with tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, and ArgoCD
• You are passionate about observability and worked with tools such as Splunk, Nagios, Sensu, Datadog, New Relic
• You are very familiar with containers and container orchestration and have direct experience with vanilla Docker as well as Kubernetes as both a user and as an administrator
• You are comfortable with the OSI networking model and have experience debugging or creating solutions that start at layer 7 down to layer 3

You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000 - $240,000 annually