Staff Full Stack Engineer

About the Team: 

At Netlify, our engineers are at the core of our mission to build a better web. We aim to create a better experience for developers globally by reducing friction and giving them autonomy, agency, and power so that they can innovate at the speed of light. We anchor our engineering teams around self-sufficient teams to drive developer productivity and enable us to scale, conquer, and divide.  Netlify has been remote-first since our inception and we’re globally distributed, spanning across North America and Europe. We’re biased towards asynchronous planning and communication and take documentation seriously, meaning fewer meetings and more execution!

As a Staff Engineer at Netlify, you'll work with a smart set of team members who are very motivated to keep learning and continuing to grow each other in a supportive way. We have a blameless culture where we solve problems as a team and everyone works together towards a common goal.  Our mission is to build a better web, and you’ll be joining the team that is responsible for globally delivering that web via a fault-tolerant distributed system.

We focus on serving requests through a reliable edge infrastructure. Our customers expect their websites to be delivered everywhere with high availability and low latency. We solve problems across product development, infrastructure, and operations, serving everyone from large businesses such as Peloton and Verizon to small startups and nonprofits. Our challenges span the entire stack: from the way we cache the responses to safely executing custom user code within milliseconds, as close to the user as we can. We operate at scale with daily traffic levels rising to hundreds of thousands of requests per second. We’re responsible for the infrastructure for our services as well as the services themselves.

What You’ll Do: 

• Leverage expert-level knowledge of Javascript, React, and their ecosystems
• Modify our Ruby monolith as needed
• Use your appreciation for semantic HTML & accessibility, and keep these at the forefront of your mind while developing new UIs
• Collaborate with designers to craft accessible, reusable components and consistent design patterns
• Advocate for improvements to the product quality, security, and performance.
• Represent the team and be a significant influence in the overall vision and long term goals for the team and product.
• Be a partner to our engineering managers, especially by advocating and identifying technical debt or impediments that slow down the team's ability to deliver code to production.
• Be able to ship large features and improvements with minimal guidance or support from other team members.
• Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in an area that interests you
• Participate in an on-call rotation as needed

What You'll Bring:

• A history of thriving in environments where experimentation and failure are celebrated
• An expert level of knowledge with Javascript, React, and their ecosystems, as well as a deep passion for a Javascript-centered workflow
• A deep appreciation for semantic HTML and accessibility
• A breadth of experience in implementing design systems or component libraries
• Solicit feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your team through thoughtful feedback
• A passion for digging into new tools, frameworks, and platforms
• A high level of comfort with a Git-centric workflow, including continuous deployment and solid tooling
• Lead by example, seek to understand through active listening and questioning, actively address problems you identify and assume responsibility for your work

Applying

Not sure you meet 100% of our qualifications? Please apply anyway!

When applying please include: 

A resume or short listing of your job history & skills (link to a LinkedIn profile would be fine). We appreciate a cover letter explaining why you would enjoy working in this role at Netlify to get to know you a bit better, though this is not required and will not impact your application. Our mission is to “build a better web” and that cannot be done without a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds and thoughts. 

Of everything we've ever built at Netlify, we are most proud of our team. Netlify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are devoted to building a team of people with diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. Driving equality empowers our team, enables us to innovate, and helps us maintain a more inclusive environment. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, military/veteran statu