Lead Software Engineer / DevOps

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Lead Software Engineer / DevOps

San Francisco, CA or Bellevue, WA - office hybrid

Our Technology, Marketing & Products Engineering team is tasked for innovating and maintaining a substantial distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day. Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship. Our platform is deeply customizable to meet the differing demands of our vast user base, creating an exciting environment filled with sophisticated challenges for our hundreds of agile engineering teams every day!

We are defining the next generation of trusted enterprise computing in the cloud. We're a fast-paced, agile and innovative team. We work across all areas of our technology stack. We enable critical services for the business, qualify sophisticated compute changes, trail-blaze new engineering solutions for the cloud!

Your Impact:

• You'll brainstorm with Product Owners and Engineers on your team and organization to conceptualize and build new features for our large (and growing!) user base.
• You’ll produce high-quality results by contributing heavily to team projects that have a significant impact on the business.
• You’ll actively own team features or systems and define their long-term health, while also improving the health of surrounding systems.
• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• You’ll demonstrate a sense of autonomy for ownership of your areas and proactively take accountability for progress forward.
• You’ll create and maintain detailed documentation.
• You’ll participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address sophisticated problems in real time and keep services operational and highly available
• You’ll design, develop, deploy, and enhance automation to optimally run the observability platform infrastructure
• You’ll code review, mentor junior engineers, and provide technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level)

Requirements:

• A relevant technical degree is required
• 5+ years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE)
• 3+ years of demonstrated ability working within and building on public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and demonstrated ability deploying with a CI/CD orchestration services (Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• 5+ years of Linux system engineering experience and working experience in programming languages (Python, Golang, Ruby) and professional development experience and capable of developing in a Cloud-based environment and implementing DevOps standard methodologies.
• Experience with networking concepts and components as implemented in IaaS (i.e. VPC, TGW, route tables, security groups, etc.)
• A continuous learner and a critical thinker.
• Excellent verbal communication and technical documentation skills

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Zabbix etc.
• Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools such as Splunk, Loki, Tableau
• Experience in open-source technologies like HBase, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Presto, Hive, Airflow.
• Strong SQL skills and experience and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgres/Oracle/Redshift/Mongo).
• Experience providing Production Operations support in a 7x24x365 environment

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