Staff Software Engineer, Cloud

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Design, build and maintain our cloud services across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including control plane and data plane aspects
• - Guide and evolve our system architecture in collaboration with other engineering leaders
• - Identify and champion new features, process changes, and other strategic projects that improve our engineering culture and operational excellence
• - Participate in an on-call escalation chain, help drive down problems that lead to on-call escalations, and help drive improving on-call quality of life
• - Work with all the engineering teams on building new services to be deployed across all of our supported clouds
• - Build tools & services to allow automated infrastructure provisioning and self-healing, including deployments and upgrades
• - Make resilience and observability integral to the system, enabling us to run a managed, cloud-based streaming-as-a-service with >99.9% uptime

Required Skills

• - Passion for working on deeply technical projects, distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, and correctness
• - Extensive experience designing and operating reliable large-scale systems in public clouds
• - Experience in shaping, managing, and deploying workloads in Kubernetes
• - Deep understanding of Go
• - Expert knowledge of at least one: AWS, Azure, GCP including experience with IAC both system and network infrastructure
• - Understanding of stream processing
• - Experience and comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, in the open and a self-starter
• - Passion to grow a culture of written tradition
• - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of engaging with stakeholders at all levels of the organization

Benefits

• - Remote-first company
• - Competitive salary
• - Opportunity to work with a fast-moving, 100% remote organization with team members around the globe
• - Culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness