You will be involved in several different projects and initiatives, being an integral part of the team. As a member of the automation engineering team, you will contribute to technical architecture, product prioritization, automation, capacity planning, adoption of supporting technologies, and all other aspects of maintaining a world-class cloud-based service. You will work closely with software engineering teams developing Infrastructure and applications and focus on driving scalability, stability, reliability, the operability of services, and security

Responsibilities

• You are a software engineer at heart, with a compulsion to automate yourself out of a job.

• Work with development teams to ensure that applications have scalability and reliability built-in from day one. Agile is second nature to you, and you're excited to work in scrum teams and represent the DevOps perspective.

• Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans, and debug the most challenging problems.

• Innovation, creativity, and a passion for ever-improving our Infrastructure and team

• Design and enhance software architecture to improve scalability, service reliability, cost, and performance. You've helped create services that are critical to their customers' success.

• Deploy automation for provisioning and operating infrastructure on a large scale. You are experienced in Infrastructure as Code concepts and have put them into production.

• Partnered alongside the best engineers in the industry on the coolest stuff around, the code and systems you work on will be in production.

• Partner with teams to improve CI/CD processes and technology. Helping teams in delivering value early.

• Mentor members of the staff on large scale cloud deployments. You're an expert in deploying in the cloud and can bring a teaching mindset to help others benefit from your experience.

• Drive the adoption of observability practices and a data-driven mindset. You love metrics, graphs, and gaining a deep understanding of why things happen in a system, helping others gain visibility into the things they build.

• Influence engineering teams with customer focus, world-class quality, effective communication, decisive, fast-moving solutions, quick and constructive resolution of conflicts.

• You have outstanding interpersonal skills and can effectively coordinate development projects across globally distributed teams in a dynamic, growing environment.

• Support the Infrastructure owned by the SRE team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience.

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

• Strong sense of architecture and design for fault tolerance, scale-out approaches, and stability. Practiced in the AWS Well-Architected Framework or similar .

• Demonstrated experience in building tools and automation in Python for large production environments.

• You have production-grade experience operating Linux systems, with the ability to methodically diagnose system, network, and application issues.

• Working with microservice architectures running on Kubernetes and containers.

• Tools-first mindset. You build tools for yourself and others to increase efficiency and reduce churn.

• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.

• Building and scaling distributed systems is a plus.

• Experience with public cloud (AWS) at medium to large scale.

• Organized, focused on building, improving, resolving, and delivering.

• Exceptional communicator in and across teams, taking the lead.

• You are an experienced software engineer who knows how to apply engineering principles to large scale public cloud systems.