Description
We are seeking a technical, hands-on, empathetic senior software engineer to help define and deliver our Platform as a Service (PAAS) mission. As a senior engineer on the PAAS team, you will collaborate with the team to deliver forward-looking, customer-centric tooling. Your expertise in building and using best-in-class infrastructure tools will equip our engineering organisation with tools to move quickly and deliver features that bring millions of people together.
Key responsibilities include:
- Working with customer engineering teams to ensure we’re building solutions that developers love using day-in and day-out
- Collaborating with the Internal Development Experience (IDX) team to ensure an easy path to go from development through staging into production
- Working with the Platform Security team in order to secure every path to production
- Shipping Rust code to YAY, our in-house deployment tooling built around Google Kubernetes Engine and Temporal
- Exposing the full flexibility of Kubernetes for users while abstracting the complexities away
- Building tools to manage the configuration, observability, and scaling characteristics of our infrastructure
Requirements include:
- 5+ years of experience in software development with a focus on tooling, infrastructure, and automation
- Experience working in multi-milestone and even multi-quarter projects
- Expertise and empathy when troubleshooting issues with customer engineering teams
- Expertise using and building upon the primitives of standard cloud infrastructure tooling like Kubernetes, Docker
- Experience developing in cloud-based environments (we use Google Cloud; knowledge of Amazon Web Services and/or Azure also great!)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling (we use Terraform)
Bonus points for experience with CI, build, and deployment technologies like Buildkite, Bazel, and Terraform, as well as cloud networking tools like istio, envoy, etc. and application observability tools like Datadog and/or Sentry.