Staff Platform Engineer

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Senior software engineer at Kentik improving infrastructure and developing tools for engineers. Collaborating with various teams to ensure reliability and effective operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
  • Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
  • Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …)
  • Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
  • Mentoring of junior team members
  • Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
  • Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of relevant experience
  • Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
  • Strong coding skills in Go or Python (alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
  • Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
  • An SRE mindset and and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems

Benefits:

  • 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
  • Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
  • Paid family & medical leave
  • Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • Home office reimbursement
  • Stock options