Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineer is a professional with at least 3 years of experience in systems and infrastructure engineering, specializing in startups within the tech industry. This individual is talented in problem-solving, seeks coding excellence, ensures comprehensive testing, and adopts scalable software solutions.

Who We Are

• We are an early-stage startup focused on building automation of Asset Management (ITAM) for B2B clients within the physical, digital, and organizational automation space.
• We are a remote-first, geographically-distributed team open to candidates from around the world.
• We are committed to transparency, openness, and supporting each other to build great things.
• We approach our products with genuine curiosity and recognize that innovative tech solutions pair best with high-performance, engaged teams.
• We offer great benefits, including a 100% remote work environment, flexible schedules, and ongoing growth opportunities.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in startup environments within the tech sector.
• Familiarity with cloud patterns, covering security, scalability, availability, reliability, maintainability, and quality.
• Good analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Communication skills and an ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years demonstrating mastery of cloud and infrastructure management, mainly in production applications over AWS.
• Expertise in provisioning, configuring, deploying, maintaining, and repairing production artifacts and resources, such as databases, processing queues, instances, networks, and RBAC users over AWS.
• Proficiency in working with platform as code (PaC), such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Expertise in working with orchestration services like Kubernetes, AWS EKS/ECS, or AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
• Knowledge of provisioning frameworks like Chef or Ansible.
• Good understanding of monitoring tools and platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog.
• Hands-on experience with shell script for creating automated routines and remote environment management and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of Git and branching models for collaborating with team members.

Nice-To-Haves

• Command of CI/CD best practices to streamline development pipelines.
• Familiarity with Identity Providers, Active Directory, and LDAP.
• Enhanced skills with other programming languages like C++, Rust, or Go are highly valued.
• A comprehensive grasp of network connectivity, traffic encryption, authentication protocols, proxy, firewall, VPN, and SSH tunnels.

Responsibilities

• Consistently write functions that are easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and account for edge cases and errors. Use docstrings effectively.
• Understand the testing pyramid and write unit tests in accordance with it, as well as higher-level tests with help from more senior engineers. Always test expected edge cases and errors as well as the happy path.
• Understand a portion of the team's domain and gain sufficient context to work productively. Design functions that are aligned with the overall service architecture. Use a systematic approach to debug issues located within a single service.
• Before beginning work, ensure that tasks are appropriately sized for continuous integration and incremental delivery with help from teammates and the manager.
• Usually communicate effectively, clearly, concisely, and in an audience-oriented way in written and verbal form, both technical and non-technical subjects, to your teammates. Actively listen to others and ensure they are understood. Pay attention to nonverbal communication.
• Understand your work domain, share knowledge frequently with your teammates, and contribute to your team's documentation. Watches out for opportunities to share knowledge.
• When requested, help your teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Give or share credit where due.
• Seek out mentorship to grow your own experience. Sometimes mentor your teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, and empathetic manner.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Work from anywhere - we are 100% remote
• Unlimited PTO (vacation, time to recharge, US or local holidays)
• Flexible working hours with 4 hours overlapping in US Eastern time
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies while contributing to impactful projects
• Collaborative, innovative, and supportive work culture
• Chance to be mentored by a team of talented engineers
• Professional growth and development opportunities

Recruitment Process

We are committed to providing a simplified, transparent, and streamlined hiring experience. You may expect the following stages:

1. Technical assessment and code challenge
2. Meeting with your future Engineering Manager
3. Technical interview with the technical leadership
4. Cultural fit interview with the CTO
5. Get a job offer, sign contracts, and define your start date.
6. Welcome aboard!

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