Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Productivity team, you will lead the effort to build systems that enable teams to deliver secure, highly scalable, distributed services. You will leverage technology such as Kubernetes, Bazel, Nix, Golang, and Ruby on Rails to build automated systems, infrastructure, and release pipelines as well as the distributed systems themselves. You will also provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.
What You’ll Do
- Help define the direction for the team.
- Define and prioritize Developer Productivity initiatives.
- Enable teams to build features at scale by providing a foundation of reusable software components and infrastructure.
- Become one of the subject matter experts on the team.
- Create deployment pipelines; take code from git to production.
- Build infrastructure that enables fast, robust automated testing and validation.
- Improve the performance and reliability of existing systems.
- Coach junior engineers.
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone with specific experience in creating and improving systems that will help the engineering org to function more efficiently. This individual will have prior experience in some or all of the following:
- Building CI/CD infrastructure.
- Improving the release process.
- Streamlining microservice creation mechanisms.
- Streamlining developer's local environments.
- Working with mechanisms that facilitate reproducible builds across the org.
- Practicing and advocating for best engineering practices throughout the org.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years software development experience
- Experience improving the developer experience with multiple stakeholders in a large organization.
- Experience in Golang, Ruby on Rails, Python or similar language.
- Working knowledge of AWS services and technologies.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management (Terraform, Nix, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc...)
- Experience with large scale distributed release management processes. Experience with Bazel is a plus.
- Experience with container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm.
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