About the team:
The Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for building and maintaining reliable infrastructure and core services that allows our backend teams to focus their efforts on building their systems while utilizing these common resources. The team adopts new technologies and practices and accompanies other teams to successful integration of those. Our tech-stack includes Kubernetes in a multi-cloud environment, GitOps with Flux, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation, Python and Shell for development / automation and various DBs for logs, metrics and other purposes.
About you:
Our ideal candidate is someone with extensive experience designing, building and maintaining highly reliable and scalable infrastructure in production environments. Someone who strongly advocates for DevOps best practices and believes in automation. Someone who can envision a long-term strategic road map and has the passion for executing it and leading others through it by inspiration and mentorship.
Your responsibilities as the head of our Cloud Infrastructure are listed below.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Planning and executing the next-gen infrastructure and core services that will allow our backend teams to build up on, serve millions of users every day and scale even beyond that.
Identify opportunities for developing infrastructure, tools or modules to support and ease the development and deployment processes for other backend teams.
Maintaining and improving systems’ reliability through mechanisms like testing, automation and monitoring and guide the team to do the same.
Continuously learn and apply industry best practices, pass this knowledge to the team and to other teams through guidance, lectures and workshops.
Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems that drives the team for growth and improvement.
Together with your engineering team, you will share an on-call rotation.
REQUIREMENTS
5+ years of experience developing backend systems in one or more of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Scala, JavaScript.
Good understanding of software engineering concepts and methodologies.
5+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable and highly available production backend systems in the cloud, preferably AWS or GCP.
Experience in building and managing microservice systems in a containerized environment. Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
Good familiarity with various DB engines – relational and non-relational, and good understanding of when and how to utilize each.
Experience with CI/CD solutions and writing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud-Formation). Practicing GitOps methodology is a plus.
Deep understanding of networking, protocols and network-security concepts.
B.Sc. in computer science or similar quantitative field.
