Platform Engineer

Job Summary:

Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability

• Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others

• Develop and maintain a public API

• Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests

• Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)

• Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features

• Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system

• Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability

• Closely monitor all platform related production systems

• Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms.

• Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.

• Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.

• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.

• Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Qualifications:

• Experience in software/systems development.

• Strong software development background, experience building software systems.

• Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.

• Strong background in Linux administration.

• Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.

• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.

• Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).

• Understanding of computer networks.

• Experience with administration of at production scale.