Staff Cloud Engineer

About the role and why it’s unique:

As a Staff Cloud Engineer, you will have an impactful role in building and determining the interoperability of our Kubernetes footprint. Your expertise in cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies, creative problem-solving skills, and collaborative cross-functional abilities will contribute to delivering highly reliable, efficiency-focused infrastructure that enable us to create an engaging experience for our customers. In addition you will be tasked with the following:

• Work cross-functionally to enable backend teams to develop confidence in how their applications will interoperate and perform across data centers.
• Continuous optimization of our architecture for resiliency and recoverability to ensure business continuity.
• Own the deployment of Kubernetes clusters to cloud providers and colocation data centers.
• Define a technology stack to facilitate interoperability and discoverability of services deployed across data centers and regions.
• Create tooling to automate maintenance and effectively operate the environments.

Who you are:

• Skilled engineer who pushes the envelope and knows “good” gets us there, but “great” is what we continuously strive for
• Lends expertise and contributes to the success of the team to foster interpersonal and individual professional growth
• Open to feedback and eager to collaborate with other developers to accomplish tasks at hand
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills with engineers, compliance, and IT
• Ability to analyze and make technical recommendations that minimize spend in cloud environments
• Deep understanding of Linux and the command line
• 8+ years experience with CI systems (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc)
• 8+ years hand-ons experience with AWS
• 6+ years experience working with cloud object storage (S3, Google Cloud Storage)
• 6+ years working with Kubernetes
• 6+ years working with Relational Databases (Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• 5+ years working with infrastructure-as-code technologies like Terraform
• 5+ years building custom roles and managing service accounts in IAM

Even better if you have:

• Experience with CDN providers like Cloudflare and Fastly
• Experience with AWS Outpost and Direct Connect
• Experience building out multi-data center deployment in regulated industries
  

Our target starting base salary range for this position is between $185,000 and $220,000, plus target equity. The starting base salary will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills and experience, among other things.

What we can offer you:

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents