Software Engineer II

The Foundational Infrastructure team is a mission-critical team within Compass’ Technology Infrastructure organization and is responsible for managing infrastructure and building software tools that the rest of Compass depends on. Our mission is to build the tools that enable Compass Engineering to move fast for our customers and make it easy for engineers to develop, deploy, and monitor their software. We manage the core components Compass is built upon including the networking, compute, storage, Observability and infrastructure-as-code layers. Infrastructure at scale is complex, our job is to simplify and automate.

At Compass, you will:  

• Collaborate with engineers on your team to develop and extend best-in-class software infrastructure services
• Work across the entire infrastructure software development lifecycle – enabling Compass engineers to build reliable, scalable and highly performant services
• Identify opportunities to automate infrastructure systems and enable self serve model
• Participate in code reviews, document reviews, and other collaborative processes within your team
• Write and extend technical documentation (e.g. runbooks) for services your team owns
• Join a high-performing team with org-wide visibility and challenging projects on the horizon to help grow your career

Requirements:

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years working with at least one of our programming languages (Golang, Python,Java)
• High proficiency designing and implementing backend microservices and automation scripting.
• High proficiency working with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

Nice to haves:

• Experience working with AWS or any cloud technologies is a plus
• Experience with networking technologies (DNS, HTTP, AWS Networking) is a plus
• Experience managing/administering microservice architectures is a plus
• Experience with networking technologies (DNS, CIDR distribution, VPC peering,HAProxy) is a plus
• Experience with Infra as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) is a plus
• Experience managing/administering microservice architectures is a plus

Our Tools:

• AWS: EKS, CloudFront, ASG/ELB, S3, Route53, VPCs, Security Groups
• Docker / Kubernetes
• NGINX / Istio / HAProxy / Service Mesh
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• DataDog
• Golang, Python, and Node

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is $94,000-$142,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Bonuses and restricted stock units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of benefits. Base pay is based on market location. Minimum wage for the position will always be met.