Sr. Platform Engineer - Microservices

Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.

Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.

Founded in 2014, we’re a remote-first company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.

We are looking for a motivated engineer with a passion for building tools and framework that support large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant microservices and drive engineering innovation. Embedded in an Agile environment, you will work cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers company-wide to ensure that Octane’s services, both internally critical and externally visible. You will have the opportunity to use your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis, and large-scale system design to solve the many challenges of microservices architecture.

Responsibilities: 

• Plan, design, develop, and support the microservices templating engine that produces skeleton code that enables easy integration with database, secure vault, and APM etc.
• Automate the process of creating, deploying, configuring and monitoring of microservices to enable engineers to move fast and focus on implementing features rather than infrastructure.
• Recommend a set of microservices best practices and evangelize it to the rest of the engineering organization.
• Design, build and maintain tools that enable platform engineers to monitor the overall health of the  service mesh including traffic monitoring, fault detection, call tracking etc.
• Lead hands on training workshops to educate other engineers on how to use the tools to build microservices and troubleshoot when something goes wrong.
• Partner with engineers from other teams to produce a strategy to break up the monolithic systems into multiple microservices.
• Provide consultation to other teams on microservices design and troubleshooting. Fix issues discovered in the debugging process to unblock other engineers.
• Mentoring and coaching junior engineers

• Establish key operational policies in areas such as emergency response (e.g. runbook).

• Respond to outages with a timely and efficient resolution in support of a production cloud infrastructure and applications

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, fault-tolerant systems, preferably microservices
• 3+ years of experience leading multiple projects designing, building, and/or running production systems in cloud or virtualized environments
• Advanced knowledge in containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS’ EC2, ECR, Cloudfront, Route 53
• Strong knowledge of Linux and shell/bash scripting
• Strong scripting and coding skills commonly used within DevOps workflows
• Strong knowledge of Python and building microservices using framework such as Django
• Deep understanding of build and release automation and dependency management
• Experience with logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability tools (e.g. Datadog, Sumo, Sentry)
• Experience configuring and maintaining databases (RDBMS & NoSQL)
• Experience managing distributed systems which can handle data at scale
• Experience with DevOps practices including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, automated deployment, automated testing, autoscaling, and self-healing

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