Staff Platform Software Engineer (remote)

Position Title: Staff Platform Software Engineer (remote)

Entity: KBRA Holdings

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote (Remote only:  CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, MD, NJ, MA, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA)

Summary/Overview:

KBRA (KBRA Holdings, LLC) is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Software Engineering team. (This is a remote position and eligible for those located in any of the states listed above.)  The Platform Team is focused on supporting internal engineering teams by creating services and guidance to help them reach their operational goals. The Cloud Management group within the Platform team focuses on cloud governance, security, and provisioning.

About the Team:

The organization operates under a model where small, empowered teams own the things they build from inception through production. The Platform Team was created to provide resources to these teams to enable them to rapidly deploy scalable, observable, reliable, and secure applications. Those resources include shared development tools, platforms to run their application and expertise on building, and running complex distributed systems. Our customers are internal engineering teams and it is our job to help them be successful.

We approach operations as a software engineering problem. All of our work should be captured in source control and changes we have made should be built, tested, deployed, and verified using automated pipelines.

We understand that operational roles can be stressful, so the team works to find creative solutions to achieve healthy work-life balance while meeting the organization's needs. Our current on-call rotation would have you in an on-call rotation. For Cloud Management, we have not had an alert outside of work hours in over six months.

We value learning and make time during the workday for our team members to grow their skillsets.

About the Job

This role will have a huge impact across the organization. It will require building relationships with engineers throughout the organization and all changes will have to be made while considering their impact on multiple products with active users.

Responsibilities:

• Manage AWS Account provisioning and deployment of integrations and cross-cutting concerns.
• Manage AWS Organization, guard rails, and security concerns in concert with the Cloud Security Engineer.
• Help to define and share the vision for our internal platform and services.
• Research and implement solutions that address cross-cutting concerns.
• Participate in Blameless Postmortems of production issues in order to identify potential improvements.
• Advocate for scalable, observable, reliable, and secure practices across the organization.
• Be on-call for services that the Platform Team owns and be available during production issues of systems that run on our platform.
• Provide guidance to engineering teams to effectively use cloud-based solutions.

About You:

• Encouraging and patient when dealing with engineers and teams new to running their own operations or new tools.
• Have an innate curiosity that drives to you uncover the root causes of problems.
• Have initiative and will unblock yourself in order to accomplish goals.
• Tend to iterate over solutions and deliver work incrementally rather than delivering large, risky chunks of work.
• Can mentor and frequently collaborate with people inside and outside the team.
• Take ownership of problems you're faced with.
• Experience designing, building, running, and troubleshooting complex distributed systems.
• Are willing to maintain legacy systems while working towards a solution for replacing them.

Our Tech Stack:

Our team works with many different technologies, and we understand that no one will have experience with all of them. Here is an incomplete list:

• Infrastructure/Configuration as Code: Terraform, Ansible
• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure
• Developer Tools: GitLab, OpsGenie
• Programming languages: Bash, Python, C#, NodeJS
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS), Docker Swarm, Serverless
• Observability: Datadog

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $150,000 to $180,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Cell phone reimbursement

About Us:

KBRA is a full-service credit rating agency registered in the U.S., the EU and the UK, and is designated to provide structured finance ratings in Canada. KBRA’s ratings can be used by investors for regulatory capital purposes in multiple jurisdictions.

More Info:

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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