
Staff Platform Engineer
Kentik
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
- Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
- Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …)
- Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
- Mentoring of junior team members
- Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
- Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
- Strong coding skills in Go or Python (alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
- Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
- An SRE mindset and and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems
Benefits
- 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
- Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
- Paid family & medical leave
- Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
- 401(k) retirement account
- Home office reimbursement
- Stock options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
GoNode.jsPythonPostgresKafkaRedisServer-side JavaScriptRubyJavaService orchestration
Soft skills
MentoringAdvocacyEducationCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationStrategic thinkingReliability focusPerformance optimizationCapacity planning