Systems Engineer- Platform (Remote: US)

Job Responsibilities

  • Accelerate engineering productivity, reduce operational toil, increase consistency, and improve the lives of your coworkers
  • Automate management of all aspects of cloud and on-prem infrastructure with Kubernetes operators and Crossplane
  • Automate management of data pipeline infrastructure such as Apache Kafka and CockroachDB.
  • Automate all aspects of application life-cycle (deployments, infrastructure management, application monitoring, change management, security, etc.)
  • Manage our customer-facing Okta instance, with an eye towards automating the onboarding process.
  • Provide common tooling for metrics, tracing, cost-management, backup and recovery
  • Provide guidance on best practices regarding application performance, cost-effectiveness, security, and reliability
  • Raise the technology bar by trailblazing, supporting, and evangelizing the platform to DomainTools developers and operators
  • Help grow and train a cross-functional platform team consisting of developers and systems engineers

Location: Remote within the United States
Compensation: $100,000-$150,000 USD + 10% Performance Bonus

Requirements

Key Applicant Qualifications

  • Delivery
    • 3+ years systems engineering experience with a strong foundation in Cloud infrastructure.
    • Familiarity with Kubernetes and declarative infrastructure management patterns
    • Familiarity with common auth mechanisms such as SSO, AWS IAM.
    • Self-motivated, able to work independently, eager to learn.
    • Nice to have: experience on a platform team or in a strong DevOps ecosystem.
  • Evangelism
    • Proven ability to interact, present and influence at all levels of companies, from executives to engineers
    • Prior experience bridging development and operations teams
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Inspiration
    • Passion for Cloud Native software and design patterns
    • Believe in and practice DevOps philosophy
    • Excited about security space!


Pluses

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science/related field or equivalent experience
  • Experience writing Kubernetes Operators
  • Broad experience with CNCF Landscape projects (e.g. Prometheus, Thanos, Vault, cert-manager, etc.)
  • Experience with streaming data patterns and applications
  • Experience deploying and operating metrics, logging, and tracing stacks at large scale
  • Experience with AuthN/AuthZ (e.g. OAuth) and secrets management
  • Design, implementation and/or maintenance of CI/CD automation and tooling
  • Experience with infrastructure as code and declarative infrastructure
  • Experience with containerization technology and best practices