Senior Platform Engineer
DISQO is a next-generation consumer insights platform. We provide the highest quality consumer data to the world's largest market research agencies, analytics companies, and brands. We operate one of the world's largest true consumer insights panels. This data helps our clients understand user behavior, build better experiences, and make better decisions. We utilize cutting-edge technology and innovative, out-of-the-box strategies to collect and analyze insights which help shape the products and services of tomorrow.
This is a great opportunity to join a fun, exciting & highly motivated team and upgrade your skills while creating real impact. We use a modern tech stack and cloud infrastructure. We are not only looking for work experience, but rather the willingness to step up to challenges and the ability to learn quickly.
We believe the best software is written and managed by small teams that know how to make the impossible possible. We use agile software development techniques and modern tools to focus our efforts on solving our business goals. We use OKR’s to track everything we do. We deliver early and often. We obsess over our code, architecture and infrastructure. And we believe that these practices lead to higher quality products.
For this role, we are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with production-grade mastery of AWS and a desire to grow your leadership skills. Leveling will be determined on current/past experience and demonstrated performance, based on results from interviews and tech assessments.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Reporting to the Director of Platform Engineering, lead a growing team of high-performing engineers
- Help define and enforce DevOps standards, procedures, and guidelines to improve the overall development process
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your peers
- Cultivate a modern DevOps culture and mindset throughout your teams and establish performance metrics and processes to improve velocity and deliverability
- Deploy and support high-performance, highly-available infrastructure on AWS
- Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
- Conduct periodic on call duties
- Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure
- Work closely with engineering and project management to develop tools and solutions
- Identify tactical issues and react to emerging areas of concern
- Think long-term and dislike band-aids
- Identify unnecessary complexity and remove it
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in an SRE/SysAdmin, DevOps, or equivalent role
- 3+ years of production AWS experience, including but not limited to EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Auto Scale, ELB
- 2+ years of experience in technical leadership role managing DevOps in Agile environments (Scrum)
- Capability to program in at least one language (other than Bash), ideally Python, PHP or Java
- Solid knowledge of the Linux architecture
- Experience with container stacks and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, ECS, etc)
- Experience with Configuration Management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible
- Experience with Infrastructure as a Code frameworks such as Terraform
- Experience with Microservices
- Experience with application monitoring tools (DataDog, New Relic, SumoLogic, etc)
- Strong knowledge of core protocols and tech such as: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, load balancers, distributed file systems, key-value and relational databases
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced work environment
- Experience with CI/CD tools and production code deployments
Benefits & Perks:
- 100% covered Medical/Dental/Vision for employee
- Equity
- Paid vacation
- Flexible work hours
- Catered lunches 3x's a week
- Stocked pantry
- Happy Hours
- Weekly Yoga
- Discounted Gym Membership
- Commuter Program
- Quarterly Offsite's
DISQO is an equal opportunity employer
*Recruiting firms that submit resumes to DISQO without first entering into a written contract will not be entitled to any compensation on candidates referred by that firm.