Sr. Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the cloud infrastructure that Chronograph runs on
• Maintain a first-class developer experience by building reliable internal tooling (e.g. contribute to PR environment platform allowing developers to spin up an entire application stack with its own production-scale, ZFS-based database clone)
• Build and use AI-assisted tooling to automate operational work, with sound judgment on safety and cost
• Monitor application performance and help developers debug production issues
• Improve the performance, scalability, and security of our infrastructure
• Participate in an on-call rotation, respond to production incidents with infrastructure assistance, and help teams pursue observability improvements during the post-mortem process

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, primarily working in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering roles or similar
• Architected infrastructure and tools for production SaaS applications, particularly in a rapidly growing startup environment
• Experience working with public cloud providers like AWS, production Kubernetes clusters and managed database systems
• Developed and scaled thoughtful abstractions to help manage infrastructure as code, CI/CD workflows, and local development environments
• Tuned performance and hardened security posture across a variety of systems and databases, addressing issues related to networking and other configuration/performance issues
• Integrated observability tools that enable developers to own logging, metrics, tracing, alarming, etc. for their services
• The ability to evaluate different architectural approaches, make sound decisions given the pros and cons, and deliver a clear recommendation to the team
• Clear communication skills; able to help others understand complex technical issues and committed to writing high-quality documentation
• A passion for maintainable, readable, stable, secure, and scalable code, infrastructure, and processes; stay on top of emerging industry best practices and technologies

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience with Ruby on Rails and Node.js
• Our core services are implemented in Ruby on Rails and Node.js (prior experience is a nice-to-have)

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary Range (dependent on experience): $175,000—$215,000 USD
• Flexible work arrangements (including remote / hybrid)
• Competitive salary
• 401(k)
• Unlimited and flexible vacation
• Generous health benefits
• Team week events in HQ (Brooklyn, NY) three times annually for all employees
• Fully-paid parental leave
• ...and more!