2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into proposals and drive them through RFCs and cross-team architecture reviews.
- Design self-service platform capabilities and APIs, primarily in Go, for onboarding, provisioning, deployment, observability defaults, and day-two operations.
- Set delivery standards using Terraform, GitOps with Argo CD, progressive rollout, testing, and continuous deployment.
- Evolve multi-tenant EKS foundations for reliability, security, scale, and cost, including Envoy Gateway ingress, traffic routing, and multi-region cross-account connectivity.
- Improve SLOs, alerting, incident follow-up, runbooks, and on-call health using Grafana Cloud.
- Develop safe, auditable, human-reviewed AI-assisted operational workflows for alert enrichment, incident context gathering, diagnosis, remediation recommendations, onboarding, and readiness.
- Stay hands-on in the codebase while setting technical direction and driving platform investments through production adoption.
- Join the on-call rotation after onboarding and shadowing and participate in blameless postmortems.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional, hands-on, full-time software engineering experience in backend, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong software engineering skills in Go or a similar language, including design, testing, debugging, review, and maintainability.
- Track record designing, shipping, and operating cloud services or infrastructure platforms in production.
- Deep expertise in at least one of Kubernetes, networking, cloud platforms, reliability engineering, or developer platforms, plus solid Linux, networking, and production-operations fundamentals.
- Experience setting technical direction and leading work requiring cross-team alignment.
- Clear written and verbal communication in a remote environment, including RFCs, design documents, and incident writeups.
- EKS and ingress, CNI, or service-mesh experience is preferred.
- Observability experience with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana is preferred.
- CI/CD and progressive-delivery experience with GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or canaries is preferred.
- Experience leading migrations or adoption programs across teams is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote-first work arrangement with offices in Seattle and Paris
- Flexible work schedule and quarterly Whaleness Days plus an end-of-year Whaleness break
- Home office setup support
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave after six months of employment
- Technology stipend of $100 USD net per month
- PTO plan
- Training stipend for conferences, courses, and classes
- Equity participation
- Medical benefits, retirement, and holidays varying by country
- Docker Swag
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