4 days ago
Baku, AzerbaijanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead technical direction for the Yalla platform and set architecture, design, and operational standards.
- Partner with engineering leadership to shape priorities and align the platform with bp’s strategy.
- Mentor and coach engineers through coding practices, design reviews, and operational standards.
- Design and build platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, security, and efficiency.
- Write production-ready code using .NET, Python, Java, Go, or other languages.
- Develop APIs and unit tests using low-level design principles and design patterns.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and Linux-related issues.
- Automate toil and create self-service developer workflows using SRE and platform engineering practices.
- Design for observability and improve platform reliability and transparency.
- Set technical vision, lead complex design discussions, influence roadmaps, and drive cross-team alignment.
Requirements
- Strong coding ability, including fluency with data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with API development, low-level code design, and practical application of design patterns.
- Ability to design and implement a robust testing strategy.
- Understanding of infrastructure and network design and common failure modes.
- Experience identifying engineering toil and automating solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals, including scheduling, networking, controllers, and orchestration.
- Skill debugging infrastructure, networking, and Kubernetes issues using Linux tools.
- Deep understanding of metrics, logs, traces, and monitoring systems.
- Proven ability to set technical vision and influence team- or platform-level roadmaps.
- Experience leading engineers through complex design discussions and trade-offs.
- Ability to mentor and grow engineers, foster collaboration, and represent the team with senior stakeholders.
- Preferred experience includes on-call production incident response, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes operators or controllers, custom tooling, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Benefits
- Hybrid office/remote working arrangement.
- Flexible working options, generous paid parental leave, and retirement benefits.
- Up to 10% travel is expected.
- Not eligible for relocation assistance.
- Reasonable accommodation is available for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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About BP
BP is a global, publicly traded energy company that explores and produces oil and gas, refines and markets fuels and lubricants (including the Castrol brand), and trades energy products for consumers and industrial customers. It also operates convenience and retail fuel networks and invests in EV charging (bp pulse), bioenergy, and wind and solar projects. Founded in 1909 and headquartered in London, it is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges.