4 months ago
São Paulo, BrazilSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive the architectural evolution from the custom routing layer to a modern service mesh such as Istio.
- Design, build, and maintain low-latency network components capable of sustaining millions of requests per second.
- Maintain the availability, resilience, and scalability of core Ingress, DNS, Service Mesh, and CDN services.
- Apply service-design and distributed-systems principles to scalable backend services and infrastructure tooling.
- Use AI for development, refactoring, testing, and documentation while applying judgment in critical infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers, document for technical and non-technical audiences, and participate in hiring.
Requirements
- Deep hands-on experience operating and evolving Kubernetes infrastructure as a backend or platform engineer.
- Experience designing and running mission-critical, high-throughput systems handling millions of requests per second.
- Strong knowledge of service design, distributed systems, and networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, proxies, and microservices communication.
- Comfort working with complex legacy systems and building replacement systems.
- Experience with .NET is a plus, and familiarity with Istio and Envoy is highly desired.
- Fluent use of AI tools in engineering work and sound judgment about their application.
- Ability to communicate and negotiate technical trade-offs across teams and with non-technical partners.
- Advanced English proficiency.
Benefits
- Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility.
- National health, dental, and life insurance coverage provided by VTEX.
- Annual professional development budget for technology.
- Language development incentive program for English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
- Flexible meal allowance.
- Extended parental leave and childcare assistance.
- Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture.
- Financial assistance for a work-from-home setup.
- Wellness program.
- Free shipping on more than 1,000 VTEX stores.
- Hiring includes an AI-enabled take-home assignment followed by a live technical session.
Tech Stack
About VTEX
VTEX provides a composable, cloud-native commerce platform used by brands, retailers, and distributors to run B2C and B2B storefronts, order management, and marketplace operations. Delivered as subscription SaaS with headless APIs, it supports multi-store, multi-country deployments. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in London, VTEX is a public company listed on the NYSE and serves customers such as Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool.