Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate team-level projects that improve system reliability across a large distributed architecture.
- Design and implement complex reliability solutions and internal platforms.
- Build an AI agent to improve incident response workflows.
- Act as a senior Incident Commander during major outages and lead blameless post-mortems.
- Develop and scale a self-service performance-testing platform for distributed load tests with real-time observability.
- Build an automated resiliency platform for continuous fault injection and lead quarterly data center failover experiments.
- Own system reliability, manage technical debt, and automate infrastructure.
- Mentor less experienced engineers and establish code-quality standards.
- Influence architecture decisions, team communication, and technical direction.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in at least one infrastructure, tooling, or backend programming language: Kotlin, Java, Python, or Go.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, containerized environments, orchestration, networking, and service mesh concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Chaos Engineering, fault injection, failure scenarios, and performance-testing frameworks; Gatling experience is a plus.
- Deep experience configuring monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
- Ability to identify single points of failure and serve as Incident Commander during major outages.
- Strong practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure management using infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Track record of mentoring engineers, setting code-quality standards, and shaping architecture decisions.
- Strong ownership and data-driven decision-making skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid 4/1 work model with flexible hours starting between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., plus 30 days of occasional remote work.
- Long-term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu restricted stock units and an annual performance- and company-results bonus.
- Well-located offices with equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces, ergonomic workstations, and interactive conference rooms.
- Choice of a 16-inch or 14-inch MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell Windows laptop with necessary accessories.
- Cafeteria-plan benefits including medical, sports, lunch, insurance, and purchase-voucher packages.
- Employer-paid English classes related to the job.
- Training budget, inter-team tourism, hackathons, and access to an internal learning platform.
- Additional volunteering day off and company social events.
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About Allegro
Allegro is the most popular shopping platform in Poland and the largest e-commerce platform of European origin. We operate a marketplace model which means that customers can buy whatever they need from over 135,000 merchants, who can list an unlimited number of offers on our platform. We offer products in all key categories including Automotive, Fashion, Home&Garden, Electronics, Books and Collectibles, Kids or Health and Beauty. Each month, 22 million customers visit our platform, which is equivalent to almost 80% of all Internet users in Poland. They can choose from over 250m offers at the most attractive prices with maximum convenience including fast and free deliveries under the Allegro Smart! programme, modern financial services (Allegro Pay), as well as Poland’s widest 50k pickup points network. In 2019 we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Allegro in Poland. For over two decades, we have been serving consumers and promoting the idea of entrepreneurship in one of the most innovative areas of the economy. We have come a long way from an auction site for private individuals looking for a modern alternative to their local flea market. Today, we are a vibrant international marketplace platform for professional sellers and a must-have sales channel for top international brands and retailers. We currently employ more than 7000 employees and each of us ranks among the best experts in their field. Whether it’s in Technology, Customer Experience, Commerce, Delivery Experience or many other teams, we’re all proud to say that Allegro employs the best people on the market and all of us are ready to admit that it’s #goodtobehere. ESG Report 2022: https://allegro.pl/zobacz/esg Career at Allegro: https://jobs.allegro.eu/ Allegro Tech: https://allegro.tech/ Brand Journal: magazyn.allegro.pl Support & help: pomoc.allegro.pl // facebook.com/allegro