Flexport

Staff Software Engineer: Platform SRE

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2 hours ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate reliable and scalable infrastructure in AWS and other cloud platforms.
  • Evolve Kubernetes, Helm charts, Argo deployment systems, and platform guardrails for safe service deployment and operations.
  • Improve observability using OpenMetrics and Datadog.
  • Establish standards for Terraform infrastructure-as-code codebases.
  • Create and support CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, and artifact repositories.
  • Improve incident response tooling and lead incident response, post-mortems, and follow-up actions.
  • Partner across organizational boundaries to deliver platform-wide infrastructure changes.
  • Design and improve identity, networking, disaster recovery, business continuity, resilience, and cloud cost-efficiency practices.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of software engineering, site reliability engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience with substantial production infrastructure experience.
  • Deep cloud infrastructure knowledge and hands-on AWS experience.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code skills, preferably with Terraform, and experience creating safe, reusable infrastructure patterns.
  • Solid software engineering skills and the ability to build automation and production tooling in a general-purpose programming language.
  • Experience leading incident response and conducting blameless post-mortems or COE processes.
  • Ability to make sound infrastructure decisions involving security, IAM, networking, and change management.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for documenting designs, incidents, operational tradeoffs, and platform-wide changes.
  • Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments and identify high-leverage problems.
  • Preferred experience operating AWS at scale across multiple accounts, regions, and availability zones; GitOps and Argo CD; IAM and OIDC; disaster recovery and resilience testing; and cloud cost optimization.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the office.
  • Latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one.
  • Daily catered lunches, breakfast, snacks, and soft drinks in the office.
  • Home-office commuting costs covered for employees living outside Amsterdam.
  • 25 vacation days based on full-time employment.
  • Employer-paid collective health insurance with basic and additional packages.
  • Defined pension contribution scheme.
  • Equity program for team members.
  • Employer-sponsored Employee Assistance Program through Aetna Resources for Living.
  • Parental leave benefits for mothers and partners.

Tech Stack

Argo CDAWSBazelBuildkiteDatadogGitHub ActionsGoGradleHelmKubernetesnpmTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About Flexport

1,001-5,000 employees

Our mission is to make global trade so easy that there will be more of it.

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