2 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Placer.ai’s GCP infrastructure, including multi-cluster GKE, Terraform through Atlantis, and ArgoCD GitOps.
- Improve CI/CD pipeline reliability and developer tooling to reduce friction and increase release velocity.
- Manage production and development environments across multiple workloads with high availability requirements.
- Build and maintain observability systems including dashboards, alerting, and incident response.
- Identify and resolve performance, scalability, and reliability bottlenecks before they become incidents.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure decisions from design through deployment.
- Introduce new infrastructure tools, standards, and frameworks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a Production Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering role at a SaaS product company.
- 3+ years of hands-on production Kubernetes experience operating and scaling Kubernetes.
- 2+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent at scale.
- Experience managing production databases and queues such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or similar.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose programming language: Python, Go, or Ruby.
- Strong monitoring and alerting fundamentals.
- Preferred qualifications include GCP experience, CKA certification or deep Kubernetes ecosystem knowledge, experience with RabbitMQ or Kafka at scale, and familiarity with ArgoCD or equivalent GitOps workflows.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with a U.S. annualized base pay range of $190,000-$210,000.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible time off.
- 401(k) plan.
- Equity awards for certain roles.
- Hybrid work environment.
- Global remote workforce and equal opportunity workplace.
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About Placer.ai
Placer.ai builds a SaaS location analytics platform that turns aggregated, privacy-safe mobile location and geospatial data into foot-traffic and trade-area insights for retailers, commercial real estate, and public-sector teams. Customers use its web-based tools and APIs to analyze sites, markets, and consumer behavior and inform investments, marketing, and operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, the company is privately held and serves thousands of organizations, including Fortune 500 brands and local governments.