Senior Systems Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Assist in designing, constructing, and maintaining infrastructure systems that support our core SaaS platform, emphasizing performance, security, reliability, and developer experience.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product Engineering, SRE, and Security to advance infrastructure projects from concept to production.

• Assess current systems and implement architectural enhancements that boost scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency.

• Develop and manage infrastructure utilizing infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or comparable technologies.

• Employ configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or similar to enhance consistency and automation across various environments.

• Support and advance containerized platforms and orchestration systems, including technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad.

• Contribute to observability and operational excellence through improvements in monitoring, logging, alerting, and instrumentation.

• Document system designs, platform standards, and operational best practices, providing guidance to developers on effective usage.

• Mentor and support junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and ongoing learning.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to assist in maintaining the health, availability, and performance of production systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• Substantial experience in backend, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles within large-scale SaaS, PaaS, or IaaS environments.

• In-depth experience working with Linux in production settings.

• Advanced understanding of at least one major cloud provider, including AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Strong proficiency in infrastructure as code and automation utilizing tools like Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, Chef, or similar.

• Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, or Nomad.

• Experience in scripting and coding with languages like Bash, Python, Go, or similar.

• A proven history of contributing to large-scale infrastructure migrations, high-availability projects, or performance optimization initiatives.

• Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.

• Exceptional communication skills, with a collaborative approach and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.

• A strong inclination toward mentoring and a commitment to raising the bar for engineering quality and operational excellence.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.

• Life insurance.

• Short-term and long-term disability.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Vacation and sick leave.

• Variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.