Senior Systems Engineer
Skills
Cloud ComputingMicrosoft AzureSoftware DevelopmentAmazon Web ServicesConfiguration ManagementEngineeringGoogle Cloud Platform
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Significant experience in backend DevOps or infrastructure engineering roles in large-scale SaaS PaaS or IaaS environments
- Extensive experience working with Linux in production environments
- Advanced knowledge of at least one major cloud provider including AWS GCP or Azure
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code and automation using tools such as Terraform Pulumi Ansible or Chef
- Expertise in containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker Kubernetes ECS or Nomad
- Experience scripting and writing code in Bash Python Go or similar languages
- A proven track record contributing to large-scale infrastructure migrations high-availability initiatives or performance optimization efforts
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry or similar tools
- Excellent communication skills with a collaborative mindset and the ability to work effectively across engineering teams
- A strong mentoring orientation and a desire to help raise the bar for engineering quality and operational excellence
Nice to have
- hands-on
- pragmatic
- strong technical judgment
- secure systems focus
- maintainable systems
- scalable systems
- collaborative
- bias toward execution
- continuous improvement
Day to day
- Design and maintain reliable infrastructure systems that support the core SaaS platform with a strong focus on performance security and developer experience
- Collaborate with Product Engineering SRE and Security teams to deliver infrastructure initiatives from planning through production and improve operational outcomes
- Build automate and evolve containerized platforms observability tooling and configuration standards while documenting best practices and mentoring junior engineers