Platform Engineer

This is a remote position.

Our client is a USA-based international company with a cloud-based, business-to-business SaaS platform for managing bookings for “spaces” at venues and workplaces. It is used by a wide spectrum of organizations to enable self-service bookings for their rooms, desks, studios, halls, courts, or any other kind of “space”. It’s truly an international world-class product, with active customers in over 2500 cities globally. With 10+ years of experience, the client is stable, profitable, has a loyal customer base, and is growing. They are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer who will be responsible for managing and maintaining their DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, and release management platforms and processes.

 
Why work here

• International team located in: Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, South Africa, Macedonia, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Mexico, Canada, USA, and growing.
  
• Engineering team is mostly located in Europe - lots of time overlap
  
• Great culture and people
  
• Work with a small team and have a big impact
  
• Flexible schedule in the fully-remote team
  
• Creative and collaborative work environment
  
• Work directly with the Chief Architect and Co-Founder based in Europe
  
• Onboard quickly with a thorough and organized engineering onboarding process
  
• Hardware of your choice - PC or Mac
  
• Develop with the latest platforms, frameworks, tooling and standards
  
• Work in, and maintain, a zero technical debt environment
  
• Very low production incident count
  
• Be empowered to leave a significant mark on the product and the customers
  

 
Ideal Candidate Profile

• Located in Europe
  
• Solid English skills - There should be no language barrier, both verbal and written.
  
• Not shy - They use Loom to record themselves on video in order to communicate, convey ideas, etc. Colleagues have to be comfortable recording themselves in front of a camera.
  
• Independent - An engineer should be able to take on a task/effort and be able to see it through from beginning to end.
  
• True and mature owner - When taking responsibility for anything, they own it and do what is necessary to finish without being reminded.
  
• Skill level - We were very intentional when we listed the skills on the job description, we expect candidates to meet those requirements. We are mostly looking for solid mid-level candidates.
  
• Test automation - We don’t have a QA team or testers. Our engineers are the testers and are expected to be proficient in writing automated tests and fully test the code they write.
  

Responsibilities

DevOps

• Management, monitoring, and maintenance of build, test and deployment pipelines in Azure DevOps (for mobile and web products)
  
• Provide guidance on best practices for software delivery and operations
  

 SRE

• Incident response, triage, and management
  
• Conducting infrastructure capacity planning and performance tuning
  
• Collaborating with engineers to design and implement scalable and resilient systems
  
• Maintenance and improvement of cloud infrastructure reliability and scalability
  
• Implementing and maintaining disaster recovery procedures
  

 Cloud Infrastructure

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure
  
• Implementing infrastructure as code (IAC) and relevant automations for cloud-resource provisioning, backup and recovery purposes.
  
• Implementing and maintaining relevant security and compliance policies
  
• Provide guidance on best practices for cloud infrastructure
  

 Release Management

• Creating and maintaining release schedules
  
• Coordinating the release of software and systems with the engineering team
  
• Managing the release process, including staging, deployment, and feature roll-out
  
• Identifying and mitigating risks associated with releases
  
• Provide guidance on best practices for release management
  

Personality

• You honor your word and own whatever you take on
  
• You love to build intuitive software
  
• You make mistakes and learn fast
  
• You like small teams
  
• You’re not afraid to ask questions
  
• You pay attention to detail
  
• You want to make a difference in the real world
  
• You’re self-driven
  
• You follow your intuition and sync when needed
  
• You strive for excellence in everything you do
  

Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, and/or SRE
  
• Strong experience with PaaS-based cloud infrastructure in Azure: App Service, Storage, SQL Database, Front Door, Key Vault, Log Analytics Workspace
  
• Strong understanding of cloud-security concepts
  
• Strong scripting skills on the Azure platform (e.g. Azure CLI)
  
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
  
• Experience with creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps YAML pipelines is a plus)
  
• Experience with production deployment changes and releases
  
• Experience with Disaster Recovery
  
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools
  

The Infrastructure Stack: Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps

Compensation - The annual salary range is $70-90K USD. While the client would like to stay within this range, they may be able to pay slightly more than $90K for an exceptional engineer.

Employment - They employ candidates through remote.com and do not offer visa sponsorship.