Systems Engineer

You will work alongside a small and deeply hardworking engineering group, building out services that power mobile experiences for a majority of top companies around the world. Today, we are powering many billions of API transactions a day and growing rapidly. We are looking for an experienced systems engineer to continue our transformation to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) within a large and complex public cloud environment. If you are passionate about building secure and reliable distributed systems, come join us! If you're passionate about managing resilient, and reliable infrastructure systems at scale, we need your help! Our engineering team builds highly scalable systems to handle 23 billion transactions per day on multiple Kubernetes clusters with ~250 nodes each.

As a Staff Systems Engineer you’ll get to:

• Identify & drive platform stability projects. Evaluate ROI and work with technical leadership to find and complete large, measurable wins.
• Make our amazing team of engineers even more efficient with a focus on reliability, automation, operability, and performance.
• Work collaboratively with product managers, infrastructure, platform and data engineers to refine requirements, architect, and implement complex systems.
• Debug hard problems - that’s a given! When things break -- and they will -- you will find yourself debugging those challenging bugs and will be eager and able to fix things.
• Mentor other specialists and contribute to team growth and development.
• Audit costs for opportunities to reduce waste.
• Continuously learn something new, whether it’s a new technology or a quirk of a language we otherwise didn’t know. On occasion, you may find yourself picking up a new language or working with an unfamiliar platform. If this does not intimidate you, and you're eager to dive in and get the job done you will be right at home.

You’ll be a good fit if you have:

• 4+ years of experience managing production Linux systems.
• Experience managing Cloud Infrastructure on AWS (EC2, ELBs, S3).
• Experience designing scalable cloud solutions.
• Experience with modern configuration management tools (SaltStack, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Fabric, etc).
• Experience with large scale distributed databases like Aerospike, FoundationDB, ElasticSearch, or Cassandra.
• Experience managing and debugging high-volume web deployments on common frameworks like nginx, node.js, JVM, etc.
• Experience operating open source databases on AWS such as Postgres, MySQL, and Redis.
• Ability to demonstrate ownership of features and systems and pursue a result driven development approach consistent with pragmatism.
• High attention to detail and a strong desire to continually improve.

Bonus points for any of the following

• Experience with observability systems such as Prometheus, ELK, etc.
• Familiarity with data pipeline management at scale.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes internals and container management.
• Strong experience operating Java and JVM-based systems.

For this role, we're looking for candidates in the Denver metropolitan area for a remote position. We plan to grow our team and presence in Denver over time. This role does not qualify for relocation or visa sponsorship. 

This role requires working with healthcare clients and may necessitate additional background checks during employment.  All background checks will be conducted in compliance with applicable state and federal laws.  Any offer of employment (including continued employment) will be contingent upon your consent to such background checks and satisfactory verification of the same.

In accordance with applicable law, the following represents a reasonable estimated compensation range for this role: the estimated pay range for this role, if based in Colorado is $116,000 to $149,000.

Please note that this information is provided for those hired in Colorado only. Compensation for candidates outside of Colorado will be based on the candidate’s specific work location. 

Actual compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location and may be more or less than the amount shown above.