[Hiring] Production Engineer @Placer.ai

Role Description

We are looking for a Production Engineer to help us build and scale Placer’s Infrastructure. This person will take an active role in shaping and implementing Placer’s architecture, as well as introduce new technologies, standards and help increase our release pipeline by building the right tools and frameworks for our developers. Passion is a MUST and passion for data even more so!

If you are someone who thrives outside their comfort zone, your place is at Placer.ai.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement tools to help our company succeed
• Taking care of our CI/CD tools
• Manage our production and multiple development environments
• Collaborate with development teams to improve our system infrastructure and stability
• Develop effective tooling, dashboards, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks
• Measure, analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Carry tasks end-to-end, from design to deployment, and take full ownership

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in a similar position
• Experience working with public cloud
• 3+ years of production experience with Kubernetes including using open source solutions from the eco-system
• 2+ years of experience with "Infrastructure as a code" tools such as Terraform, Pulumi or similar
• 2+ years of experience managing Databases and Queues such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar
• Skills with at least one of general purpose languages such as Golang, Python, Ruby or Java
• Strong skills with a variety of monitoring and alerting tools
• Sense of humor, all around team player, fast self-learning individual, problem solver

Requirements

• CKA certification or similar
• Strong Kubernetes skills, experience with modern CNIs, volume plugins, security, operators, service meshes, ingresses and K8s ecosystem
• Extensive knowledge of RabbitMQ
• Experience working with GCP

Benefits

• Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
• Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
• Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits
• Fully remote
• The U.S. annualized pay range for this position is $190,000 - $210,000 USD. In addition, certain roles have the opportunity to earn sales-based commissions.
• Base pay offered within the stated range may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related skills, professional experience, education and licenses (if applicable), work location and compensation market data.
• Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program. Placer provides medical, dental and vision coverage as well as flexible time off, 401K and equity awards for certain roles.
• Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.