Staff Platform Engineer

6 days ago


Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand Sks Enterpprises Full time

Who is Recruiting from Scratch: Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies.
Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.
This role is remote in US or Canada.
As we build the foundation for SRE, this person will play a critical role in shaping our infrastructure and operational excellence in addition to being a full backend software engineer.
Leveraging battle-tested technologies such as Kubernetes, Postgres, and AWS, they will go beyond managing infrastructure to build tools that enable our engineers to create performant, scalable, and resilient applications.
However, since we are a small team, we will expect them to be a fully functioning backend software engineer as well.
They will be 20% SRE and 80% backend engineer (they need to be able to do backend feature work and integrations).
Who You Are Backend Engineer Tech Stack: Python/Django (Django required)DevOps/SRE Tech Stack: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Github Actions, AWS, Postgres, Redis.They don't need to have DevOps/SRE title, but from their resume they should have some of the DevOps keywords listed right above.A lot of early startups don't have dedicated SREs but a senior BE architect/engineer is usually responsible for the DevOps work.
Comfortable with: Scalable & Maintainable API / Feature DevelopmentAPI/SFTP IntegrationsMonitoring and troubleshooting Postgres DBMaintaining developer environments.Managing CI pipelines and runners.Setting up and managing alerting systems.Providing on-call support and guidance to other developers to triage issues.Impact and Expectations: Contribute to key performance indicators (KPIs) such as system uptime, performance metrics, and compliance standards.Make a significant impact within the first 6-12 months by leading initiatives to improve infrastructure and operational practices.Candidate requirements2+ years of experience in DevOpsProfessional experience with containers (Docker, etc) (5+ years required)Professional experience with AWS (5+ years required)Strong fundamental understanding and usage of a RDBMS [Postgres preferred]In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with monitoring solutions [Prometheus, Loki, DataDog, Sentry, etc]Strong work ethic, end-to-end ownership mentalityBackend Python/Django experience The salary range is $140,000 - $200,000

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