ABOUT PLACER.AI:
One of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, Placer.ai (“Placer”) reached $100 million ARR “Centaur” status in 2024, within 6 years of launching the Placer platform. We previously crossed the $1B valuation “Unicorn” threshold in 2022.
Our A.I.-based SaaS platform transforms how leaders make critical decisions by unlocking unparalleled visibility into markets and locations, creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. And the best part is, we accomplished this by leading a privacy-first business in which data has been stripped of user identifiers and only aggregated information is provided within the platform.
Our platform provides instant visibility into almost any location in the U.S. We have grown exponentially over the past 6 years, counting more than 4,000+ paying customers including many Fortune 500 companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase, Wayfair, Google and many more.
Named one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast company, we are proud of our collaborative, innovative and inclusive culture.
SummaryWe 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.
This person will take the existing architecture and pave the way in pursuing and materializing our vision. 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
- 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
- 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
WHY JOIN PLACER.AI?
- 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
NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER
- Placer.ai in a nutshell
- Placer.ai's recent $100M round C funding (unicorn valuation!)
- Placer.ai's data
- Placer.ai in the news
- COVID-19 Economic Recovery Dashboard
Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.
Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.
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What We Do
Placer.ai is the most advanced foot traffic analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success.
Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, finance, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities.
Why Work With Us
Placer is a remote first with a highly collaborative culture. Our product solves many use cases, from mitigating food deserts to battling blood shortages during rapid response crises, Placer data plays a critical role in supporting local communities and driving social progress in addition to providing invaluable market intelligence to our clients.
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