About the Team

The Core Infrastructure Team is a newly formed team within the Algorithms Platform, whose mission is to enable excellence across the organization by taking full advantage of AWS capabilities in a uniform way to provide critical core services.  This team is responsible for evolving our AWS usage along with common services needed by the entire department, such as cluster management, configuration and secrets management, and deployments. We’re looking for engineers who are motivated to take full advantage of what cloud providers offer, but are also passionate about building other services and tools that complement cloud offerings and ensure departmental productivity.

About the Role

In this role you’ll be organizing and improving our usage of core AWS services, as well as building additional infrastructure and tools to support our work in the Algorithms department.   The team’s charter is to manage and support infrastructure and tooling that are likely to be used by all of the Algorithms organization.  The team will be responsible for developing, configuring, instrumenting, and managing change for the following within the Algo Platform team:

• Core AWS organization: VPCs, security groups, cluster provisioning
• EKS cluster management and future vision
• Base AMI and docker images
• Deployment infrastructure
• Common concerns including monitoring infrastructure and configuration management

The role is an ideal fit for engineers who enjoy a mix of coding and development along with managing infrastructure.  As an early member of our team, you’ll help us shape its role within the Algorithms organization, and enable the team to expand responsibilities and set our vision for the future.

You’re excited about this opportunity because:

Some typical projects you might work on include (but aren’t limited to!):

• Management of various compute clusters including EKS and developing the future vision for their use
• Develop tools and services for provisioning and managing AWS resources and provide common instrumentation for monitoring
• Consolidate deployment infrastructure and base image building and usage (including AMI and docker images)
• Manage common concerns for platform including monitoring infrastructure and configuration management, which can include building custom services and tools as well as leveraging 3rd party tools
• Organize and plan for core AWS resources including VPCs, security groups, and cluster provisioning
• Many of the changes we need would also benefit others in the big data community.  You’ll have the opportunity to contribute back.

We’re excited about you because:

You bring the following from background:

• 5+ years of software development and infrastructure experience with significant contributions
• 1-2 years of experience working with AWS or other cloud providers, especially with provisioning resources and change management
• Programming and development aptitude, along with a commitment to high code quality.
• Comfortable designing, building, and deploying common infrastructure such as monitoring and configuration/secrets management.
• Organizational ability to consolidate requirements from multiple sources and develop common solutions for the entire Algorithms organization.
• Strong communication to collaborate with other platform team members on common technical concerns and evangelize new ideas.
• Natural curiosity and tendency to get excited to dig in and understand how things work.

Why you'll love working at Stitch Fix...

• We are a group of bright and kind people who are motivated by challenge. You can be your authentic self here, and are empowered to encourage others to do the same!
• We are a successful, fast-growing company at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining retail for the next generation
• We are a technologically and data-driven business
• We are committed to our clients and connected through our vision of “Transforming the way people find what they love”
• We love solving problems, thinking creatively and trying new things
• We believe in autonomy & taking initiative
• We are challenged, developed and have meaningful impact
• We take what we do seriously. We don’t take ourselves seriously
• We have a smart, experienced leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas
• We offer competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
• You will be proud to say that you work for Stitch Fix and will know that the work you do brings joy to our clients every day

About Stitch Fix

At Stitch Fix, we’re about personal styling for everybody and we believe in both a service and a workplace where you can be your best, most authentic self. We’re the first fashion retailer to combine technology and data science with the human instinct of a Stylist to deliver a deeply personalized shopping experience. This novel juxtaposition attracts a highly diverse group of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. All of this results in a simple, powerful offering to our customers and a successful, growing business serving millions of men, women, and kids. We believe we are only scratching the surface on our opportunity, and we’re looking for incredible people like you to help us carry on that trend.

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