Principal Build Infrastructure Engineer Remote (US)

At Stitch Fix, our goal is to help our customers look great and feel great about themselves by revolutionizing how people shop. In a time-starved world where shopping often feels overwhelming, our business connects customers to clothes they love. Whether it’s helping someone dress for success at a new job or taking the stress out of packing for a family vacation, we fix clients’ closets – and they love us for it!

We’ve built unique, innovative software for merchandising, warehouse and inventory management, remote styling, and logistics. We leverage vast amounts of client data to make decisions throughout the company. All of this results in a simple, powerful offering to our clients and a very successful business. We believe we are only scratching the surface of our opportunity, and we’re looking for incredible people to contribute!

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Build Infrastructure team designs, implements, and maintains all code and tooling in support of the CI process used by all developers at Stitch Fix.  We believe that reducing cycle time and creating fast feedback loops promotes high code quality, safer deployments, and developer innovation and happiness. We use modern platform practices like Infrastructure-as-Code, security scanning and linting, versioning and tagging, and artifact repository management.  We also drive the adoption of innovative CI tooling and technologies as they emerge. The Build Infrastructure team enables a rapidly-growing engineering organization to deploy hundreds of times a day within a distributed microservices architecture. 

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Engineer on the Build Infrastructure team, you will build and improve Stitch Fix's CI pipeline, build, and test infrastructure. You'll develop tools and automation that enable internal product developers to confidently generate, test, and upload build versions to artifact repositories, and debug build and test failures easily and efficiently. You'll collaborate with a distributed team of platform engineers to design innovative solutions that standardize and streamline build, test, and artifact creation operations, increasing code quality and developer confidence.

YOU’RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE…

• You will architect, refine, and maintain the Engineering team’s build, test, and artifact generation ecosystem.
• You will build intuitive tools to increase our innovation velocity across the company.
• Your work enables 200+ deployments per day across 200+ products and services.
• You will write code to automate and simplify the operation of our build and test infrastructure.
• You will partner with our developers to evolve and scale the build infrastructure platform.

WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE…

• You have deep experience in growing, maintaining, and leading others in support of a technical roadmap central to Software Build Management / Engineering.
• You are comfortable creating and have high value for high, mid, and low level technical documentation in support of communicating work within the team, as well as to engineering stakeholder partners.
• Providing technical leadership and coaching for a new team excites and motivates you.
• You enjoy identifying build/testing bottlenecks and implementing data-driven solutions and improvements using both CI-native and CI-non-native telemetry tools such as Datadog, New Relic, or similar.
• You are motivated by opportunities to shift solutions to the infrastructure level using tools that quickly and efficiently give build and testing feedback.
• You have a passion for simplifying and automating build and test tasks.
• You have developer empathy and want to improve developers' lives.
• You are curious, flexible, and are motivated by challenge.
• You have a track record of managing expectations and delighting your
• customers.
• You have excellent communication skills.

OUR TECHNOLOGY STACK

• AWS (CodeBuild, ECR, etc.)
• Artifactory
• Terraform
• CircleCi
• Docker 
• Ruby
• Golang
• npm

YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT STITCH FIX BECAUSE WE...

• Are a successful, vibrant, fast-growing company.
• Are a technologically and data-driven business.
• Are at the forefront of tech and fashion, redefining shopping for the next generation.
• Are passionate about our clients and live/breathe the client experience.
• Get to be creative every day.
• Have a smart, experienced, and diverse leadership team that wants to do it right & is open to new ideas.
• Believe in autonomy & taking initiative.
• Full support for remote work.
• Offer equitable and competitive compensation based on your level to help eliminate bias in salaries, as well as equity and comprehensive health benefits.
• Are serious about our commitment to life-work balance, and have generous parental leave policies.

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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