Embark on a groundbreaking role where you'll redefine customer experience with our internal development platform and tooling. As a Platform Engineer, you'll empower software engineers to effortlessly build, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud applications with default security, reliability, and scalability. Your expertise will help design, build, and support our platform engineering products. You’ll thrive on operational excellence and reducing toil. Beyond that, you'll serve as a platform ambassador, collaborating across engineering teams to optimize usage and identify areas for continuous improvement. Join us in this dynamic position, where you will not just meet the status quo – you will set the bar higher and redefine it.
What you’ll do
- Actively contribute to defining, designing, building, and operating our internal developer platform and tools with a focus on enabling other engineering teams to focus on feature work in their products
- Serve as a leader and mentor on cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, monitoring and alerting, and other operational excellence areas
- Ensure the products we build exceed our customer’s expectations by:
- 1. Actively participate in on-call rotation for incident response during working hours for the platform and tools.
- 2. Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
- 3. Use metrics/data to improve our products continuously.
- 4. Ensure we have the right SLIs defined and measured, and continuously ensure we meet or exceed our SLOs.
- 5. Identify and implement improvements in the platform architecture and/or tools to reduce toil and/or improve resilience and scalability.
- 6. Use solid engineering practices to build long-term solutions to prevent issues from repeating
- Utilize chaos engineering practices to stress and validate that the right monitoring, resilience, and HA/DR commitments are being met
What you’ll need
- 2+ years writing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure as code -preferably in Terraform - and using standard SDLC methodologies for building, testing, deploying, and supporting cloud infrastructure (preferably in AWS).
- 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, etc. (GitHub, GitHub Actions/Workflows preferred).
- 2+ years experience writing automation and tools using various scripting or programming languages.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE
- 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS)
- Strong background and passion for building secure solutions.
- Working knowledge of defining and managing SLIs and SLOs and methods for using error budgets to ensure SLOs are met.
- Strong knowledge of the English language and clear and crisp communication - both verbal and written.
- Solid emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate with others, especially under pressure.
Preferred Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering or related field or relevant work experience.
- Production experience building, running, and operating cloud-native applications using Docker and one or more programming languages (NodeJS, PHP, or Go preferred).
- Experience using tools such as Flux and Helm.
- Previous experience building and operating an internal developer platform and tools.
- Broad working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, MKS, RDS, and S3.
- Experience with observability tools, preferably Datadog.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience and qualification.
- Gratuity benefit.
- Hybrid Office. (3 days remote,2 days physical)
- Medical Insurance.
- Field Nation LLC Reward.
- Festival Bonus.
- Gym Membership.
- Career Development Budget.
- LinkedIn Learning.
- Lunch - Fully Subsidized.
- Sound work-life balance - Regular working hours: 8 hours/day, 5 days a week.
- Friendly work environment.
- Flexible leave/vacation policy.
- A great learning opportunity.
- The opportunity to work with cross-cultural teams with the US.
- Annual performance evaluation and increment.
- Employee Transportation: Drop off available.
Salary Range
- 100k-140k
Why Field Nation?
At Field Nation, we are breaking the barriers to work and enabling the gig economy. We’re a tech company that offers a web-based marketplace solution for buyers and sellers of contract services to simply connect, work, and manage their business. We look for collaborators, innovators, and problem solvers to join us in our common purpose of changing the way work gets done. We were named a Top Workplace by the Star Tribune in 2017, 2018, 2019, and a Top 150 Workplace in 2020. We look to hire extraordinary people and provide them extraordinary benefits.
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What We Do
Field Nation is the complete field service marketplace and project management solution that connects businesses and contingent workers. We enable companies to find, hire and pay service technicians when - and where - there is work to be done. Field Nation serves as a catalyst for growth and ensures successful collaborations in today’s rapidly changing world of work.
