The Role
Join Archive in our mission to change consumer shopping behavior for the better. If you think humans buy too much stuff and throw too much away, then this problem is for you. As the leading technology platform for branded resale, we now power circular businesses for 50+ brands globally including Lululemon, The North Face and New Balance.
We are growing our team of highly motivated, forward-thinking individuals to help build the most delightful user experience for shopping used items, and the software to help brands make this a significant part of their business. If this mission speaks to you, come join us as we grow our share of the booming second hand market—projected to grow 3X faster than the overall global apparel market and to hit $350 Billion globally by 2028.
As our dedicated Infrastructure Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that powers the Archive platform. You will partner with our CTO, director of engineering and staff engineers to set and execute on a strategy that ensures our systems are highly stable, resilient, and will scale to meet the needs of our rapidly growing business. By joining at this early stage, you’ll be expected to drive foundational choices about the technology we use and shape the long-term vision for our approach to reliability, security, and developer productivity at Archive.
We currently run primarily on AWS and Vercel, store our data in Postgres, and manage eventing and workflows in Temporal. We use Datadog to monitor our systems, GitHub to manage our code, and Linear to manage our work. We’re excited and open about novel technology solutions that support our platform and our developer productivity.
Your Experience. You have…
- Built large scale systems from scratch on a modern, major cloud provider
- Led infrastructure efforts at an early stage startup in a similar role
- Balanced principled & pragmatic in your approach to infrastructure
- Achieved near-term deliverables while maintaining focus on the long-term vision
- Enabled other engineers to be more efficient and productive in their work
- Worked as an Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, and/or Site Reliability Engineer
- Worked with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
- Setup observability, monitoring, and alerting services to ensure system health by using tools such as Datadog Prometheus, Incident.io, ec.
- Built and maintained CI / CD infrastructure and pipelines
- Coded in Python, Go, Java, Typescript or similar
- Managed on-call and incident response SOPs
The Stack. We use…
- Frontend: Next.js + React + Redux + Apollo Client (Typescript), Firebase Auth
- Backend: NodeJS (Typescript), Hasura GraphQL Engine, Python
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Vercel
Compensation varies based on a variety of factors which include (but aren’t limited to) role level, skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, certain roles are eligible for equity as well, and all employees are eligible for a full benefits package including employee and dependent healthcare and 401(k) enrollment. Our team of over 50 employees is currently remote-first, with an office in NYC and optional in-person work for those located in the area. We have company offsites twice a year to bring the full team together in person, and occasional travel is expected as part of the job.
Archive is a Series B company backed by lauded investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Energize Capital, and Bain Capital Ventures. We prize an inclusive and transparent culture, and remain true to our values in everything we do. We were honored as Fast Company’s #2 Most Innovative Company in Retail in 2024, and continue to challenge ourselves to change consumer shopping behavior for the better.
We consider applicants of all backgrounds. If you are excited about what we’re building but don't meet some of the criteria above, please don’t let that discourage you from applying. Please note, we are unable to accept applications from candidates outside of the US at this time.
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The Company
What We Do
Archive is building an ‘operating system for resale’ that delivers both a customized, high-end online secondhand marketplace site and the underlying infrastructure and operations to plug into all of the other facets of a brand’s global resale strategy.
