Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Netlify | Torre

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

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Full-time

Legal agreement: To be defined

Compensation
USD99k - 167k/year
Non-negotiable
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Hybrid (United States)
Posted over 5 years ago

Responsibilities


• Be an advocate of excellence in availability, scalability, security, performance • Define standards and approaches that drive product performance and reliability • Solve complex problems related to infrastructure cloud services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. • Drive projects/technical initiatives and architectural/technical service improvements through to completion • Monitor and stress test systems to collect metrics for tuning and capacity planning • Apply a deep understanding of business and engineering requirements to drive the platform road map • Lead the design and definition of a Platform technical architecture and plan to achieve it • Grow our most senior engineers through mentoring • Architect and develop the network management platform that provides seamless integration of configuration capabilities for deployment and management of the CDN • Within 1 month you’ll: • Understand the complexities around our business, customer, and engineering needs and define the problem spaces and gaps • Conduct a deep dive into our tech and application stack to understand our architecture and roadmap • Have one-on-ones and pairing sessions with some of the people that you’ll be working closely with, including members of the Platform, Data, Product, Leadership and Site Reliability teams. • Begin identifying opportunities for improvement and defining a roadmap of how to solve any gaps • Learn from the team during weekly in design reviews, demos, and architectural meetings • Within 3 months, you’ll: • Have gained a robust understanding of the needs of the platform and be working with principal engineers on our cloud roadmap • Be working on network capacity planning and scaling • Defining best current practices for production readiness and release engineering • Begin driving architectural and design decisions from the point of view of scalability and reliability, including our CDN, deployment tooling, testing, database design, and multi-cloud patterns • Within 6 months, you’ll: • Be working on the migration of services between cloud providers • Working with product and infrastructure teams to design next generation products • Developing tooling to traffic patterns and anomalies in network traffic and apply traffic and firewall rules • You will design the systems and processes that our engineers use to manage and deploy their software in production • Participate in all phases of development of large projects, providing hardware, scalability, operability and performance perspectives to teams • Define system requirements and refine selected designs, balancing raw upfront cost with operability and total cost of ownership • Participate in the development and delivery of operability related features such as health monitoring, diagnostics, repair, and other self-healing automation • Have made a significant impact to our platform by architecting an extensive scalable solution to accommodate our rapidly growing user base • Play a significant role in implementing globally distributed, latency-sensitive, high throughput services