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What's cool about this job?
Have you ever wondered how a small team manages the infrastructure needed to host thousands of websites? Our software engineers build systems that automate services at scale. With technologies like custom Kubernetes controllers and cloud functions, we are able to automate the deployment, enhancement, and maintenance of our Kubernetes platform. The team is continuously looking for ways to make our services more scalable, reliable, and resilient; Learning from past decisions and striving to get better every day.
The day to day
1. Building automated, scalable services and systems to power our growing infrastructure
2. Collaborating with an agile team that is passionate about new technologies and delivering high quality and timely code
3. Working with monitoring and alerting systems to aid engineering and support efforts
4. Constantly look for opportunities to automate and optimize
5. Work with Kubernetes solutions across various cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, GCP
6. Produce quality, testable and maintainable systems with fast feedback loops
7. Build and enhance infrastructure for serving WordPress on thousands of servers
8. Be customer inspired and work closely with business partners to incrementally deliver positive outcomes through technology
9. Develop CI/CD pipelines for pushing code into production
Your expertise and passion
10. 2+ years software engineering experience
11. Has worked on an agile team and is passionate about SRE principles
12. Proficient in Python or Go programming
13. Expertise working with Kubernetes and containerization
14. Experience working with Kubernetes orchestration on hosted cloud service like AWS, GCP or Azure
15. Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
16. Understanding of the common WordPress technology stack is desirable: Linux, Varnish, Apache/Nginx, MySQL, and PHP
17. Has experience (or interest) in: configuration management systems, monitoring systems and computer network technologies
18. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or Equivalent Experience
Perks and Benefits:
19. Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
20. Health Benefits (100% Paid Employee Medical, Dental, and Vision)
21. Pension Scheme with a match
22. Life Insurance and Income Protection (100% Paid)
23. Supplemental Maternity & Paternity Pay
24. Employee Assistance Program
25. Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
26. One-time €495 Home Office Stipend
27. Company Wellness Days
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