CARTO is hiring a
Cloud Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Cloud Engineer position at CARTO, a cloud-native location intelligence platform. The role involves working with customers and the Solution Engineering team to define cloud architectures, implementing CI/CD and cloud infrastructure for custom solutions, writing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, adhering to security best practices, developing new tools, improving self-hosted versions of the product, providing support to other teams, and performing improvements or refactoring to enhance the infrastructure. The position is open to remote work within the EU.

Requirements

• Some experience like the one mentioned in the job description
• Familiar with cloud security terms: IAM, VPC, IAP …
• Expertise with Terraform, or any other IaC tool
• Familiar with cloud providers. CARTO mainly works with GCP, but any other expertise with other cloud providers is more than welcome
• Linux knowledge (containers, systemd, signals …)
• Debugging mindset and eager to fix issues
• Experience with Kubernetes, HELM charts and Docker
• Development skills and with a good database knowledge (PostgreSQL is a plus)
• Very good communication skills, both conversation and written, as well as a good English level

Responsibilities

• Work closely with customers and the Solution Engineering team to define cloud architectures for deploying solutions
• Identify customer infrastructure needs and implement CI/CD and cloud infrastructure for custom solutions
• Write IaC (Infrastructure as Code) using Terraform
• Adhere to security best practices and implement processes according to industry standards
• Develop new tools (Python, Node.js , Go, TS, etc.) to enhance services for both internal teams and clients
• Develop HELM charts to improve our self-hosted version, making it more robust and compatible with cloud providers' Kubernetes services (GKE, AKS, EKS, etc.)
• Provide support to other teams
• Proactively perform any improvements or refactoring to enhance our infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with security methodologies and tools like DevSecOps, Pentesting, Network Security and compliance like HIPAA or PCI-DSS
• Knowledge with any of the programming languages we use: NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Go
• Experience with migration from legacy Infrastructure to “cloud native”

Benefits

• Competitive, results-based compensation
• Access to our employee stock options plan
• 24 days vacation (22 + Christmas Eve  + New Years Eve)
• 100% remote, with offices in Madrid and Seville
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible work hours in a focused but casual environment
• Education Stipend
• Flexible compensation
• English classes
• A big vision: to help the world use location-based data to make better decisions. We believe that openness and sustainability are baked into this vision, and we share it with the world
• Contribute to a platform used by top companies around the world. Your work will have a direct impact on our users and clients