Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Swiftly's Engineering team to improve the software platform underpinning Swiftly’s products, ensuring reliability and availability of all Swiftly products.

Requirements

• Experience with one of the major cloud platforms—AWS, GCP, or Azure—and building software using cloud services
• Experience with a major software language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript)
• Experience automating and managing cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform and Ansible, with a focus on creating and managing reusable code to support scalability and consistency
• Experience building and/or managing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience building secure cloud networks (e.g., configuring Amazon VPC, subnets/routes, ALBs, security groups, etc.)
• Experience with a container orchestration framework (e.g., EKS, ECS)
• Hands-on experience with Managed API Gateways (e.g., Kong) for managing, securing, and scaling APIs
• Experience with PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB or similar time-series databases
• Strong understanding of building and managing data pipelines to ensure efficient data flow, transformation, and integration across platforms

Responsibilities

• Help foster a DevSecOps culture by building platforms that empower developers to securely build, deploy, and manage their own microservices and CI/CD pipelines
• Own and improve shared cloud infrastructure such as load balancers, container clusters, job schedulers, and databases
• Write terraform, ansible, serverless, or other scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning
• Provide visibility into operation of our systems by providing metrics, hooking up alerts, and building dashboards
• Launch tools and services that improve Swiftly’s platform security
• Be on-call for system outages

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options for every employee
• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k with Employer Match
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Home office setup reimbursement
• Monthly cell/internet reimbursement
• Monthly 'Be Well' stipend
• Flexible PTO with a required minimum
• Flexible work environment
• 16-17 paid holidays - including 4 holidays in months without US national holidays in 2024
• 8 fully paid weeks of leave for child birth/adoption