Production Engineer

Summary

Join Placer.ai, a rapidly growing tech company, as a Production Engineer to build and scale its infrastructure. You will play a key role in shaping and implementing Placer's architecture, introducing new technologies and standards, and enhancing the release pipeline. This involves managing production and development environments, collaborating with development teams, and developing effective tooling for reliability. You will measure and improve system efficiency and scalability, taking ownership of tasks from design to deployment. Passion for data is essential. If you thrive in challenging environments, Placer.ai is the place for you.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a similar position
• Experience working with public cloud
• 3+ years of production experience with Kubernetes including using open source solutions from the eco-system
• 2+ years of experience with "Infrastructure as a code" tools such as Terraform, Pulumi or similar
• 2+ years of experience managing Databases and Queues such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar
• Skills with at least one of general purpose languages such as Golang, Python, Ruby or Java
• Strong skills with a variety of monitoring and alerting tools
• Sense of humor, all around team player, fast self-learning individual, problem solver

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement tools to help our company succeed
• Taking care of our CI/CD tools
• Manage our production and multiple development environments
• Collaborate with development teams to improve our system infrastructure and stability
• Develop effective tooling, dashboards, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks
• Measure, analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Carry tasks end-to-end, from design to deployment, and take full ownership

Preferred Qualifications

• CKA certification or similar
• Strong Kubernetes skills, experience with modern CNIs, volume plugins, security, operators, service meshes, ingresses and K8s ecosystem
• Extensive knowledge of RabbitMQ
• Experience working with GCP

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits