Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Octane®, a company revolutionizing recreational purchases with a seamless digital buying experience, as a Staff Engineer. You will build SaaS solutions for dealerships and lending, utilizing your expertise in cloud technologies and microservices. This role requires extensive experience in software development, cloud solutions, and specific programming languages. You will be responsible for gathering requirements, designing, developing, and testing these solutions, ensuring high availability, performance, and security. Octane offers a comprehensive benefits package including robust healthcare, generous parental leave, and educational assistance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Engineering
• 10+ years of Software Development experience
• 6+ years of experience managing a live Cloud Solution in Production and with managing cloud resources hosted on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 3+ years of experience with Python, React, and Typescript
• Familiarity with at least two public cloud platforms
• Hands-on experience with cloud monitoring, logging, and alerting tools
• Solid communication skills

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements, define specifications including personae and use-cases, design, develop, test and build test automation, monitoring, and alerting for the resulting microservices-based SaaS solutions
• Architect and optimize cloud solutions for high availability, performance, reliability, auto-scaling, and security. Maintain disaster recovery and continuity plans for all cloud services
• Apply a strong understanding of cloud security principles and practices, including IAM, encryption, and network security to solution design. Ensure systems are compliant with industry standards and security regulations
• Perform cloud cost optimization and recommend best practices for cloud resource management
• Coach and support other engineers, within the immediate team and the larger organization
• Stay up to date on the latest cloud technologies and best practices, and drive the adoption of those best practices org-wide
• Be part of our on-call rotation and DevOps culture, to ensure the availability of our SaaS solutions

Benefits

• Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Generous Parental Leave
• Up to 5 weeks time off (self-managed)
• Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
• Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Short Term / Long Term Disability
• Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc
• Wellhub (Gympass) Wellness Benefit
• Powersports Safety Benefit