Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Sotheby's as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer and play a key role in shaping the future of our infrastructure and developer platform services. Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions. As a technical leader, you will contribute hands-on, shaping our architecture and technology stack. Build practical, reusable, and resilient solutions, tackling challenging problems and iterating towards effective solutions. You will be customer-focused, delivering tools that empower your peers. This role requires a passion for building and a collaborative spirit.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in engineering building platforms, infrastructure, and deployment and infrastructure tooling
• Experience with one or more programming languages including but not limited to: Go, Node.js, Python, Scala, or Java
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with build and deployment tooling (Bazel, Github Actions, Pants, Spinnaker)
• Experience with automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with relational database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Build, optimize, and maintain a platform that enables other engineers and product teams to work faster and more efficiently
• Design elegant abstractions, useable and practical tools, and robust APIs
• Work closely with engineers across our Product & Technology teams
• Communicate persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation and collaboration
• Eager to learn new technologies and open to learning from others
• Create amazing intuitive experiences that remove pain points for our users

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to microservices architecture and observability (Kubernetes, Docker, service meshes, distributed systems, tracing)
• Exposure to event streaming platforms (such as Kafka and Kinesis)