Remote Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join The Motley Fool as a senior level Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain scalable systems and infrastructure. As a key member of the CloudOps team, you'll play a crucial role in building and managing our AWS cloud infrastructure and supporting services.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering within a product-focused company
• Startup Experience. If you’ve been part of a technology startup, you understand the challenges that come with the growth and maturity of a platform
• Software Frameworks: Hands-on experience with NextJS and Django
• Developer Experience: Passionate about enhancing the local developer experience and mentoring team members
• Automation & Observability: Experienced in automating code lifecycle management from development to production and using observability tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to optimize performance across environments
• IaC Skills: Advanced skills in Terraform (IaC) for setting up reproducible and scalable environments, designing infrastructure for AWS-hosted applications, event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions

Responsibilities

• 40% of your time will be dedicated to modernizing and enhancing every facet of our platform, from CDN to Kubernetes and everything in between
• 30% will involve collaborating with our development teams to troubleshoot issues and boost performance for our NextJS and Django based applications
• 20% will focus on accelerating our CI/CD processes and reducing time-to-market for our stakeholders
• 10% will be spent on optimizing costs

Benefits

• Flexible, remote work environment (*see our open states above)
• No “vacation policy” (not to be confused with a “No vacation” policy)
• Generous fully-paid parental leave
• $1,000 annually to invest in stocks of your choice
• Super low premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Comprehensive compensation package, including company equity