Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Bluecore's engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering and help build scalable, reliable, and performant systems. You will be hands-on, optimizing Kubernetes clusters, managing GCP infrastructure, and improving DevOps and SRE practices. Responsibilities include managing hundreds of servers and thousands of containers, managing zero-trust networks, developing and scaling the observability strategy, and building high-quality systems. You will collaborate on large projects, promote coding standards, and participate in ad hoc and incident availability rotations. Proactive identification of technology opportunities and advocacy for the platform engineering strategy are also key aspects of this role. You will evangelize Bluecore engineering internally and externally.

Requirements

• 4-7 years of software engineering experience, primarily in systems and infrastructure management
• Hands-on experience maintaining Kubernetes at scale and running various workloads on Kubernetes
• Designing and maintaining network infrastructure, including cloud-based load balancing and ingress/egress design
• Experience with metric and alerting tools, and experience with distributed tracing systems
• Capable of owning engineering and company level issues or gaps, and successfully planning and executing towards resolution, all while continuously identifying and exploring additional opportunities and proactively preventing upcoming risks
• Experience developing technical roadmaps and estimates that have pushed product and business growth over several quarters. Has a proven track record of successfully completing work that spans multiple teams and quarters, creating large impacts to business success
• Able to identify your team's dependencies on other areas and across functions, communicate effectively to remove any immediate blockers, and propose and implement process changes that strengthen and maintain efficiency
• Adept at effectively communicating with external customers about critical production issues, as well as working with internal stakeholders from Bluecore’s customer success and support teams to propose and implement immediate fixes and resolution plans

Responsibilities

• Manage hundreds of servers and thousands of containers on our Google Kubernetes Engine clusters using various automation tools
• Manage zero-trust networks using Kyverno, Cilium, and Istio
• Develop and scale our Observability strategy with OpenTelemetry, Chronosphere, and other Saas Products
• Build performant, reliable, high-quality systems at scale within one or more domains (Observability, Networking, Kubernetes, etc.). Comfort in providing significant contributions, even within domains with less expertise
• Collaborate and build large and complex projects with difficult and intertwined dependencies that push for smart automation and innovation. Promote coding standards, styles, and design principles across the organization
• Ad Hoc and incident availability as part of a greater team rotation. Ad Hoc requests are triaged to support the greater Engineering team’s needs. Incident coverage involves troubleshooting and assisting during an incident, bringing it to resolution. Ad Hoc/incident rotations are one week long on dayside hours
• Proactively identify technology opportunities for the company, and push technical ideas, proposals, and plans to the entire organization and beyond
• Provide perspective and advocate toward Platform Engineering’s technical strategy and decisions. Advise and advocate for best tools, methods, and approaches for the entire engineering organization
• Evangelize Bluecore Engineering internally and externally, including leading external initiatives to promote Bluecore Engineering in the wider community

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred - experience in designing and implementing progressive improvements within API Gateways (Gloo), Istio, and Continuity scopes
• Experience excelling within a high-growth, startup environment or building out a new team/function within a larger company preferred
• Experience with technical team mentorship, including guiding other engineers to become more effective technical leaders and providing feedback on best practices in code and design

Benefits

We are a remote first organization with the option to potentially work in our New York headquarters on occasion moving forward