Pumpkin is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Software Engineer - Engineering Platforms at Pumpkin, a pet care company. The role involves developing software solutions to improve the lives of pets, their owners, and veterinarians. The position is remote or hybrid (for NYC area) with some travel required.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on platform-, deployment-, or observability- centered engineering
• Ability to work with codebases in Bash, Python, and Javascript
• Excellent debugging skills in a Linux environment
• Experience managing and deploying onto cloud-based production Kubernetes or similar orchestration platforms
• The ability to break down complex problems into smaller pieces, provide options, talk through trade-offs and drive the effort to solve the problem
• Experience working with monitoring platforms like Sentry and Grafana
• Experience with hosting & optimizing MySql and/or PostgresQL

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable and resilient systems that can keep up with company growth & new products
• Harden the platform against security threats and resource contention issues
• Improve our Gitlab systems and deployment processes
• Work with app teams to understand their potential challenges and help them choose the best way to architect their systems
• Help respond and prevent incidents impacting core platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with security standards and practices and/or regulated industry
• Experience working with Gitlab pipelines
• Understanding of hosting pages & systems in Cloudflare
• Worked in both a platform engineering team/ engineering productivity team and a full-stack development team in the past
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure
• Familiarity with low-level protocols and concepts (HTTP, TLS, load balancers and basic networking.)

Benefits

• The compensation for this position ranges from $100,000- $140,000 (annually)
• Compensation may vary outside the listed range, based on a number of factors including but not limited to location, qualifications, performance, skills, and experience
• Total compensation packages, depending on the position, may also include incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other short or long-term incentives