Access Genie is hiring a
Staff Platform Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Platform Engineer at an early-stage startup focused on automating Asset Management (ITAM) for B2B clients. The role requires 10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure management, proficiency in AWS, Terraform or Pulumi, Kubernetes, AWS EKS/ECS or AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Chef or Ansible, monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog, shell script, Git, and strong communication skills. The team is remote-first, geographically distributed, and offers a 100% remote work environment, flexible schedules, unlimited PTO, opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, professional growth and development opportunities, and collaborative, innovative, and supportive work culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud and infrastructure management
• Proficiency in AWS
• Terraform or Pulumi
• Kubernetes, AWS EKS/ECS or AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Chef or Ansible
• Monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or Datadog
• Shell script
• Git
• Strong communication skills

Responsibilities

• Consistently write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers and accounts for edge cases and errors
• Understand your team's testing approach and use quality metrics to identify gaps. Work with your team to recommend solutions that are in accordance with accepted testing frameworks and the testing pyramid
• Architect applications using well-accepted design patterns to allow for iterative, autonomous development and future scaling. Anticipate future use cases and make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
• Proficient at using systematic debugging to diagnose all issues within the scope of their domain
• Review epics and projects critically and ensure they’re appropriately broken down, prioritized, and well-understood by the team
• Is able to communicate effectively with a diverse team. Foster a culture of clear, concise, effective, audience-oriented communication on their team, ensuring teammates actively listen to others and are understood. Actively demonstrate these behaviors
• Foster a culture of documentation and knowledge sharing within your team and actively demonstrate these behaviors
• Consistently help your teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks. Give or share credit where due
• Mentor your teammates in an open, respectful, flexible, and empathetic manner. Seek out mentoring opportunities specifically to create team redundancy and backfill ability. Mentor members of other teams as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Command of CI/CD best practices
• Familiarity with Identity Providers, Active Directory, and LDAP
• Enhanced skills with other programming languages like C++, Rust, or Go
• Understanding of network connectivity, traffic encryption, authentication protocols, proxy, firewall, VPN, and SSH tunnels

Benefits

• 100% remote work environment
• Flexible schedules
• Unlimited PTO (vacation, time to recharge, US or local holidays)
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies while contributing to impactful projects
• Collaborative, innovative, and supportive work culture
• Chance to lead and mentor a team of talented engineers
• Professional growth and development opportunities