Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

March 7

Alma

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Description

• Gain a deep understanding of the software development process at Alma and how the engineering team operates • Collaborate with teammates on Platform, as well as PMs and peers from feature teams, to understand and prioritize solutions for practical problems facing Alma engineers • Design, develop and implement systems, processes, and tools to improve the experience and efficiency of the engineering team’s development process. (Developers environment, testing environment, deployment pipeline) • Work to maintain, simplify and reinvent the systems underlying the application platform, such as our job queues, caching layers, error handling, monitoring and alerting • Technologies you’ll be working with include AWS, S3, nginx, Ansible, Docker, Elasticsearch, Datadog, Prometheus, Django, Celery, Redis, SQL, and Redshift • Work towards maintaining and improving site reliability as our application scales • Continually research current and emerging technologies, proposing changes where most impactful • Provide high-quality documentation and training to set engineers up for success • Ensure applications and services meet Alma's standards for software, including performance, scalability, and security

Requirements

• You have 3-5 years of experience working with web technologies, frameworks, and AWS related technologies • You have experience with web technologies. We are language agnostic in our interviews but require experience with one or more common web frameworks • You have experience maintaining, simplifying, and reinventing the systems underlying the applications platform, such as job queues, caching layers, error handling, monitoring, and alerting • You have worked with scaling challenges in previous roles and have implemented best practices around scaling • You have a strong testing philosophy, with abundant experience in writing different types of tests • You’re a systems thinker, concerned not only with individual component parts but with how those parts work together holistically • You’re pragmatic, recognizing that, while there are multiple approaches to solving a problem, it is important to weigh practicality over theory when decision-making • You are a strong communicator with engineers as well as non-technical stakeholders • You have a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

Benefits

• We’re a remote-first company • Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans • 401K plan (Roth and traditional) • Monthly therapy and wellness stipends • Monthly co-working space membership stipend • Monthly work-from-home stipend • Financial wellness benefits through Northstar • Pet discount program through United Pet Care • Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub • EAP access through Cigna • One-time home office stipend to set up your home office • Comprehensive parental leave plans • 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day • Flexible PTO