Platform Engineer

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June 4

🗽 New York – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Knock

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API • SaaS • Enterprise

Knock is a powerful and flexible notifications infrastructure platform designed to help developers integrate and manage notifications in their applications. Built for scalability, Knock provides APIs to engage users, facilitate cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences without the need for custom infrastructure. The platform offers comprehensive SDKs, intuitive documentation, and a unified API for integrating various notification channels including email, push, SMS, and Slack. Knock is designed to save engineering teams time and effort by handling complex notification logic, allowing developers to focus on their core products. It is SOC2 Type 2 certified and compliant with GDPR and HIPAA, ensuring high security standards for customer data. Knock's infrastructure supports high volume notifications ensuring reliability and performance for enterprise-scale businesses. Whether it’s in-app notifications or cross-channel systems, Knock provides the tools necessary for a seamless notification experience.

2 - 10 employees

🔌 API

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

•Knock is on a mission to help products communicate with their users in a more thoughtful way. •Building product notifications in-house takes months, often leading to poor user experiences. •We believe that—when done right—product notifications help users find value in the products they use every day. •That’s why we built Knock. •We're a remote-first (with a NYC base) Series A startup of 25 employees that believe in the power of great software. •We're APIs all the way down at Knock—Stripe for payments, Algolia for search, WorkOS for SSO. •We’re looking for a software engineer to join our small but growing platform team. •Platform engineering at Knock is the foundation for everything else we do. •The product is the platform. •The platform team is a specialized engineering team at Knock that designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure and services needed in order to run our product. •They are responsible for the availability and reliability of our service, from API to notification engine execution.

🎯 Requirements

•We’re looking for a senior engineer (5+ years of experience) •While experience with our stack is not required, you should be very comfortable with multiple levels of the modern backend stack. For example, you might have experience with GCP or AWS, a modern language, container orchestration, and a tool such as Chef or Ansible. We work primarily with Elixir, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AWS. •We’d love to see expertise in an area that complements our team’s skillset, be it databases, event-driven architectures, security, dev tooling, etc. •The ideal candidate will have experience building and operating large-scale production systems at a high-growth startup. •Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must. The team is internationally distributed and relies heavily on asynchronous communication.