Staff Platform Engineer

🕒 September 3

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $214k - $309k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🏗️ Platform Engineer

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

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Prefect is a platform that provides modern workflow orchestration for data and machine learning engineers. It allows users to easily and efficiently orchestrate any Python workflow using dynamic, right-sized infrastructure. Prefect focuses on orchestration and observability of code, providing features like scheduling, automatic retries, visibility into workflows, and the ability to configure execution environments. The platform supports pure Python code, allowing the flexibility to write code without boilerplate or strict Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), and aims to offer prompt recovery from failures with custom retry behaviors and caching. It offers both cloud and open source solutions, assisting developers in building and deploying data pipelines with ease and full visibility.

📋 Description

• Establish strategies for maintaining a high quality of service, including identifying service-level indicators and defining error budgets • Apply strong technical judgment to ambiguous problems and make tradeoffs visible • Write maintainable code, build for reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and improve owned systems over time • Identify opportunities to improve customer and internal user experience through performance engineering, observability adoption, and automation improvements • Raise the team's technical bar through design feedback, code review, mentoring, and clear written communication • Use AI-powered development tools in planning, implementation, review, testing, and iteration • Report to Zach Angell, Director of Engineering for Prefect Cloud

🎯 Requirements

• Experience operating and optimizing large-scale distributed systems in production, including observability and self-healing • Expertise managing production services in cloud environments such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP • Experience with monitoring tools such as DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry • Experience operating production systems in a high-growth startup environment • Familiarity with declarative techniques for managing production infrastructure safely with modern Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Kubernetes and Terraform

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote-first team with flexible-first culture • Equity Stock Options • 401(k) with 5% company match, vesting immediately • Unlimited PTO • Medical, Dental and Vision insurance • Generous Parental Leave • Life Insurance and Disability benefits • USD 800/month remote work stipend

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