Liftoff is looking to enhance its product delivery by improving developer workflows and ensuring the reliability and efficiency of its products and features, aiming to positively impact millions of users and business revenue.
Requirements
- A strong understanding of computer architectures, system design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
- Professional experience in tackling complex programming challenges, preferably but not restricted to Golang.
- Professional experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, including: Bootstrapping Kubernetes infrastructure, Writing tooling for the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code to manage and provision resources.
- Proven experience in building monitoring solutions for modern microservice architectures.
- Knowledge of profiling and debugging distributed microservices.
- Experience with multi-cloud computing environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of Liftoff's Supply infrastructure.
- Architect, build, and maintain the reliability of large-scale, high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems serving millions of requests per second.
- Improve tooling and infrastructure to enable shipping multiple times a day, with a quantified impact on millions of users and our business revenue.
- Contribute to an “engineering excellence” culture through state-of-the-art tools, risk-driven testing, explainable systems, and code reviews.
- Become an expert in cutting-edge open-source technologies (Kubernetes, Kafka, HAProxy, ArgoCD, etc.) that maximize software development velocity.
- Share L1 on-call rotation with other members of the Production Engineering team for systems owned and managed by the team.
- Ensure minimal Day-2 operations by focusing on automation, efficient management, and proactive issue resolution.
Other
- A strong commitment to quality and perfection, with the ability to balance these values with the need to ship products on time.
- Excellent team communication and collaboration skills.
- Passionate about supporting colleagues and committed to the team’s success.
- Fluent in English, with strong proficiency in both written and spoken communication.
- Previous experience in leading a team.
