Staff Systems Engineer

August 31

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EasyPost is a Shipping API that solves complex logistics problems for eCommerce businesses.

postage • shipping • API • logistics

51 - 200

💰 $25M Series B on 2021-09

Description

• Design, implement, and manage complex infrastructure and application services that ensure reliability, scalability, and performance. • Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers. • Implement automated solutions for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment using industry-leading tools and best practices. • Utilize Python programming skills to develop and maintain customized tools and scripts for monitoring, logging, and workflow automation. • Drive opportunities for shifting from proprietary to industry standard tools. • Design patterns for self-service consumption of infrastructure by Engineering. • Implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes to ensure the reliability and availability of our systems and services. • Mentor the team on change management and incident response. • Conduct post mortems and implement improvements to prevent recurrence. • Optimize service performance through capacity planning, resource utilization analysis, and infrastructure tuning. • Work with colleagues to ensure the integrity, availability, and security of our infrastructure and services, both on-prem and in the Cloud. • Stay current on industry regulations and standards, ensuring compliance with data protection and privacy laws. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive alignment on best practices and standards for infrastructure and operations. • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure and service configurations, processes, and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field • 12+ years of related experience, master’s degree and 8+ years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience. • Strong proficiency in coding and scripting languages, with a focus on Python. • Deep understanding of DevOps & SRE principles, practices, and methodologies. • Proven experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP (IBM a plus). • Proficiency in IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation. • Proficiency with automation tools like Ansible and Puppet. • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack. • Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes. • Experience with host-based traffic management services (haproxy, nginx). • Experience with event streaming platforms such as kafka. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment. • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.