Lead Systems Engineer
About The Position
Bandcamp is seeking a software engineer with a background in systems and infrastructure to help us manage our production systems, and in turn help independent artists around the world stay connected with their fans. You'll work on automation, tooling, monitoring, and other behind-the-scenes code, as well as the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of our infrastructure. You have a strong Linux background, experience with cloud infrastructure, proven troubleshooting skills, and a willingness to be on-call. Our responsibilities include primary incident response, infrastructure maintenance, monitoring, tooling and automation improvements, third-party integration management, cloud security, and operational support. We are also the primary developers for many core internal libraries and several back-end systems, in areas such as code deployment and media processing.
Requirements
- Server-side development experience, in Ruby or a similar language (e.g.: Python, Java)
- Experience planning, implementing, and maintaining systems engineering projects
- Strong written communication skills, including real-time written communication (e.g.: text chat)
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with building and maintaining Linux and cloud-based systems
- A desire to share your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core libraries and systems-focused software, such as our service framework, internal tooling, and automation
- Maintain our existing infrastructure technology stack, built on Linux, Ruby, MySQL, Zookeeper, HAProxy, Fastly, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Work towards modernizing our technology stack in Google Cloud
- Research new technologies and determine how they can help Bandcamp meet its goals
- Support developers in bringing their code to production, and in understanding how it works and performs once it's there
- Be part of an on-call rotation, providing primary incident response for outages
Benefits
- Inspiration, knowledge, career development, on top of our financial package.
- You’ll also be working with an international bunch of remarkable musically-infused individuals.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
