Senior Cloud Engineer
About The Position
Our team is growing because our user base is growing (30% in the last year!) which means we need you! We are hiring a Staff Cloud Engineer who is passionate about development operations and maintaining a high performing cloud infrastructure platform. As the most senior Cloud Engineer on the team, we will rely on you for your deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes and networking. You will have the opportunity to solve challenging infrastructure and reliability problems, work with the latest systems, collaborate with a kind and capable team and contribute meaningfully. This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office and will require you to be in person Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Requirements
- 5+ years overall engineering experience
- 3+ years of experience working in AWS (RDS, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM, EC2, EKS, Route53)
- 3+ years of experience working with DevOps technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
- 3+ years developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with distributed system design, implementation, and capacity planning
- An excitement and ability to work in a high volume, large-scale environment.
- Clear communication and ability to collaborate cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders and teams.
- Ability to work with others to perform root cause analysis on stability and performance related events
Nice To Haves
- AI/ML experience
- SOX experience is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Design, document, and maintain cloud infrastructure platform using AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform
- Provide Engineering teams with standards and best practices on how to deploy and consume public cloud services.
- Build and implement continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) using tools such as Argo and GitHub Actions
- Manage multiple AWS cloud environments. Use cloud-based container management services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to deploy applications.
- Help develop effective monitoring and response tools to both identify and address reliability risks using Datadog, Pagerduty, Prometheus and similar systems.
- Work closely with other teams on new microservices or features/improvements of existing services.
- Drive performance tuning and automation.
- Support, maintain and document software functionality.
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Benefits
- Mission and Impact: Grindr is building the global gayborhood in your pocket. Your role will impact the lives of millions of LGBTQ+ people around the world. Through our success, we are making a world where the lives of our community are free, equal, and just.
- Family Insurance: Insurance premium coverage for health, dental, and vision for you and partial coverage for your dependents.
- Retirement Savings: Generous 401K plan with 6% match and immediate vest in the U.S.
- Compensation: Industry-competitive compensation and eligibility for company bonus and equity programs.
- Queer-Inclusive Benefits: Industry-leading gender-affirming offerings with up to 90% cost coverage, access to Included Health, monthly stipends for HRT, and more.
- Additional Benefits: Flexible vacation policy, monthly stipends for cell phone, internet, wellness, food, and commuting, breakfast/lunch provided onsite, and yearly travel & leisure stipend.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
