Senior Platform / Infra Engineer

Skylink•New York City, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

SkyLink is building the corporate travel chatbot that allows travelers and arrangers to book and manage travel in enterprise chat channels, Slack & Teams, as if they're speaking to a corporate travel agent. Leveraging the latest in LLMs and generative AI, SkyLink’s workflows can handle simple or complex travel itineraries and changes using natural language. We serve enterprises and Travel Management Companies to save millions in excess corporate travel costs, increase online booking throughput, and delight users who have been stuck with decade old booking tools. We are backed by Y Combinator, Menlo Ventures, Human Capital, and Fortune 50 CEOs. Our board of advisors includes former CEOs of Global Travel companies. We’re looking for a senior platform engineer to help us build and maintain the best-in-class AI travel management platform. An ideal candidate has at least 5 years of software experience building infrastructure for highly scalable technical systems, working in cloud environments, keeping systems up, and working in collaborative environments.

Requirements

At least 5 years of software experience building infrastructure for highly scalable technical systems
Working in cloud environments
Keeping systems up
Working in collaborative environments
Built scalable systems, observability, monitoring, and alerting
Strong security, relational database, and software design skills
Can manage infrastructure across dev, staging, and production environments
Wants to set, maintain, and adhere to great software engineering standards (comments, testing, documentation, high quality review)
Is just as excited to code and build as they are to architect and design software
Wants to deeply understand technical domains and work on large-scale challenges
Has experience with or interest in AI and large language models
Python
Django
Celery
Redis
Postgres
React
Typescript
AWS
Docker

Nice To Haves

Is scrappy, knows how to ship, and values progress over perfection
Wants ownership and autonomy in a role that will supercharge your growth both professionally and personally

Responsibilities

Build observability, monitoring, and reliability into a globally expanding software with multiple dependencies
Manage and upgrade AWS infrastructure to support a user base growing at 100% month over month
Build concurrent software to delight our users
Design and implement database models that scale across our various customers and their systems
Reduce our deployment time from 20 minutes to under a minute