Software Engineer, Compute

Persona

21h•Remote

About The Position

As a member of our Infrastructure team at Persona, you will be responsible for building, operating, and monitoring the foundational components upon which our services are built. You will help empower our engineering organization to deliver product features to our customers rapidly, with high scalability, excellent resilience, and cost-effectiveness. Our infrastructure team operates remotely in the United States (with teammates in each time zone!), but commits to visiting our San Francisco HQ once a quarter to work together in person.

Requirements

BA/BS in computer science, software engineering or equivalent experience
2+ years of work experience as an infrastructure engineer working with cloud-based infrastructure, online data stores and infrastructure-as-code pipelines
Experience in cloud-based infrastructure, familiarity with modern networking concepts and experience managing infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code practices
Experience managing and scaling containerized software deployment systems such as Kubernetes
Experience in Software development in one or more of the general-purpose programming languages: Ruby, Go, Python, Java, etc
Experience in working in high-energy small startup environments
Knowledge of and expertise in software engineering best practices for software development life cycle, including requirements gathering, design, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Ability to communicate effectively with users, technical teams, and management
Strong problem-solving skills
Ability to thrive in a fully remote infrastructure engineering team environment

Responsibilities

Embrace and champion engineering best practices within the product engineering teams
Work closely with product teams to plan and build scalable, resilient and cost-effective infrastructure systems that meet launch goals, reach new markets and scale with product demand
Partner with fellow engineering teams to deliver on complex initiatives together
Develop simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
Work in a solution stack that extends all the way from complex back-end data through web services to highly usable web-based user interfaces
Directly shape system design, development methodologies, and implementation technologies