Staff Platform Engineer

Kentik

4h • Remote

About The Position

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.
What we do
Kentik is looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Infrastructure team. This team is in charge of the software stack that powers Kentik - from configuration management and orchestration, to datastores and data pipelines, developer experience and internal observability. We are an international group of collaborative, experienced developers and operations practitioners, with broad and deep knowledge of networks, systems and applications.

If you're a senior engineer looking to move to a staff+ role, this will be a great opportunity! You will get to work with the rest of engineering, as well as product management and field engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
• Strong coding skills in Go or Python(alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
• Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
• An SRE mindset and and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Temporal (or similar workflow engines) for managing workflow execution and durable execution experience
• Most our systems run on Linux bare-metal hosts managed with puppet - so any experience with that is a plus

Responsibilities

• You will work on a very broad and diverse set of problems and technologies critical to the smooth operation of Kentik, the productivity and happiness of other engineers and the growth of our Engineering organization.
• Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
• Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
• Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …)
• Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
• Mentoring of junior team members
• Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
• Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team

Benefits

• 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
• Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
• Paid family & medical leave
• Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement account
• Home office reimbursement
• Stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees