About The Position
Dandy is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join our rapidly scaling technology organization. As a member of Dandy's Platform Engineering team, you will play a key role in the success of our team and company. You'll design and build scalable infrastructure and systems to support our rapidly growing product engineering function. Our stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, React/Redux, GraphQL, Postgresql, GCP, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Chronosphere, Temporal
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high-growth startup environment
- An expert in distributed systems and scaling backend services
- An expert in Public Cloud Infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes
- Experience with complex CI/CD pipelines for poly-artifact monorepos
- Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Experience designing the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment
- Experience in identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities within a cloud environment
- Experience with building observability platforms (i.e., metrics, logging and tracing)
- A collaborative, pragmatic, and growth-oriented mindset. We are a small but mighty team, and everyone must be aligned on our goals.
- The ability to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
- Self-motivated, self-managing and takes ownership, with excellent organizational skills.
Nice To Haves
- TypeScript
- PubSub
- GraphQL
- Postgresql Administration (operations)
- Buildkite
Responsibilities
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
- Collaborate with stakeholders within the tech org to influence overall objectives and long-term goals of your team.
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
- Reinvent an analog experience and disrupt a legacy industry through novel and scalable system design.
- Collaborate with Product Engineers and other stakeholders within Engineering, Product and Data to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
- Advocate for improvements to infrastructure quality, security, and performance.
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
Benefits
- For full-time positions, Dandy offers a wide range of best-in-class, comprehensive, and inclusive benefits tailored to each country where we operate.
- Our local benefits packages typically include healthcare, dental, mental health support, parental planning resources, retirement savings options, and generous paid time off—ensuring our team members are supported no matter where they live and work.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
