About the Job:
As a Platform Engineer, you will help us extend and scale LaunchDarkly's engineering and product infrastructure. You will build platform tools and leverage innovative cloud technology to bring joy to your end users - LaunchDarkly developers. You are a builder that's passionate about multiplying our engineering force through automation, cloud technologies, and productivity tools, which enhance the developer experience.
LaunchDarkly is a rapidly growing software company with a strong mission and vision carried out by a talented and diverse team of employees. Our goal is to help teams build better software, faster. You'll join a small team from companies like Atlassian, Intercom, and Twitter, and you'll have an immediate impact with our product and customers.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement in their development lifecycle, including Infrastructure as Code (IaC) building blocks for consistent provisioning.
- Seek out and identify opportunities in the tooling, pipelines, and feedback mechanisms to improve developer productivity.
- Design, build, and implement automated tools for scaffolding a new service including dependent infrastructure, code repositories, CI/CD workflows, and observability.
- Maintain solid connection through high engagement with other product delivery engineers to anticipate changes around the corner and contribute your ideas to developing proactive solutions.
- Use your infrastructure and systems engineering skills to contribute code, perform code reviews, and create technical designs that improve the efficiency and reliability of our delivery systems.
- Troubleshoot and resolve delivery pipeline issues to ensure a reliable release process.
- Keep up-to-date with platform engineering industry trends and emerging technologies.
Qualifications:
- Have previously worked in a SRE, platform engineer, product engineer, systems engineer, or developer productivity engineer role.
- You possess excellent communication and collaboration skills. You play well on a small, tight-knit team.
- You are a self‐starter and problem solver, willing to solve hard problems and work independently when necessary. You identify potential problems and nip them in the bud before they surface.
- You are a driver of large complex technical projects involving multiple stakeholders and moving them successfully to completion.
- You have a passion for reducing toil for yourself and your colleagues, and love solving problems with scripts and automation (e.g. with Python and Bash).
- You have successfully run large-scale production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- You are familiar with running systems with a distributed service-oriented architecture. This includes operating tools and platforms such as Docker, Kubernetes, Consul, Istio, and AWS ECS.
- You have extensive experience codifying infrastructure with tools like Terraform and other configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
- You have deep experience with the full lifecycle of software delivery from local development to production and can create solutions in these areas to reduce developer friction.
- You have strong proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Spinnaker, and ArgoCD.
- You have written software in languages like Go or Python.
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