Job Description:
This is a hands-on role, with the majority of your time dedicated to individual contribution.
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Autonomy: you will be part of driving the technical vision for Shuttle, balancing current concerns with future opportunities and directions. You will be involved in platform decisions and have a direct and material influence on the company.
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Scalability and Performance: Scale the Shuttle platform to hundreds of thousands of users ensuring a high level of operability and observability.
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Code Quality: Uphold code best practices, maintainability, and documentation.
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Customer Success: play a role in delivering successful outcomes for customers.
Must Haves:
- 3+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, writing maintainable application code for scalable services on AWS
- Experience as a senior member of a startup/scale-up team.
- Ability to communicate and coordinate across both technical and non-technical teams.
- Expertise in how to build and operate highly available, scalable, cost-effective and secure systems (5+ yr). We want Shuttle to be dependable and serve as the rock on top of which our customers build their products bearing in mind a cloud platform is the foundation of a technology stack.
- Experience in cloud-native architecture as well as a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructural primitives (5+ yr).
- Experience diagnosing and root-causing issues with distributed web services
- Experience monitoring and maintaining applications in production, applying SRE & CI/CD best practices
- Experience with AWS (e.g ECS, Fargate, EC2, RDS, Networking, CloudWatch, S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda) (2+ yr)
- Experience with Infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform) and continuous deployment to production using CI/CD best practices
- Able to pick up new technologies/skills and has a growth mindset with recent evidence.
Bonus points:
- Experience with front-end development (e.g React, Typescript)
- Experience using the Rust programming language, either professionally or on hobby projects
- Experience building or operating a platform as a service