Nextdoor · 4 months ago
Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Cloud
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$187K/yr - $238K/yr
7+ years expNextdoor is the essential neighborhood network that connects neighbors, public agencies, and businesses around local information. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, Cloud to build and manage cloud-based architecture that supports their platform, focusing on scalable container and serverless environments.
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Responsibilities
Operationalizing a second Kubernetes cluster to ensure Nextdoor can continue to scale beyond the limits of a single Kubernetes cluster
Building automation for our developer’s workflows including applying 3rd party dependency updates automatically as well as distributing Helm chart updates
Modernizing our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by leveraging CDK and Pulumi
Optimizing our Kubernetes resource management by leveraging Spot Ocean and Karpenter
Providing self-service infrastructure-as-code systems to developers that automate the full lifecycle of managing, deploying and operating cloud services including blob/block storage, relational databases, key-value databases, caches and document search services
Developing tooling for horizontally and vertically autoscaling our developers compute workloads
Providing upstream open source patches to well known community projects like AWS Bottlerocket, the Istio Service Mesh, Keiko IAM Manager, Kyverno, Strimzi.io’s Kafka Operator and more!
Qualification
Required
7+ years experience in a DevOps or Cloud role
Solid understanding of Kubernetes (k8s)
Experience using TypeScript
Experience with infrastructure as code (CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, Terraform, Packer)
Thorough understanding of Linux and networking protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/S, eBPF)
Strong debugging and performance tuning skills using software like gdb, perf, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark, etc
Experience with performance, automation, monitoring, and capacity planning
Experience automating configuration and bootstrapping of Linux systems
Eagerness to explore and apply AI and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done
Preferred
Experience using Docker or other containerization software
Linux certifications such as Linux+, Network+, RHCSA/RHCE/RHCA or similar
Experience in a large scale compute environment with hundreds or thousands of servers
Benefits
Compensation may also vary by geography.
We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
Company
Nextdoor
Nextdoor is a private social networking platform that connects neighbors for them to exchange helpful information, goods, and services.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$723.8MKey Investors
Benchmark
2023-01-17Post Ipo Equity· $18.6M
2021-11-08Post Ipo Equity· $270M
2021-11-08IPO
Leadership Team
Nirav Tolia
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Michael Kiernan
Chief Revenue Officer
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