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Northbeam · 1 month ago

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$180K/yr - $210K/yr

Northbeam is building the world's most advanced marketing intelligence platform, providing top eCommerce brands a unified view of their business data. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will work with a small engineering team to create a scalable, observable, reliable platform for data ingestion, processing, and serving, while managing various infrastructure responsibilities.

Information TechnologyMachine Learning

Responsibilities

CI/CD and dev infrastructure

Security

DR policies

SSL cert management and DNS

Infrastructure as Code

Capacity planning and budgeting

Observability

Scaling plans and automation

Guidance for best use of cloud infrastructure

Improve Observability: work with engineering to iterate on alerts and dashboards, help standardize and automate monitoring practices

Automate All the Things: Pre-configured services, networking rules, access grants, the whole deal

DevEx Par Excellence: Improve and iterate on 'golden paths' to simplify the work for developers to create new services that have great CI/CD, deployment environments, secrets, routing, and beyond

Tame Noisy Alerts: Hunt down the root causes of noisy alerts and tweak configurations so we only hear from the system when it matters

Security Meets Sanity: Stay on top of patching, pen-testing, training, work to ensure the system is secure and meets the requirements of customers and auditors

Capacity Management: Regularly audit cloud spend to identify and act on savings opportunities or misallocated resources; manage long-term compute reservations and monitor utilization; propose and implement improvements

Qualification

Cloud ComputingAutomationInfrastructure as CodeObservability ToolsPythonCollaborationDocumentation SkillsSQLKubernetesGCP ExperienceProblem Solving

Required

Solid hands-on experience with cloud computing and a knack for automating infrastructure

Very comfortable developing (and debugging!) automation in Python, and bridging between software engineers' service code and problems to how they manifest in the infrastructure and metrics

Expert level at Terraform and Atlantis; you can discuss differences and nuances of TF, Puppet, Chef, CF, and others at length

Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

A track record of resolving on-call issues and staying cool under pressure

Comfortable working cross-functionally with engineering, data, product, and management teams

You can write clear, concise technical documentation that other humans can actually follow