Kentik · 5 hours ago
Staff Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$165K/yr - $200K/yr
8+ years expKentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams, seeking an experienced software engineer to join their Infrastructure team. The role involves building infrastructure components, contributing to deployment tooling, improving service reliability, and mentoring junior team members.
Cloud Data ServicesInformation TechnologyNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs
Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components
Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …)
Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education
Mentoring of junior team members
Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure
Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team
Qualification
Required
8+ years of relevant experience
Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
Strong coding skills in Go or Python (alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
An SRE mindset and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems
Preferred
Familiarity with Temporal (or similar workflow engines) for managing workflow execution and durable execution experience
Experience with Linux bare-metal hosts managed with puppet
Benefits
100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
Paid family & medical leave
Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
401(k) retirement account
Home office reimbursement
Stock options
Company
Kentik
Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$101.7MKey Investors
Third Point VenturesVistara GrowthAugust Capital
2021-10-07Series C· $40M
2020-05-27Series Unknown· $23.5M
2016-08-04Series B· $23M
Leadership Team
Avi Freedman
Co-Founder and CEO
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Ian Pye
Co-Founder
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