Brilliant.org · 3 days ago

Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$170K/yr - $215K/yr

7+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Build systems that are easy to debug if someone is paged at 2am (and fail gracefully enough that they almost never page overnight anyway)

Maintain active lines of communication with your colleagues: keep track of their needs and concerns and make it clear when you've made a change to solve them

Join our on-call rotation and benefit first-hand from the improvements you make to our alerting and monitoring tools

Contribute to a culture of excellence within the Platform pod. Set high standards for candor and mutual accountability.

Strike a careful balance between velocity and quality

Define and advocate for initiatives that will improve engineering velocity and quality of life.

Bring new features from conception to completion, contributing code across our entire stack

Exercise a high degree of autonomy and technical authority on a team that trusts you to do what's right for our users but is there to support you when you need it

Frequently ask: How does this impact our learners?

Qualification

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DevOps systemsAWSKubernetesDockerTerraformGithub ActionsMonorepo toolingProgramming languagesTechnical problem solving

Required

You have at least 7 years of professional experience in technical roles, and at least 5 of them configuring and maintaining modern DevOps systems and tools.

You got into programming because you're motivated by solving users' problems.

You're capable of working in whatever part of the stack is needed to reduce friction for your colleagues, and you're most energized when enabling product engineering teams to move faster.

You enjoy solving technical challenges in a way simple enough for an intern to understand and build upon. You avoid introducing complex or 'clever' solutions. You write code for humans, not for computers.

You're excited to collaborate closely with talented engineers, but also don't mind driving a project forward independently. You enjoy solving problems as a team and sharing knowledge.

You have deep experience with a few languages and frameworks, and you know what you do and do not like about them. You believe in using the right tool for the job — even when it’s an unfamiliar one, and especially when it's a boring one. You stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and patterns, recognizing the differences between a game-changer and a passing fad.

You're excited to join a small team focused on our developer tooling and infrastructure.

You have experience helping engineering organizations modernize their developer tooling to ship quickly with confidence.

You're very familiar with AWS (especially EKS and the relevant ecosystem), Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform, as well as Github Actions and monorepo tooling.

You have a favorite developer tool and can articulate your perspective on what makes using it delightful. You know that internal tools are products just as much as external ones.