Staff Platform Engineer, Kentik
$165-200k
Network observability, security, and performance
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Network observability, security, and performance
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$165-200k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To provide clients with an infrastructure visibility solution to make their business-critical operations run seamlessly.
Role
Who you are
- Kentik is looking for an experienced software engineer to join our Infrastructure team
- If you're a senior engineer looking to move to a staff+ role, this will be a great opportunity!
- Studies have shown that some candidates tend to apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to apply if you meet most of the criteria - even if you don’t match all of the qualifications, your skills and experience could be valuable in this role!
- 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 and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems
Desirable
- Familiarity with Temporal (or similar workflow engines) for managing workflow execution and durable execution experience
- Most our systems run on Linux bare-metal hosts managed with puppet - so any experience with that is a plus
What the job involves
- This team is in charge of the software stack that powers Kentik - from configuration management and orchestration, to datastores and data pipelines, developer experience and internal observability
- We are an international group of collaborative, experienced developers and operations practitioners, with broad and deep knowledge of networks, systems and applications
- You will get to work with the rest of engineering, as well as product management and field engineers
- You will work on a very broad and diverse set of problems and technologies critical to the smooth operation of Kentik, the productivity and happiness of other engineers and the growth of our Engineering organization
- 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
Our take
The rise in internet use has resulted in an often unmanageable amount of network traffic across websites, data centers, and most recently cloud services. The resulting mass of information from this is problematic to interpret and thus difficult to use for troubleshooting and engagement insights.
Kentik provides an integrated network monitoring dashboard for enterprises that helps provide visual data illustrations and insights based on traffic. This allows administrators to identify bottlenecks in their networks, whilst providing opportunities to provide cyber protection and monitor customer experiences.
The Kentik dashboard’s approach to network management is unique due to its focus on the visualization of information. This allows insights regarding network limitations and bottlenecks to be understandable and manageable to enterprises regardless of whether staff has knowledge in networking data.
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Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$40m
SERIES C
May 2020
$23.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $101.7m
Company benefits
- Dental and vision insurance
- Parental leave
- Stock options
- Flexible paid time off
- 401k plan
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Avi Freedman
(CEO)Avi started their career as a Systems Administrator at United Engineers and Constructors, prior to spending 10 years as CEO of Netaxs Internet Services. They founded readnews.com and left their role as CTO of ServerCentral to co-found Kentik in January 2014.
Justin Biegel
(COO)Justin spent almost 4 years as VP of Business Development at InvisbleHand Networks before working as a University of Maryland Researcher for 2 years. After 3 years at Internap, they co-founded Kentik 2014 and serve as COO.
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