Engineering Manager, Forter
Observability
Plus stock options and Quarterly company bonus
2+ days a week in office
Fraud prevention platform
Job no longer available
Fraud prevention platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Plus stock options and Quarterly company bonus
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build trust in e-commerce by eliminating fraud for online merchants and marketplaces.
Role
Who you are
- Managed 5 or more engineers for 3+ years
- Experience writing and maintaining complex backend systems using any of the modern programming languages (i.e. Python, Java, Node.JS, Ruby)
- Extensive experience working with public clouds (i.e. AWS) and infrastructure provisioning tools like Terraform, cloud formation, or equivalent
- Hands-on experience managing and scaling data stores (100s TB, 100Ks/sec throughput) and pipelines
- Experience with monitoring/logging systems (i.e. ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Honeycomb, and experience with similar tools is also good) and alerting systems (Pagerduty)
- Experience working with container orchestration platforms such as K8s, ECS, or equivalent
- Excellent presentation skills - can talk and explain at the right level of abstraction to different audiences
- Fluent in written and spoken English
What the job involves
- Forter is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the team shaping the future of Observability in the organization
- The team is working on maintaining and improving a monitoring system that scales with event counts that double yearly; creating helpful OOTB alerts for services; automating monitoring and alerting tools for developers; helping engineers get closer to root causes and reducing MTTR
- These are the kinds of challenges the team tackles daily, because we believe that developer experience matters, and we are constantly looking to find better ways of doing things at Forter
- The Observability team’s mission is to enable Forter’s engineering teams to monitor their services with minimal friction and to reduce mean-time-to-recovery for their services
- In Forter, every second counts — when Forter’s services are down, it costs money for our customers and frustrates countless online shoppers
- You’ll be building an observability platform that supports hundreds of services, and thousands of VMs, doing hundreds of changes per day, that’s in use by 150 engineers across more than 20 teams, with even more growth expected in the coming years as our company scales
- Taking our monitoring & alerts system to the next level, from picking and buying the right tools to exposing APIs on top of them to allow developers to leverage them for their purpose
- Measuring and improving our cost optimization strategy, to retain logs and events for longer periods
- Providing debugging and tracing tools to correlate incidents with other dimensions (e.g. deployments, IO/CPU spikes in other areas, etc.)
- Lead a team of 3 experienced Software Engineers
- Mentor and guide engineers on the team, helping them advance in their careers
- Work on production critical systems, on which all developers rely for their day-to-day operations, with high availability and very large scale
- Be able to contribute to the team’s efforts (minimal capacity to keep context and know-how) and serve part of the on-call
- Help design, build, and maintain the core observability, monitoring, and alert infrastructure used by all of Forter’s engineering teams
- Help manage a multi-cloud, geo-distributed, high throughput system with an SLA of 99.999% availability
- Solve problems for fellow engineers by understanding their needs and coming up with both short-term workarounds and long-term solutions
- Work with a team of technically sophisticated engineers who make developer experience one of their priority
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Forter provides new generation fraud prevention to meet the challenges faced by modern enterprise e-commerce. The system eliminates the need for rules, scores or manual reviews, making fraud prevention friction-free.
The result is fraud prevention that is invisible to buyers and empowers merchants with increased approvals, smoother checkout and the near elimination of false positives - meaning more sales and happier customers.
Behind the scenes, Forter’s machine learning technology combines advanced cyber intelligence with behavioural and identity analysis to create a multi-layered fraud detection mechanism.
The company had previously announced IPO plans; however, it has yet to move forward with this venture. Since its $300M investment round in 2021, the company has made several acquisitions, strengthening its fraud prevention solution stack.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2021
$300m
SERIES F
Nov 2020
$125m
SERIES E
Total funding: $528m
Company benefits
- Vision & Dental Benefits
- Fitness Subsidies
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Liron Damri
(Co-Founder & President)Previously worked for 5 years at Paypal, holding various positions such as Head of Americas Analytics, Business Analytics (ARS) and Strategy and Business Development, LATAM. He served as Forter's COO until 2017
Michael Reitblat
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously VP Product and Board Member at Pango Parking for 4 years and Military Intelligence Officer at Israeli Intelligence Corps - Cyber Command for 3 years
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