Senior Site Reliability Software Engineer, Babylist
$171-256.5k
+ Equity + Bonus
Online universal baby registry
Job no longer available
Online universal baby registry
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$171-256.5k
+ Equity + Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help expecting parents get exactly what they need for the arrival of their new baby.
Role
Who you are
- Backed by at least 7 years of professional programming experience, including time at a rapidly growing e-commerce or technology organization
- Able to build large, complex, and highly maintainable systems—and you have the track record to prove it!
- Can help plan forward for DevOps as a resource for Engineering, Product, and Data in innovation, training and support
- Will increase and leverage observability and Instrumentation
- Familiar with building and operating production software in the cloud at scale using Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Azure, or a similar provider
- Knowledgeable about modern relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Equipped with a solid understanding of Linux or other UNIX-like systems
- Steeped in modern systems design (you know the ins and outs of networking, DNS, CDNs, and distributed systems)
- An excellent troubleshooter and debugger
- Experienced in Agile development and Continuous Delivery
- A flexible, open-minded developer who’s able and eager to learn new domains quickly
- (Bonus)-Strong knowledge of AWS, as well as infrastructure tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, and Puppet
- (Bonus)-Web application development experience
What the job involves
- Babylist is searching for a thoughtful, versatile Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability to join our Engineering team
- In this position, you’ll be the go-to person for building and operating our cloud infrastructure to deliver maximum performance at scale
- You’ll be given free reign to dive deep into our production architecture, dreaming up ways to bring more speed, efficiency, and automation to our systems
- Proactively identify the needs of the Babylist Engineering organization 3-9 months in the future and develop plans to meet those needs
- Build cloud infrastructure, manage our production environment, and participate in our on-call rotation to support applications with millions of monthly active users
- Analyze and implement performance improvements in our API and backend application layers
- Improve our development, deployment, and monitoring tools
- Mentor other team members through design and architecture planning, code reviews, and knowledge sharing sessions
Our take
Since its 2011 launch, Babylist has grown into one of the most highly rated baby registries in the US. The difference it offers is that it allows users to include products from any store in their registries. On top of this, the company’s model also focuses heavily on creating informational content, which allows it to generate ad revenue while building customer loyalty.
Originally scaled with fairly low venture funding, Babylist claims half of new parents in the US now use its services. This, given that the baby products industry is worth close to $90 billion, shows the company's immense growth and speaks to the impact it has made in the space.
Babylist has seen strong funding in the past, which has fuelled projects such as the launch of virtual showrooms and further expanded the company's presence. The company acquired Expectful, a health and wellness tool, in 2023 with the long-term vision of combining the two companies into a larger health and wellness media property that can help people navigate all aspects of parenthood from fertility to diapers.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
67% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Nov 2021
$40m
SERIES C
Total funding: $40m
Company benefits
- HAPPIER WEEKENDS – We work to live, not live to work. That means we generally don’t work nights or weekends, and we offer 10 paid holidays throughout the year, in addition to your paid time off.
- PAID TIME OFF THAT WORKS FOR YOU – Life is unpredictable. Use your time off for what you need, whether that’s a vacation, family event or a day to unplug.
- PARENTAL LEAVE – We offer a flexible, 12-week paid parental leave policy.
- FLEXIBLE BENEFITS – Choose from benefits that support your working style, whether that's remote, in the office or something in between.
- HEALTH & WELLNESS – Wellness benefits include 100% paid coverage for medical, vision and dental for full-time employees.
- BABYLIST STORE DISCOUNT – All full-time employees receive a generous Babylist Store discount.
Company HQ
Emeryville, CA
Leadership
Natalie Gordon
(Founder & CEO)Former Software Engineer at Amazon. Initially founded Babylist as a side project and has since taken the company to a market leading status.
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