Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Swiftly
Software solutions for retailers
Job no longer available
Software solutions for retailers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To connect you with your customers by providing tools and technology that touch every aspect of their retail experience.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional experience in software development
- Experience working with Azure, and preferably AKS
- Experience with distributed systems and highly available backend services
- Demonstrated ability to be analytical and have strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including logging, monitoring, continuous integration/deployment, infrastructure as code, and automated testing practices
- Proven Success operating Azure or similar cloud-native deployment and operational contexts, including Kubernetes, Pulumi/Terraform, and Opentelemetry/New Relic/Datadog
Desirable
- Experience working in an organization that embraces modern infrastructure tools such as Kubernetes, service mesh, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code
- E-commerce or Retail experience
- Experience designing and deploying infrastructure automation for use by multiple application development teams
- Experience running Kubernetes workloads in multiple cloud regions
- Ability to collaborate with senior staff and mentor juniors
What the job involves
- Design and drive consensus for the operational infrastructure of our platform team. This includes how our microservices are provisioned, deployed and rolled out safely, how configurations and networking is managed per environment, and how all systems are monitored, supported, and scaled in production
- Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to proactively identify operational needs and deliver solutions
- Write, deliver, and maintain infrastructural services that can be used by directly by development teams, including documentation and support materials
- Establish and reinforce healthy software engineering practices – including: code quality, continuous delivery, and automated testing
- Aggressively automate all the things and make it easy to do the right thing when it comes to security, reliability, and resource management using GitOps principles. Drive the automation from build Pipelines (Azure DevOps/ Github actions), Kubernetes operators (Flux/Argo) and scaling via KEDA
- Mentor and force multiply other members of the engineering team
- Ensure the uptime and scalability or systems through best practices such as auto-healing and circuit breaking
- Be a trusted on call support engineer as part of a rotation
- Other related duties as assigned
Our take
Online shopping seems to have become the norm, and yet 80% of American grocery shopping is still done in person. This is the market Swiftly seeks to engage with its mobile platform specifically aimed at physical stores.
It markets itself as helping brick-and-mortar stores compete with online business. These stores have the benefits of locality and community, but with swiftly’s app and mobile tools they have data-heavy consumer analytics, targeted product suggestions, delivery options and loyalty schemes on top. There’s a couple of other features as well, but essentially it lets physical stores operate in a digital market while still benefitting from the functionality of the store itself.
It’s a clever idea that seeks to capitalise on the myriad potential of smaller businesses, rather than looking for a handful of big client deals. There are other companies operating in the digital/physical crossover retail space, like Foxtrot, but Swiftly’s one-size-fits-all platform has greater potential for scaleability, turning heads by raising $200 million in funding in just 6 months. Its latest investment is being focussed on expanding into new stores, new countries, and new areas of retail.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2022
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $215.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Hours: We believe life's about balance, so we offer a flexible schedule with time for work and play
- Work From Anywhere: Have laptop will travel. Whether you're at home or on the road, your office can be anywhere
- Leading Benefits: We offer a benefits package that gives you--and your family--the best options out there
- Incredible Teammates: We've built a team that inspires and challenges each other every single day
- Advancement Opportunities: Sky's the limit. We offer opportunities to grow in your career and thrive in your field.
Company HQ
Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Henry Kim
(CEO & Co-Founder)Formerly a Senior Analyst at Morgan Stanley and Operations Partner at BMEquity. They were also Co-founder and President of Symphony Commerce.
Karen Ho
(Technical Fellow & Co-Founder)Previously worked as an Application Developer at Godlman Sachs and an Instructor at Hackbright Academy, before becoming Full Stack Engineer at both Symphony Commerce and Scoutible.
Sean Turner
(CTO & Co-Founder)Former Software Development Engineer at Microsoft and Head of Product at Symphony Commerce.
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