Infrastructure Engineer, ReadMe
More information about location
Developer hub making APIs easy to use
Open for applications
Developer hub making APIs easy to use
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give early, growth, and even large companies the opportunity to engage their developer communities through beautiful, collaborative developer hubs.
Role
Who you are
- A programmer with professional experience developing server-side software with Node.js or a similar language
- Comfortable designing production infrastructure and implementing your ideas, leveraging technologies from service providers like AWS and Cloudflare
- It would be a bonus if you’ve got experience using a tool like Terraform to build infrastructure as code, although it’s not necessary
- Passionate about making products that people love
- Understanding that roles are flexible; willing to take on new opportunities as ReadMe grows!
What the job involves
- Design and build infrastructure and tooling to make sure ReadMe’s data storage is fast, reliable, and secure
- Expand the tooling for our observability platform tooling to ensure that developers can make good use of logging, metrics, and alerts
- Add features to Deploybert — our internal automation system for deploying code to production — to support new services and expand its capabilities
- Come up with ideas around what ReadMe’s infrastructure should look like, and communicate them to your coworkers
- Collaborate with other engineers and people around ReadMe. You’ll be fairly autonomous in this role, but you won’t be on an island! You’ll support and be supported by your coworkers
- How you'll grow within one month:
- Become familiar with the ReadMe team and product
- Become familiar with ReadMe’s current infrastructure
- Be involved in planning meetings for upcoming features
- Within three months, you'll:
- Begin developing infrastructure capabilities to support ReadMe’s latest projects and architecture
- Begin to form opinions on what ReadMe’s infrastructure will look like moving forward
- Pick up larger tasks with direction and support from other team members
- Review code written by others with confidence, applying best practices along the way
- Give demos of new features and services to other teams in the company
- Within six months, you'll:
- Guide internal initiatives for technical improvements to the infrastructure codebase
- Advise other team members on architectural decisions based on your expertise
- Have created a well-defined idea for what infrastructure will look like moving forward, and begun prototyping and realizing that design!
Our take
APIs help different tools communicate with one another, let developers access essential services without the need to code and are critical components when driving a platform-driven strategy. However, they require solid documentation in order to help make the best use of them.
ReadMe is a platform powering interactive developer hubs that help customers build out their API documentation. They allow developers to make calls faster while quickly troubleshooting issues along the way to provide teams with the highest-impact improvements.
The company was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 cohort and since then it has grown steadily and profitably by working with over 3,000 companies, including Microsoft, Coinbase, Notion, and Afterpay. Because the company worked with such big names from an early stage, it focused primarily on developing its API logs to create more dynamic documentation, putting the startup in a prime position for further expansion.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2019
$9m
SERIES A
Jun 2015
$1m
SEED
Total funding: $10.2m
Company benefits
- Unlimited PTO with a three-week minimum
- Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you, and 50% for your dependents
- A One Medical membership
- A wellness stipend for whatever wellness means to you of up to $150 per month
- One-to-one donation matching of up to $1,000 per year
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave after the birth or adoption of a child
- Work from home office stipend of $500
- Three offsite retreats per year to get together with coworkers and plan for the quarter ahead
Company values
- Be the Change You Seek: If you think something could be better, make it so.
- Make Things That Just Work: We do the heavy lifting so our users don't have to.
- Strive for Simplicity: We want things that are easy to understand and easy on the eyes.
- Err on the Side of Whimsy: Life is too short to not use puns and owl doodles everywhere.
- Make the Compass Spin: Just because we're a small team doesn't mean that it should show.
- Always Do What's Human: Whether it's for the user, product, or each other.
Company HQ
Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Gregory Koberger
(Founder)Studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Share this job
View 4 more jobs at ReadMe