Staff Engineer, Glydways
Cloud Platform
Autonomous electric transportation
Open for applications
Autonomous electric transportation
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide a 24/7 mobility service solution that is environmentally net-negative in terms of greenhouse gas production (GHG), and, inherently profitable.
Role
Who you are
- Strong working experience with AWS Environments
- Deep Expertise in Kubernetes, including on-premises deployment and management using core OSS applications such as: CoreDNS, ExternalDNS, Karpenter, Kyverno, Tetragon, Traefik
- Proficiency in infrastructure with IaC tooling, preferably Terraform
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and identity management in cloud environments
- Strong in scripting / programming languages such as Make, Bash, Python, & Golang
- Knowledge of on-call support processes, incident management and monitoring tooling
- Familiar with developing infrastructure provisioning pipelines with CI/CD tooling such as Buildkite & ArgoCD
- Experience building out observability & alerting systems with OpenTelemetry and vendors like Honeycomb
What the job involves
- The Developer Platform team as a part of Software Platform is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that enables all developers to track, build, deploy and operate our software
- From the build system everyone uses, to the tools used to submit and deploy changes, to the cloud infrastructure they use to operate it - we support the entire development experience
- The Developer Platform team forges the tools that empower the entire software engineering organization while working with engineers from almost every team
- Cloud Infrastructure: Lead the design, implementation, & maintenance of scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure solutions
- Infrastructure as Code: Automate deployment, configuration, & management processes to improve efficiency & reliability
- Cloud Operations, Optimization, & Scaling: Oversee day-to-day cloud operations, monitoring system performance, & optimizing resource utilization. Develop scaling strategies to accommodate growing workloads and keeping costs low
- Security & Compliance: Ensure cloud environments follow security best practices and compliance requirements. Implement and maintain security controls, conduct regular audits, & respond to security incidents
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Design & implement high availability & disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity. Conduct regular testing of disaster recovery plans
- Collaboration: Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to identify and implement improvements within the cloud infrastructure to align with business needs
- Observability: Design and implement observability and alerting systems to track down outages & monitor trends
Our take
Although more than 4000 cities across the globe meet the threshold for necessary urban mass transit systems, under 5% of them have the capacity to make it a reality. Glydways' autonomous electricity-powered transport systems could provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly alternative for the 95% without rail or transport systems.
Glydways' Personal Rapid Transit systems consist of battery-operated electric vehicles called Glydcars that travel on dedicated rights of way. These “roads” can be built above ground level or through tunnels, and can integrate with other forms of public transport already existing within the city or town.
Whilst the adding of Glydcars infrastructure brings up questions of extra cost, the company’s mass transit solution has nonetheless attracted positive attention, as well as serious investment from the likes of Bill Gates' venture fund Gates Frontier. This round of funding follows news that the Glydcar has been chosen as part of two Californian transport developments, with only time able to reveal how successful the system will be.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2024
$20m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$56m
SERIES B
Total funding: $76m
Company HQ
Downtown, South San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Mark Seeger
(CSO)Previously Director of Digital Innovation at Ogilvy. Founded M Jeans and GreenIdea, and was a Product Design Engineer at Apple.
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