AWS Engineer, SearchPilot
£60-80k
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SEO A/B testing software
Job no longer available
SEO A/B testing software
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-80k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide measurable and provable search engine optimisation results for large websites.
Role
Who you are
- Strong AWS experience and knowledge
- Experience with architecting cloud solutions
- In-depth understanding of HTTP & networking; for our proxy layer it is important to understand this well
- A strong communicator who can explain technical concepts clearly
- Enjoys getting things right whilst realising that done is better than perfect
- Enjoys learning new things
- Self-directed and self-motivated
- Exposure to various CDNs is useful, but not essential
- Prometheus experience is helpful
What the job involves
- Working with developers to spec out and build out solutions to cater to new features. A recent example was deploying Kinesis to gather streaming data from 7 AWS regions, which is then aggregated and stored centrally
- Iterative improvements and refinements to what we have. For us, performance and resilience are absolutely critical, and there is still plenty of scope for further improvements here. We are looking for someone not just to make the improvements, but to ideate them and drive them forward
- In the late stage of the sales cycle, we typically have a couple of rounds of integration calls with prospective customers to work out what challenges we might face and help them understand what deployment looks like
- We have customers using Akamai, CloudFlare, Fastly, CloudFront, and more as CDNs, and with a wide variety of backend technologies
- After you have bedded in you will join the on-call rota. In the last few months, we have seen maybe one call a month, and these are often during work hours
- This role would include some customer-facing time (1-2 calls a week discussing integration with customer teams, and responding to the odd ad-hoc query from customers)
- This means you need strong communication skills, and it is also helpful to have a broad knowledge of technologies beyond the ones we directly use, as we work with customers using a variety of solutions
- You will work alongside our existing SRE, and report directly to the CTO
Application process
- We anticipate the interview process will include a short qualification call followed by 2 remote video interviews with different members of the team
- We may ask you to complete a short technical task between the interview rounds
Our take
SearchPilot was spun out of Distilled (now Brainlabs) with the aim of helping its customers grow their visibility in Google search results and other engines. It's driven by bringing real value to the teams and companies it supports with its data-driven and scientific SEO approach.
Its platform is fundamentally performance focused, providing actionable insights which can be applied to websites in just 15 minutes as well as being eCommerce friendly. In addition to offering expert insights from a team with over 15 years' worth of SEO experience, the SearchPilot platform is secure and resilient, with full PCI compliance and immediate HTTPS handling.
SearchPilot currently processes more than one billion requests monthly, supporting online businesses processing millions of dollars daily. These clients range across industries from eCommerce to travel, including international brands such as Skyscanner, Missguided, Vistaprint, and Upwork.
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Insights
40% female employees
Company
Company benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays 🇬🇧
- Subsidised private healthcare and life insurance 🇬🇧
- 5% pension matching 🇬🇧
- Subsidised gym membership 🇬🇧
- Summer hours 🇬🇧
- Half day off on your birthday (for a lie-in or an early start to the celebrations!) 🇬🇧
- A laptop and second monitor 🇬🇧
- Generous maternity and paternity policies 🇬🇧
- A Kindle with some books preloaded 🇬🇧
- A £600 personal budget each year you can use to make you happier or more productive at work such as a new flashy monitor, a new office chair, or training 🇬🇧
- Open and transparent communication about company updates 🇬🇧
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Duncan Morris
(Founder)They worked at Markel International as a Developer before they co-founded Distilled Ltd in April 2005, serving as CEO. They founded SearchPilot in February 2020.
Will Critchlow
(CEO)They also co-Founded Distilled with Duncan Morris in 2005. Alongside being CEO, is a Global Associate at Moz and an Investor at TeamSportz.pro.
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