Senior Backend Software Engineer, Philo

• 8+ years of software development and infrastructure management experience
• Experience working with distributed systems and an understanding of microservices architecture principles
• Experience with Linux and containerized (i.e. Docker) environments
• Experience managing cloud computing environments (AWS or GCP) and configuring cloud services e.g. CloudWatch, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, SQS, ALB/NLB/ELB, VPC networking, IAM security
• Experience with container orchestration platforms (i.e. Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of networking and internet application protocols including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, and HTTP
• Strong understanding of network and application security principles and best practices
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with configuration management systems and Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with Monitoring/Observability systems (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, TICK/InfluxDB, Fluentd, ELK, Datadog)
• Familiarity or hands-on experience with CI/CD automation systems e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases and familiarity with modern data warehousing and querying
• Proficient in writing, testing, and profiling software in Golang, Javascript/Typescript, C++, Ruby, Python or similar programming languages
• Experience and aptitude for collaborating and communicating with internal and external stakeholders in both business and technical roles

Desirable

• We are seeking an enthusiastic Infrastructure Software Engineer to help us build and improve the core infrastructure at Philo
• Manage the core infrastructure at Philo. This infrastructure is relied on by a large subscriber base of Philo’s product as well as internal stakeholders across the company
• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure components (AWS and Kubernetes) using a combination of in-house technology and open source software
• Design, build, and maintain monitoring and observability systems that enable Philo engineers and the support team to gain insight and to discover and debug issues
• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD systems enabling Philo engineers to create pipelines to test and deploy their code. This includes working with automation in physical device labs for testing video streaming platforms
• Configure CDNs and video pipelines to transcode and deliver vast amounts of video data to our customers
• Establish tools, methods and best practices for other Philo engineers interfacing with the Philo infrastructure. Ensure reliability, security, and scalability of the Philo platform. Promote Infrastructure as Code
• Work closely with other Philo engineers to deploy and instrument software systems
• Drive evaluation, selection, and integration of third-party vendor systems and work closely with vendors to configure and manage them
• We are language agnostic, but most of our backend code is written in Golang, Ruby and Typescript, with some C++ and Python. Our services run on Kubernetes, and we practice continuous deployment across all of our systems