Senior Platform Engineer, Stash

• You thrive on collaborating to solve hard problems, are passionate about finding innovative solutions, can recognize toil, and delight in simplifying a complicated system with little to no impact on the end users
• 6+ years of experience (Depending on the open role) Software engineering experience, preferably within the Infrastructure Engineering area
• 6+ years of experience in highly scalable cloud architectures, including service-oriented architectures (GCP, AWS experience preferred)
• Ability to collaborate well and come up with maintainable, reliable solutions
• Experience building scalable, high-performing systems
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical directions

Desirable

• As a Platform Engineer in the Infrastructure Engineering organization at Stash, your main Stakeholders are the Product Development Engineers
• You will influence and shape the implementation of their daily work experience
• One of the most important parts of this role is preventing Tech Debt
• Execute complex software engineering projects in the infrastructure area, such as infrastructure tooling consolidation/standardization, CICD architecture, and Internal Developer Portal
• Codify best practices and choose solutions that are easily testable and eliminate code smells
• Influence engineers to hold high standards of maintainability and reduce tech debt by writing elegant code and performing effective code reviews
• Use code reviews as an opportunity to coach and ensure best practices/standards. Considers security and privacy in code and projects
• Exhibit a deep understanding of abstracting processes to be used by every team
• Effectively identifies and communicates issues in any system, primarily related to CI/CD and development practices
• Provide engineering estimates with clear assumptions for assigned tasks and projects
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including product engineers, marketing, and security, and evaluates tradeoffs between solutions based on project priorities
• Suggest process improvements for better quality, velocity, and team engagement
• Proactively communicates, collaborates and brainstorms with the whole of engineering to better understand the use cases and user journey