Staff Platform Engineer, Raft

• 3+ years of overall hands-on experience developing production software leveraging modern languages (including Java, Python, Go, NodeJS, etc)
• In-depth experience developing containerized services deployed in production on orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, etc
• Extensive background with agile and lean software development philosophies
• Practical experience working with relational and/or non-relational databases e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, etc
• Demonstrated experience with modern version control systems such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, etc
• Ability to obtain a SECRET or above security clearance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or an equivalent technical degree; or equivalent industry experience
• Obtain Security+ within the first 90 days of employment with Raft
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance

Desirable

• We’re looking for an experienced Staff Platform Engineer to support our customers and join our passionate team of high-impact problem solvers
• The Staff Platform Services Engineer will have software engineering experience building and deploying applications to hybrid-infrastructure developer platforms (private and commercial cloud infrastructure)
• You will have experience working with customer application teams to edit/correct helm charts, deploy to containerized platforms, and use observability, monitoring, and alerting tools to run post release testing
• With leadership skills, they will mentor junior to mid-level engineers and have strong communication skills for high-level stakeholder interaction