Senior Platform Engineer, Smarsh
$115-165k
+ Stock Options
Cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions
Open for applications
Cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$115-165k
+ Stock Options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable customers to take advantage of the latest communication and collaboration tools, while staying ahead of compliance risk.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- Minimum 4 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles
- Strong proficiency with AWS services including EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
- Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management
- Experience with Istio or similar service mesh technologies
- Working knowledge of GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux
- Experience with CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go
- Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in a distributed, global team environment
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Willingness to participate in oncall rotations and respond to incidents
- What will you bring?
- 4+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles
- Demonstrated hands-on experience managing production AWS environments at scale
- Proven track record of Kubernetes cluster administration and troubleshooting
- Experience implementing and maintaining Terraform-based infrastructure
- Background in CI/CD pipeline development and release engineering processes
- Prior oncall experience with demonstrated incident response capabilities
- Experience working in distributed, global team environments
- Don't meet every requirement? Apply anyway! We value diverse candidates and encourage applications, even if you don't perfectly match the job description. Studies have shown that some strong candidates may self-select out of the interview process prematurely, at Smarsh we encourage an inclusive, high-performing environment
Desirable
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent)
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Knowledge of incident management and RCA processes
- Experience with multi-region or multi-account AWS architectures
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to enterprise environments
What the job involves
- The Platform Engineer will be a key member of the S&E (Site & Engineering) team, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and platform services
- This role focuses on enabling reliable, scalable, and secure platform operations while supporting oncall rotations and ensuring system availability across global operations
Our take
The emergence of new digital communication technologies provides businesses with a great opportunity for growth. But regulated businesses need to ensure they carry out communications monitoring, archiving, and compliance to stay on the right side of regulators. This can be difficult to do with new tech - to the extent that some businesses are hesitant to adopt it at all.
Of course, there’s a substantial appetite for ways to get around this obstacle and therefore reap the business benefits of modern comms. Smarsh provides just that, with its suite of archive, storage, and monitoring tools. In the two decades since its founding, the platform has netted over 6,500 clients including top worldwide banks, brokerage firms, insurers, registered investment advisors, and state and local government agencies in the US.
This puts Smarsh in a formidable position going forward. The issue the company addresses is only getting more acute as the volume of communications increases, more tech is brought to market, and the hybrid work model pushes more communications online. Smarsh’s extensive, top-tier global reach will help it field this growing market opportunity.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2015
$28m
LATE VC
Sep 2007
$15.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Healthcare insurance: We provide medical, dental and vision insurance and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses
- Personal time off: A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a "take-what-you-need" time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
- Recognition: We're big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee recognition program enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition
- Life and disability insurance: Fully paid life and disability insurance coverage is provided from the day you start your job
- Wellness program: You're happier when you're healthier. So we reimburse a portion of employees' monthly health club expenses
- Retirement savings: We match a percentage of your retirement savings contributions. Smarsh employer match invests immediately, so it's yours from day one
- Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical program provides a time to recharge, study or simply a time to do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service
- Giving back: Through our community partnership program, Full Circle, employees make a positive difference and receive paid time off for Full Circle activities so they can support the organizations that matter most to them
- Employee assistance program: We offer free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals and follow-up services to employees for personal or work-related issues to support their mental and emotional well-being
- Cellphones: To support our mobile and geographically dispersed workforce, we offer corporate cellular plan discounts with both AT&T and T-Mobile
- Getting here and home: Biking and taking public transit to work is not only cool but a smart and green thing to do. Smarsh proudly reimburses for monthly transit costs and biking expenses
- Parental leave: We want to support our colleagues who are starting a family. Smarsh offers paid leave to help you welcome your new bundle(s) of joy into the world
Company HQ
Portland Downtown, Portland, OR
Leadership
Stephen Marsh
(Founder & Chairman)Previously worked on capital market systems at Fidelity Investments, and then moved to a Senior Product Manager role at CCBN. They are also a board member at The Wild, Asset Compliance Inc., and ComplySci.
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