Senior Engineer, Platform

Responsibilities

• Primary engineer driving best practices and improved adoption of observability tools, especially Datadog
• Optimize Taptap’s deployment methodologies using Github Actions and AWS ECS
• Drive maturation of Taptap Send service management through adoption of SRE best Practices
• Contribute to Taptap Send infrastructure as code projects, especially in Terraform
• Work with other engineering teams to assure optimal operation of Taptap Send’s systems including responding to large-scale incidents

Requirements

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Cloudformation and Ansible
• Familiarity with industry leading CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitHub Actions, BitBucket Pipelines, CircleCI, BuildKite, etc.
• Experience with hands-on software engineering as part of a larger team or project (open-source experience acceptable)
• Experience scripting in Python
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container schedulers including AWS ECS & EKS, Kubernetes, Mesos/Marathon, etc.
• Hands-on cloud experience, especially in AWS. AWS certification preferred
• Degree in Computer Science, IT, or similar field; a Master’s is a plus or seven years' equivalent experience

Qualifications

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements. Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.