Lead Software Engineer - Remote

Commerce is a company dedicated to empowering businesses through its AI-driven commerce ecosystem. They are seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their database infrastructure, create automation tools, and drive engineering efficiency across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the planning and implementation of key initiatives to enhance the stability and reliability of our database infrastructure
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles to create tools, services, and automation for building, monitoring and operating complex infrastructure and service-oriented architectures
• Collaborate on platform-level initiatives that drive engineering automation and efficiency across the organization
• Continuously improve, evolve and innovate the observability of Commerce’s platform architecture
• Take full ownership of issues and projects, driving them to completion with a high degree of autonomy
• Participate in planning and technical design sessions, contributing to their successful execution
• Join the team’s on-call rotation

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in building software, operating, or supporting large-scale Linux based service-oriented architectures, with expertise in SQL systems as a bonus
• A deep interest in learning and working with new technologies and programming languages
• Experience in UNIX systems administration, along with proficiency in Golang, Ruby, PHP, or Bash
• Hands-on experience with Docker and orchestration tools such as Nomad (we use Nomad), Kubernetes, or Amazon ECS
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet (we use Puppet)
• Experience with observability and application performance monitoring (APM) tools, such as Alertmanager, ELK, Prometheus, New Relic, Sentry and Lightstep
• A software engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help infrastructure and software excel together
• An excellent communicator who thrives in a geographically distributed team with team members in Austin, San Francisco, Sydney and remote
• Obsessive compulsive, but in a good way. Your systems and scripts are clean, well-documented and comprehensible