Key skills
PythonJavaGolangRubyAIKafkaGCPTerraformKubernetesK8sPulumiPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchRabbitMQCI/CD
About this role
Placer.ai is one of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, seeking a Production Engineer to help build and scale its infrastructure. The role involves shaping and implementing architecture, introducing new technologies, and improving the release pipeline.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and implement tools to help our company succeed
- Taking care of our CI/CD tools
- Manage our production and multiple development environments
- Collaborate with development teams to improve our system infrastructure and stability
- Develop effective tooling, dashboards, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks
- Measure, analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
- Carry tasks end-to-end, from design to deployment, and take full ownership
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in a similar position
- Experience working with public cloud
- 3+ years of production experience with Kubernetes including using open source solutions from the eco-system
- 2+ years of experience with 'Infrastructure as a code' tools such as Terraform, Pulumi or similar
- 2+ years of experience managing Databases and Queues such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar
- Skills with at least one of general purpose languages such as Golang, Python, Ruby or Java
- Strong skills with a variety of monitoring and alerting tools
- Sense of humor, all around team player, fast self-learning individual, problem solver
- CKA certification or similar
- Strong Kubernetes skills, experience with modern CNIs, volume plugins, security, operators, service meshes, ingresses and K8s ecosystem
- Extensive knowledge of RabbitMQ
- Experience working with GCP