Remote Staff Software Engineer, Compute & Networking

Description:

• Attentive is seeking a self-motivated, highly driven Staff Software Engineer to join the Compute and Network team.
• The team provides a compute and networking platform with reusable opinionated cloud components and tools for engineering teams.
• Responsibilities include building and operating the core compute and networking infrastructure of Attentive's microservices architecture.
• The infrastructure consists of AWS VPCs, TransitGateways, multicluster Kubernetes (EKS), Istio, and Cloudflare.
• Tools used include Terraform and ArgoCD for Infrastructure as Code.
• The role involves analyzing, troubleshooting, coordinating, and resolving complex infrastructure issues.
• The engineer will orchestrate Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple networks and AWS accounts.
• The position requires ownership of Infrastructure as Code orchestration for application teams to consume AWS cloud services.
• The engineer will develop automation workflows to improve team efficiency and analyze system resources for efficiency, scalability, and stability.
• Collaboration with other teams and business stakeholders is essential to deliver business initiatives.
• The engineer will act as a technical leader and facilitate alignment across teams on project outcomes, priorities, and timelines.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure.
• A strong understanding of best practices in infrastructure is required.
• Experience in building infrastructure in a microservices architecture is necessary.
• A background in software development is essential, with a passion for applying this experience to infrastructure.
• Candidates should have experience building Infrastructure as Code self-serve platforms using Terraform.
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, and ArgoCD is required.
• Passion for observability and experience with tools like Splunk, Nagios, Sensu, Datadog, and New Relic is important.
• Candidates must be familiar with containers and container orchestration, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Comfort with the OSI networking model and experience debugging or creating solutions from layer 7 to layer 3 is required.

Benefits:

• Competitive perks and benefits are offered, including health and wellness programs.
• The US base salary range for this full-time position is $156,000 - $240,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
• Attentive promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace, providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants.
• The company is committed to reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.