Remote Staff Software Engineer - DevEx

Description:

• The Staff Software Engineer - DevEx will be responsible for developing automations, optimizing costs, and improving the developer experience.
• The role ensures that the environment is scalable, resilient, and efficient.
• Key responsibilities include developing automations and infrastructure as code (IaC) using GitOps, AWX, and Terraform for a standardized and easily maintainable environment.
• The engineer will guarantee the resilience and observability of engineering tools using Prometheus, Grafana, and on-call monitoring.
• Improving the developer experience with efficient tools, optimized pipelines, and simplified processes for deployment and monitoring is essential.
• Implementing FinOps practices to optimize infrastructure costs, aiming for a 15 to 30% reduction in AWS costs using Karpenter, KEDA, and autoscaling is required.
• Standardizing the observability stack to ensure the availability of metrics, logs, and traces for troubleshooting and performance tuning is necessary.
• The role involves working with Cloud-Native and DevOps technologies, including Istio, Kong, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and HashiCorp Vault, ensuring security and scalability.
• Collaboration with engineering teams to define deployment, security, and governance standards is expected.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have solid experience with AWS and Kubernetes, including KEDA and Karpenter.
• A deep understanding of monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and AlertManager is required.
• Experience in automation and IaC with Terraform, AWX, and GitOps is essential.
• Knowledge of distributed systems architecture, service mesh, and API security (Istio, Kong, HashiCorp Vault) is necessary.
• Candidates should have experience in DevEx and improving tools/processes for development.
• Familiarity with messaging and event-driven architectures (Kafka and RabbitMQ) is required.
• Strong expertise in FinOps with a focus on optimizing AWS costs is essential.
• The ability to solve complex infrastructure problems while ensuring resilience and high availability is necessary.
• Candidates must possess the ability to collaborate with teams, promoting technical maturity and best practices.

Benefits:

• Neon offers medical and dental assistance, meal and food vouchers, life insurance, and a credit for a home office kit.
• Employees have access to Gympass, which provides a network of gyms and online classes.
• There is support for childcare or babysitting, extended parental leave, and discounted packages for Open English classes for employees and their dependents.
• Discounts on MBAs and specializations at USP ESALQ are available.
• Employees can benefit from Betterfly, a wellness platform, and the Alô cafuné program for psychological support.
• Discounts of up to 50% on medications through Epharma and access to a network of partnerships for discounts in pharmacies, supermarkets, and more are provided.
• Use of coworking spaces is available according to internal policy.
• Neon supports career development through a semi-annual performance evaluation cycle, regular feedback, and an individual development plan.
• The Decola program facilitates internal recruitment, and Onflow provides a network for internal knowledge sharing.
• Employees using the Neon account can enjoy easy access to payroll loans and free cashback.