Remote Technical Lead - Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer

Description:

• Flip.shop is seeking a Technical Lead - Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer to work remotely or in locations such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York City.
• The company is focused on innovation in social commerce and has recently raised $144 million in Series C funding, achieving a valuation of $1.05 billion.
• The role involves leading the design, implementation, and optimization of serving infrastructure for recommendation and ads systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Key responsibilities include designing infrastructure for large-scale systems, ensuring high availability and performance, implementing best practices for distributed systems, collaborating with ML engineers and backend developers, resolving infrastructure bottlenecks, driving automation and monitoring processes, and guiding architectural decisions.

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• Candidates must have 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or backend systems development.
• Strong expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for high traffic environments is essential.
• Proficiency in cloud platforms and container orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker is required.
• Experience with large-scale data systems like Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, or Flink, and storage solutions is necessary.
• A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana), and system monitoring is required.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance serving systems for recommendation or ads platforms is a plus.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills are essential for this role.

Benefits:

• The compensation package includes a base salary that varies based on location, experience, and performance, along with equity, bonuses, and long-term incentives.
• Employees benefit from a progressive PTO policy and other benefits that contribute to a comprehensive rewards package.
• Working at Flip.shop provides the opportunity to build cutting-edge infrastructure that powers personalized shopping experiences for millions of users, allowing for a significant impact on the future of social commerce.