Applause · 1 day ago
Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$90K/yr - $110K/yrApplause is raising the bar for digital quality and employee experience, providing award-winning software testing and UX research solutions to top brands. They are looking for a Platform Engineer to join their Platform Delivery team, responsible for managing the core infrastructure of the Applause platform and ensuring maximum development velocity with proper safety measures.
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Responsibilities
Use infrastructure management tools to manage cloud resources
Manage infrastructure services such as build automation systems
Participate in requirements gathering, design reviews, and code reviews
Develop automation jobs for deployment and management of services
Participate in management and troubleshooting of infrastructure services
Perform task-related infrastructure work such as backup/restore and patch management
Assist engineering teams in troubleshooting their services on the platform
Participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure services
Operate all aspects of our internal developer platform and services hosting
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
Experience writing Bash and familiarity with one or more of Go, Python, or Ruby
Experience with monitoring tools and services such as Nagios, New Relic, or Datadog
Experience with Linux and familiarity with troubleshooting tools, such as strace, lsof, and netstat
Experience with Kubernetes and familiarity with operators and Helm
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Familiarity with common build tools for Java, Python, and JavaScript
Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, or GitHub Actions
Understanding of distributed computing concepts such as leader election and locking
Ability to communicate effectively using documents, diagrams, and more informal methods such as chat and email
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Opportunities for career advancement
Structured onboarding
In-house knowledge sessions
Access to thousands of virtual courses available on demand
Company
Applause
Applause is a crowd-sourced digital quality testing enabling companies to deliver digital experiences to their customers.
Founded in 2007
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$115.82MKey Investors
Credit SuisseGoldman SachsQuestMark Partners
2017-08-23Acquired
2016-09-14Series F· $35M
2015-03-06Seed· $0.02M
Leadership Team
Christopher Malone
Chief Executive Officer
Chris Sheehan
Executive Vice President, High Tech & AI
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