What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineering Lead - InfoSec/DevOps/System Reliability/Scalability/Cloud Infrastructure [...] position at Grid?
About us
Today’s financial system is built to favor those with money. Grid’s mission is to level that playing field by building financial products that help users better manage their financial future. The Grid app lets users access cash, build credit, spend money, optimize their taxes, and lots, lots more.
Grid is a fast-growing team that’s deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions. We’re solving huge problems and believe that every team member has a big role to play. Come join our growing team in Seattle!
The Team
Grid's Seattle-based money team manages Grid's core backend services. The team is responsible for building and operating high availability systems that move money quickly and safely. Platform engineering is vital to Grid's ongoing scalability and success.
The Role
With a focus on platform engineering and infrastructure, you'll lead our system stability and scalability! This work will include a number of exciting challenges, including database optimization, DevOps improvements, cloud infrastructure management, InfoSec program management, and product development.
As a founding team member of our platform engineering function, you'll have an opportunity to design, own, and operate Platform Engineering at Grid as we grow orders of magnitude.
What you’ll do :
- Evaluate backend and architectural bottlenecks
- Analyze system observability and service level objectives
- Improve scalability to enable order of magnitude growth
- Lead architectural initiatives related to databases and microservice decomposition
- Identify and solve real-world performance issues at scale
- Prioritize Grid's Platform Engineering roadmap in order to unlock exponential growth
- Build internal products to increase the productivity of the engineering team as a whole
- Employ Platform Engineering and DevOps practices that enable Grid to increase deployment velocity and quality
- Manage TechOps cost for Cloud Infrastructure and other vendors
- Assist with compliance programs and partnerships as needed by business operations
- Lead developer experience enhancement initiatives
- Architect and implement software reliability programs
- Improve observability and reduce MTTD / MTTR through proactive monitoring and engineering self-healing systems
You're a great candidate if you :
Salary : $150,000 - $200,000 a year
Benefits
Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
Make it work
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Salary : $150,000 - $200,000
