Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Role Description

This role involves maintaining and improving the Data Pipeline infrastructure and supporting the migration to containerized services.

• Maintain and improve the Data Pipeline infrastructure consisting of Confluent Kafka, Kubernetes clusters, Cloud Composer, CloudSQL, and BigQuery
• Introduce Terraform to automate the management of Data Pipeline infrastructure
• Support the migration of the Data Pipeline to golden-path containerized services
• Manage cloud hosted VMs in Google Cloud Platform
• Automate repetitive manual processes
• Maintain up to date VMs
• Document technical architecture and user features
• Educate engineers on tool usage and possible process improvements
• Assist in defining the team’s roadmap
• Work closely with Engineers to gather requirements
• Create and monitor statistics to observe tooling health and functionality
• Work and collaborate with distributed teams across the world

Qualifications

• At least 5 years experience as an Infrastructure or Software Engineer
• Completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp, CS, CE, SW, MIS or equivalent degree, or has relevant work experience
• Knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible (we use Puppet)
• Experienced with Linux systems administration, including solid scripting skills (Ruby) and Bash
• A solid understanding of modern programming and design principles
• Ability to write tested, maintainable code
• A good communicator who works well with geographically distributed teams
• Excited to explore and engage in new languages, tools, and technologies
• Experienced in leading a project initiative
• Comfortable working on several projects
• Desire to work in a collaborative, open environment on an Agile team as a contributor and mentor
• Highly proactive and results-oriented with excellent critical thinking skills

Requirements

• Familiarity with data pipeline concepts and technologies (bonus points)

Company Description

BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture.

• We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow.
• BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast-growing, mid-market businesses.
• We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.