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Kentik

Kentik is an information technology company specializing in network intelligence. Seeking curious, driven professionals who share its passion for "unlocking the

Staff Platform Engineer

Location

United States

Posted

146 days ago

Salary

$165K - $200K / year

Seniority

Lead

Job Description

Staff Platform Engineer

Kentik

• Build self-service, declarative and API-driven infrastructure components in go, nodejs • Contribute to our internal deployment tooling (mostly python CLI tools) and service orchestration platform based on Envoy, Nomad and other Hashicorp components • Help formulate and execute our strategy for datastores such as postgres, kafka, redis (reliability, performance, overhead, capacity planning, …) • Improve the reliability of our services, with code and testing improvements as well as internal advocacy and education • Mentoring of junior team members • Create and update technical documentation for infrastructure • Be on the on-call escalation path for services owned by the team

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years of relevant experience
  • Passion for building and providing amazing tools and platforms to other engineers
  • Strong coding skills in Go or Python (alternatively: server-side javascript, ruby, java …)
  • Significant experience with data ecosystems and tools, cloud or on-prem
  • An SRE mindset and and the intent to build reliable, easy to operate systems

Benefits

  • 100% of premiums are paid by company for health, vision and dental coverage for you and your dependents
  • Additionally, an annual Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) of $3,000 for an individual or $4,500 for a family
  • Paid family & medical leave
  • Open PTO, a quarterly Wellness Day, and a minimum of 10 paid holidays
  • 401(k) retirement account
  • Home office reimbursement
  • Stock options

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