Platform Engineering Lead - InfoSec/DevOps/System Reliability/Scalability/Cloud Infrastructure (Seattle)

GridSeattle, Washington, United StatesOnsite

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:

Have 5+ years of professional software development experience
Have 3+ years of experience in consumer software technology
Have experience in high growth tech startup environments
Are data-driven, fluent in SQL, datadog and basic analytics
Are mission-driven and excited to have a direct impact on millions of Americans' lives
Have experience with production environment change management, devops and cloud infrastructure - we use GCP
Have experience building workflows and maintaining CI/CD platforms such as Github Actions, Azure or Jenkins
Have experience with backend software engineering - we use Go
Have experience with BI/analytics tools - BigQuery, SQL
Have experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Statsd, Prometheus, Grafana, Influx, Telegraf, Vector, etc

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Life at Grid

Established in 1989, GRID-Arendal's mission is to create environmental knowledge that encourages positive change. We do this by organizing and transforming available environmental data into credible, science-based information products, delivered through innovative communication tools and capacity building services targeting relevant stakeholders. GRID-Arendal is a UNEP partner and works closely with other UN agencies and partners around the world to connect science to policy. Our goal is to shorten the distance between the emergence of new science and policy actions. We seek to influence thinking and action at the level of the global community on issues that require collective action because we cannot solve many problems through action at the national level alone.

Thrive Here & What We Value1. High levels of autonomy and ownership for team members2. Mission-driven team that's deeply passionate about making a difference in the lives of millions3. Commitment to simplifying high technical problems and effective communication4. Rapid CI/CD process enabling daily production shipping5. Focus on serving users while building a robust business6. Value curiosity, learning, and growth7. Motivated, mission-driven, and pragmatic team8. Dependence on each other to maintain high growth rate9. Ability to identify customer needs and implement solutions quickly10. Previous experience in a fast-paced startup environment