About the position
We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. Rokt is the global leader in ecommerce, unlocking real-time relevance in the moment that matters most. Rokt’s AI Brain and ecommerce Network powers billions of transactions connecting hundreds of millions of customers and is trusted to do this by the world’s leading companies. We are a team of builders helping smart businesses find innovative ways to meet customer needs and generate incremental revenue. Leading companies drive 10-50% of additional revenue—and often all their profits—from the extra products or services they sell. This economic edge unleashes a world of possibilities for growth and innovation. The Rokt engineering team builds best-in-class ecommerce technology that provides personalized and relevant experiences for customers globally and empowers marketers with sophisticated, AI-driven tooling to understand consumers better. Our bespoke platform handles millions of transactions per day. It considers billions of data points which give engineers the opportunity to build technology at scale, collaborate across teams and gain exposure to a wide range of technology. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Compute & Network Infrastructure).
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage EKS clusters and ECR registries (supporting both Linux and macOS agents)
- Own the full suite of EKS core and observability addons—CSI/CNI/CoreDNS, Cert-Manager, Gatekeeper, Ingress controllers, Karpenter, KEDA, Argo Rollouts, External Secrets, Velero, YuniKorn scheduler, and image swapper
- Enable batch workloads on Kubernetes by operating our Spark Gateway API and Spark Operator, and support Spark RBAC, scheduling queues, and history servers
- Build and maintain our workflow engine and related automation for orchestration of complex data and ML pipelines
- Architect and maintain network foundations—VPCs, subnets, peering, edge gateways, and Istio service mesh—to ensure secure, high-performance connectivity across regions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering roles, with a focus on Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
- Deep expertise in AWS EKS, ECR, container orchestration (Helm, Argo), and core Kubernetes addons
- Hands-on mastery of Spark on Kubernetes (Gateway, Operator) and workflow schedulers like Flyte or Airflow
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, Terraform) and proficiency with Linux administration
- Clear communicator who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and can evangelize best practices across teams
- Familiarity with network topology (VPCs, peering, Istio)
Benefits
- Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual training allowance
- Become a shareholder. Every Rokt’star gets equity in the company
- Enjoy catered lunch every day and healthy snacks in the office.
- Access generous retirement plans like a 4% dollar-for-dollar 401K matching plan and great health benefits for you and your dependents.
- Dog-friendly office
- Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
- Work with the greatest talent in town
- See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London
- Flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.
