About the position
Pyka is looking for a Software Engineer to join our dedicated and experienced team working on the cloud infrastructure and tooling used by our fleet of aviation robots. You will have the opportunity to work as both a developer and devops engineer, designing, maintaining, and evolving our cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a candidate with demonstrated skills working on building and maintaining cloud based systems and applications and a great track record of delivering results. Some of the current and future projects you will likely contribute to include: * Building data pipelines to extract data from our logs and trigger automated alerts * Maintaining and evolving our infrastructure as code (IaC) configuration and deployment * Designing and deploying data dashboards and visualizations for internal and customer facing use cases * Developing various development, staging, and production environments * Designing and delivering systems that are secure by design and embody the Pyka principles of simplicity and pragmatism
Responsibilities
- Manage and evolve cloud based development tools (CI/CD, artifact registries, etc)
- Develop and maintain our infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment tools (primarily in Pulumi with python)
- Properly configure our cloud infrastructure in a variety of environments and with a strong sense of simplicity and security (primarily in Google Cloud)
- Build new tools and applications for use by internal development and operations teams
- Build dashboards and visualizations of our data for both internal and external use
- Manage and configure databases and datalake type access to our log data (primarily in Google Bigquery)
- Maintain excellent documentation and operational documents like playbooks and usage guides
- Work with the operations and product teams to define and understand requirements for new features
- Plan and maintain forward looking roadmaps for future features
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to members of the team
Requirements
- 3+ professional experience with Python
- Some professional experience with C++ (ideally C++11 or newer)
- Demonstrated experience in one or more areas of: DevOps, SRE, Google Cloud, IaC tools (especially Pulumi), database or datalake administration, full stack development
- Passion for aviation
Benefits
- $139,000 - $171,000 per year base salary + equity. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Salary ranges are subject to change.
- Employer-sponsored health, dental and vision insurance, FSA with employer matching, and 401(k)
- Paid holidays and generous PTO
- Free catered lunch and plenty of snacks
- Opportunity to work on large autonomous aircraft and see them fly
