About the position
We’re looking for an experienced staff engineer to help build Lob’s platform for our next stage of growth. You will have a profound impact on the engineering org’s technical strategy and velocity, ensuring that people are able to move faster through technology. You’ll leverage existing technologies and bring some opinions of your own to the discussion to improve the engineering ecosystem. You will also be a source of coaching and mentoring for our team members and will help us to hire and retain a team of engaged and thriving engineers.
Responsibilities
- Be a chief advisor to the future build of Lob’s platform and its capabilities
- Be responsible for leading projects from design to implementation
- Coordinate and facilitate the execution of strategic initiatives within the team as well as cross functionally
- Coach and mentor other engineers on the team about best practices around platform architecture and general DevOps philosophy and implementation
- Embed with other engineering teams to help adoption of new technologies, and contribute to solving complex problems spanning multiple domains
- Work with engineering teams across the organization, improving tooling, process, internal developer experience, automation, and the entire engineering ecosystem
Requirements
- You are a veteran in the software and platform engineering space with deep experience around cloud services and site reliability
- You are a master of telemetry and observability
- Shipped large, complex, business-impacting software projects for which you were the primary/lead technical designer or architect
- Experience with one or more of the following languages: Javascript, GoLang, Python; Bonus points if GoLang
- Experience with integrating one or more of the following technologies into architectures and best practices with them: Nomad, Terraform, Consul, Datadog, SNS/SQS, Redis, Postgres, Aurora, Lambda, etc
- Experience with at least one public cloud vendor (AWS preferred)
- Grown others around you through coaching, mentoring, and leading and can give examples of how you’ve done it
- You’re Curious, Compassionate, Committed, and Passionate about your craft and can share that with others
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with GoLang
Benefits
- Remote working opportunities in various states
- Equity, perks and competitive benefits