Senior Platform Engineer
Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Hybrid/Remote
Description
SurrealDB is looking for a talented Senior Platform Engineer, based in London or US East Coast. This promises to be an exciting role, with responsibility for building and shaping an industry-changing database product. You'll have the skills and inspiration to push the boundaries of what is possible to achieve with SurrealDB Cloud's goals. You'll work on building, improving, and supporting the world's fastest-growing open-source database-as-a-service platform and supporting the community as we grow.
What you will do
- Build, orchestrate, and maintain a DB-as-a-Service offering of SurrealDB
- Plan, build, and help deliver the SurrealDB-as-a-service private cloud offering, leveraging container orchestration tools
- Coordinate improvements and feature requests with product and engineering teams
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system security, stability, reliability, and performance
- Document systems, and automate processes
- Improve engineering standards, testing, tooling, and processes
- Write and review technical proposals
- Contribute to the SurrealDB documentation
- Support the online community with regards to cloud setup and management
- Contribute to the SurrealDB blog with posts focused on cloud and devops.
- Participate in on call rotations.
- Actively engage with developers internally, and on social media platforms; and attend in person and/or virtual events.
About you
- Proven work experience in this role and an excellent communicator.
- Extensive experience in Linux/Unix administration.
- Production experience with containers and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform (experience with Pulumi is a plus).
- Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud.
- Experience with developing Kubernetes operators in Go.
- Experience with TiKV a major plus.
- Experience with distributed systems, load balancing, and system monitoring.
- Willingness to adapt to remote work and collaborate with a remote workforce operating in different time zones.
Our London team have a hybrid working approach. We enjoy working and collaborating together, and require people to be in our Oxford Street office three days a week on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.