Cloud Engineer
Do you want to empower organizations to fairly and equitably hire, promote, retain and compensate their employees? Syndio is a Series-C technology company committed to fairness in the workplace. Fueled by investments of $83M from Bessemer Ventures, Voyager Capital and social change organization Emerson Collective, Syndio is investing in growing our team and products.
This is a critical moment when organizations are looking for ways to take tangible action to fight gender and racial bias, and we believe creating diverse and inclusive workplaces for all starts with fair pay.
About the role
As the second member of our new Platform Engineering team, you will be a major contributor to the architecture, design and implementation of our cloud solutions. You will work closely with our development teams to implement, scale and operate our cloud infrastructure.
Core Responsibilities
- Manage, monitor, improve, and experiment with infrastructure in a cloud environment. We use Google Cloud Platform, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- Ensure that all infrastructure is prepared for scale and growth.
- Stay on top of new developments with cloud infrastructure.
- Maintain and improve our IAC (terraform) implementations and ensure they are accessible to all engineers.
- Build and maintain CI/CD process to deploy infrastructure and application changes to multiple environments
- Work closely with the SRE team to ensure infrastructure meets reliability requirements
- Troubleshoot issues across services deployed to environments in GCP
- Provide guidance and technical excellence to cross functional team of software engineers & QA engineers
- Participate in 24/7 on-call duties
- Technologies you are likely to be working with: GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, CircleCI, Codefresh, Python, Go
About you
- 3+ years of experience working with Google Cloud (GCP)
- Scripting and/or programming experience (we use Python and Golang)
- Expertise in Kubernetes and have in depth knowledge with designing, administering, and maintaining kubernetes clusters (GEK) in a production environment
- Experience using configuration management tools (we use Terraform)
- Experience with metrics, monitoring, and visualization tools (we use Datadog)
- You appreciate working in a collaborative team setting.
- You are eager to learn, share knowledge and ideas, and grow with our team.
- You are calm under pressure.
- You are available and willing to step in for emergency response.
- You are relentlessly curious, willing to explore all aspects of the product to identify gaps and opportunities to meet customer needs.
- You want to own and drive initiatives within Syndio that leverage and build your skills and interests.
- You care about and share in our mission to eradicate pay disparity in the workplace.
Role progression
- Within 1 month, you’ll complete a comprehensive and supportive onboarding process and be able to make isolated contributions to the cloud.
- Within 3 months, you’ll have a grasp of the complete set of components (services, tools, configuration, etc.) that make up the product and infrastructure. You will continue to make isolated contributions.
- Within 12 months, you’ll be able to suggest and implement complex changes to the architecture, design, and implementation of our cloud platform
At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.
Employees joining the Syndio team at this early stage of growth will impact this critical social issue and support a growing customer base (including Nordstrom, General Mills, Match Group, and others) to take tangible action on workplace fairness.
As part of our commitment to fair pay, we’ll never ask your salary history. We’ll share the salary range for this position with you during our first conversation. Syndio offers a competitive salary, bonuses, equity, health care (Medical, Dental and Vision), a 401(K) plan and many more benefits! We have a flexible PTO policy and encourage all employees to take time off - we all need it!
Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.