Senior Software Engineer - Network Automation

Seattle, WA

Job Description:

Compass is building the first modern end-to-end real estate platform by integrating agents, buyers, and sellers through technology. Before Compass, no one has achieved the blend of the Natural Intelligence that hundreds of thousands of enterprising real estate agents bring to this market, with the Artificial Intelligence that cloud, mobile, and AI technologies enable.

As one of the fastest-growing technology companies of our generation, in an industry larger than any other, we have an opportunity and obligation to build a world-class engineering team and the operating platform that will transform the real estate industry. In 2019 we tripled the size of our Product & Engineering team, and are searching for creative and inspiring colleagues at all levels of the engineering organization to join us as we continue to expand in 2020.

At Compass, our mission is to “help everyone find their place in the world.” We celebrate the diverse communities we are a part of, and strive to reflect that diversity in our hiring. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. Our entrepreneurship principles bind us together and inform how we tackle the tremendous challenges ahead.

About the role:

The Network automation team is a mission-critical team within Compass’ Technology Infrastructure organization and is responsible for building tools and software that the rest of Compass depends on. Our mission is to build the tools that enable Compass Engineering to move fast for our customers and make it easy for engineers to develop, deploy, and monitor their software. Networking is complex, our job is to introduce simplicity.

We are looking for experienced engineers who want to be a part of a fast-paced startup and build a next-generation technology platform for the real estate industry.

Network Automation:

• Is automating the maintenance of Compass’ network infrastructure by building self-service tooling available to Compass Engineering
• Provides Compass Engineers with best-in-class tools to monitor their applications’ performance and availability
• Is responsible for many parts of Compass’ tier-1 infrastructure, requiring high-availability and resiliency from failure
• Creates automation that enforces best practices across all of Compass Engineering, freeing other team members from concern and worry
• Provides subject matter expertise on all matters related to networking and communication between services inside the Compass ecosystem

What We’re Looking For:

• 2 - 4+ years using AWS / cloud technologies
• 3 - 5+ years using one of our backend programming languages (node, python, go, java)
• 2+ years experience administering Unix and/or Linux production servers
• Experience with networking technologies (DNS, HTTP, AWS Networking) is a plus
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes is a plus
• Exposure to microservice architectures is a plus
• BS in CS

Our Tools:

• AWS ELB, AWS CloudFront, HAProxy, and NGINX
• AWS VPCs and Security groups
• Docker / Kubernetes / AWS EKS
• DataDog
• Node and go

At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. This means we continually celebrate the diverse community different individuals cultivate. As an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone’s place.

Check out our engineering blog: https://medium.com/compass-true-north