Quantcast’s publisher engineering team is responsible for developing products to deliver valuable audience insights and products to publishers. As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be responsible for our AWS cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with fellow engineers to help operationalize our applications. You thrive in an environment where independent decision-making based on product requirements is the norm. You care about customer’s experience with your product, and continuously strive to improve SLAs. You love helping developers make deployments easier.

Responsibilities

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Engineer and operate solutions for automation, configuration management, deployment, software troubleshooting, system troubleshooting, etc.   
  • Innovate with new designs and optimizations to improve the performance of existing infrastructure.
  • Build and operate critical monitoring/measurement and alarm/alert systems to ensure we meet our SLAs.
  • Provide technical input into product roadmaps for the team.
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or related field & 5+ years of related work experience.   
  • Proficiency in AWS deployment methodologies. 
  •  Track record of driving operational excellence.   
  • Experience with package-management systems (e.g., RPM) for building and deploying custom software.   
  • Experience with system configuration-management systems (e.g., Puppet, Chef).   
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems is a plus.   
  • Proficiency in multiple scripting languages (e.g., shell, Python, Ruby).   
  • Flexibility to deal with novel and dynamic deployment environments.   
  • Planning, prioritization and time-management skills.