Desired Skills and Experience
- New standalone sites for brands such as Top Knot and Nifty
- Localized features for our global audiences
- New experiences for our core products, such as quizzes
- Lead technical initiatives and manage career growth for your team
- Work collaboratively with other teams across tech; other technical leaders and design/product/qa
- Own the output and day-to-day operations of your team
- Help translate business goals to technical projects
- Hands on with code. Code reviews; architecture reviews
- You adapt quickly to change.
- You empathize with BuzzFeed audiences.
- You are a compassionate leader who has experience training & skill building.
- You excel at leading and delivering on complex projects.
- You are diligent when it comes to writing documentation.
- You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity.
- You love discovering solutions to complex problems.
- You work collaboratively and understand the importance of cross-functional communication to effectively deliver products
- Python / Go
- AWS, GCP
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- Source Control (Git)
- Databases (MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, Redshift, BigQuery, ElasticSearch)
- Infrastructure Tools (Docker, ECS, Terraform)
- Messaging systems (NSQ)
- Monitoring / Instrumentation (Nagios, DataDog, StatsD)
- Frontend (React, Redux, T3.js, Sass)
- Service Oriented Architecture
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