Desired Skills and Experience
- An extensive background in developing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications
- Direct experience developing/running Rails on AWS and are well-versed in standard methodologies and patterns
- Laser focus and be able to design infrastructure solutions for scalability, reliability, high availability, performance, security, software maintainability, and operational excellence
- The ability to “fix the plane while in flight” (not just support greenfield solutions)
- The ability to prioritize existing technical and infrastructure debt, and experience to build and execute a plan to pay it off
- Proven expertise working with others to drive alignment between architecture projects and product roadmap
- Ask tough questions and develop your pragmatic approach to decision-making
- Demonstrate your deep understanding of technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Postgres, Ruby and Rails.
- Continue to grow your skills in running secure and scalable applications for highly available, multi-region, AWS deployments
- Teach and influence engineers and other teammates
- Build incredible software on a highly-effective TEAM
- Ship code several times per day
- This is both a people management & tech management position where you will lead a team of experienced, smart engineers based in downtown SF but form part of a global team.
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