Sr Platform Engineer

Job Link
Spectrum
Company Verified
Budget Fixed Price
Flexibility Full remote
Preferred timezone Central America Standard Time

About this job

Required experience: Senior experience
Role: Software Engineer
Category: IT Jobs

Job description

JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for design, execution, and ongoing support of mission critical platforms that enable reporting, analytics, and engineering needs across the organization. Involved in reviewing and creating innovative solutions. Passionate commitment to ship quickly and the ability to overcome technical issues in a cooperative environment.

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.
  • Build and maintain systems, supporting millions of active users, with hundreds of millions of daily API calls.
  • Develop, modify, enhances and implement the infrastructure and APIs supporting our family of applications.
  • Maintain uptime and uphold SLAs for the platform.
  • Develop the infrastructure architecture strategies, standards, target architectures and roadmaps.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot moderate to complex platform quality issues.
  • Lead or Assist in leading the identification of bottlenecks and bugs, and devising solutions to these problems.
  • Lead or Assist in leading the implementation of security and advocate for data governance in the company.
  • Eye towards reducing compute, bandwidth and storage costs.
  • Ensure alignment to drive cross-platform consistency.


REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
Ability to read, write, speak and understand English.
Solid understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
Strong knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals (object-oriented design, data structures and algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis).
Experience with building cloud-based, highly-automated, near real time data processing platforms.
Demonstrates strong problem-solving skills, especially in complex systems.
Ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Solid foundation in “bridging the divide” between software products and the infrastructure that runs it.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent analytical and troubleshooting abilities.

Education
Bachelor's Degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Related Work Experience / Number of Years
Cloud-based platform engineering role experience / 5
Software development experience / 3
(JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python)
Exposure to SQL and non-relational databases / 3

WORKING CONDITIONS
Office environment

We thank all the candidates who have shown interest in our company, but only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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About the Spectrum

Headquarters

Stamford, United States

Industry

Telecommunications

Website

jobs.spectrum.com

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