Platform Engineer

Company Overview

Salsify is a key leader in the industry, scaling the next core commerce infrastructure and is on the path from $100M to $500M. Founded in 2012, Salsify helps brand manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in over 80 countries collaborate to win on the digital shelf. As the market leader globally, our products are shopper-centric, frictionless, and create memorable commerce experiences. Our products provide a competitive edge through experiences that improve brand trust, amplify product differentiation and assortments, increase conversion rate, improve profit margins, and speed time to market.

Learn how the world’s largest brands, including Mars, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, Bosch, and GSK, as well as retailers and distributors such as E.Leclerc, Carrefour, Metro, and Intermarché use Salsify everyday to stand out on the digital shelf.

At Salsify, we strive to embody an equitable, diverse, and inclusive company culture. We are united across countries, levels, tenures, and a host of other dimensions of diversity. We understand that while work is just one aspect of who we are, a truly inclusive culture accounts for the full authenticity of every single human being that works here.

About the Opportunity

As a Platform Engineer in our Global Infrastructure team, you will be part of a team whose mission is to provide Salsify with the infrastructure, services, and tools necessary to efficiently scale the platform and support the growth of the engineering organization. Working closely with the other software engineering teams, you will focus on all phases from design to development to maintenance. You will solve complex business and scalability problems and work with the rest of the software engineering team on the direction of the platform.

We deeply value our engineering culture. We strongly emphasize trust, mentorship, and collaboration. We care about building the right thing, the right way, and having fun while we do it. Every member of our team has the freedom and responsibility to make Salsify a great place to work. From architecting and designing to building elegant, scalable software, Salsify empowers our engineers to innovate while solving challenging problems.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Develop infrastructure automation and management solutions that focus on scalability, observability, automation, reliability, security, and a quality environment.
• Design, implement, and maintain solutions that empower engineering to deliver the best software possible while using the infrastructure efficiently and securely.
• Deliver internal infrastructure services such as monitoring, logging, and alerting to internal users.
• Expand and enhance our Kubernetes-based application environment.

You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with orchestration platforms, such as Temporal.io
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure Management systems such as Terraform.
• Practical and demonstrable skill writing testable, maintainable software with a programming language like Go, Ruby, or Python.
• Deep knowledge of core Cloud Hosting concepts such as IAM, DNS, Networking, Storage, etc.
• Deep experience with at least one Cloud Hosting platform (AWS, Azure).
• Experience with container-based runtimes and orchestration such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of networking and distributed computing concepts.
• Experience with the GitOps and Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Experience working as part of a distributed team.
• Excellent written communication skills.

Compensation Philosophy

At Salsify, we maintain 3 core principles as part of our Compensation Philosophy:

• We pay market rates, which are competitive and equitable.
• We pay based on performance and proficiency, not tenure.
• We adjust proactively; when the market moves, we do too.

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