Senior Platform Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Salaried, full-time
• Salary: Not specified
• Job Type: Senior Platform Engineer

As an early member of our engineering team, you will significantly influence the technical direction of Flow. We are in search of a Senior Platform Engineer who is not only enthusiastic about designing, developing, and deploying robust platform solutions but also committed to ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our system. Your contributions will be foundational in driving Flow towards achieving its goals and making a huge impact on the productivity of our product engineering team. At Flow, our mission is to utilize cutting-edge technology to enhance decision-making processes across the organization. As innovators in our domain, we aim to not only keep pace with the rapidly changing landscape of platform engineering but to be at the forefront of its evolution.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define clear requirements and translate them into software solutions.
• Core contributor to implementing foundational infrastructure, tooling and automation that is scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Elevate site reliability engineering best practices while collaborating with back-end developers.
• Develop service-level tooling to enhance productionization, data migrations, system hardening, and related initiatives.
• Manage and optimize a multi-region environment.
• Be available for on-call activities for infrastructure and services.

Requirements

• Experience: A minimum of 10 years in software engineering, site reliability engineering, or platform engineering.
• Design & Implementation: Ability to design, implement and maintain the tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of the principles of ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and efficiency in distributed systems.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficiency with Terraform.
• Kubernetes: Experience administering Kubernetes.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Experience administering cloud-based infrastructure (GCP preferred).
• Troubleshooting: Experience troubleshooting production issues related to cloud infrastructure, configuration, monitoring, deployments, continuous integration and delivery.
• Tradeoffs: Keen ability to balance elegant design with pragmatic tradeoffs, prioritizing continuous improvement.

Company Information

At Flow, we're on a mission to enhance living experiences across communities by leveraging the power of technology. Our focus is on developing, owning, and managing multifamily apartment buildings, where we implement cutting-edge solutions to provide superior living conditions and foster vibrant communities. Our success is built on a foundation of innovation, high standards, and a team-driven approach, where integrity, loyalty, and trust are paramount. Joining Flow means becoming part of an extraordinary team that values collective achievements over individual accolades. Our team members are passionate about making a meaningful impact, embrace creativity and ambition, and are committed to excellence, urgency, and accountability in all they do.