Senior Platform Engineer

At Deta we are trying to push the limits of two critical technologies personal and cloud computing for developers around the world.

As part of our platform engineering team, you ll design, build and scale robust and secure distributed systems that are critical to our products and services: Deta Cloud and Deta Space.

Tasks

• Develop a deep understanding of Deta s existing infrastructure and our planned projects for the future
• Lead the end to end design and delivery of core services; specification, implementation, testing, security, integration, deployment, scaling, maintaining and monitoring of performant services
• Identify and remove substantial technical debt
• Act as an advocate for adoption of best practices in system design and development standards

Requirements

The following profile is a just suggestion, and we will hire platform engineers who don t satisfy all the requirements but they are amazing at something important.

Our core stack is: Go, Kubernetes, AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, etc) and PostgreSQL.

• Seniority: 4+ years experience, having worked with large scale systems with high usage (large number of requests etc.) is a big plus
• Critical thinking around the architecture and design of a system and making it future-proof in accordance to Deta s ambitions
• Ability to take a project from scoping requirements, breaking down tasks and delivering the launch of the project taking full ownership
• In depth knowledge of linux systems, containerization and deployment technologies
• In depth knowledge of cloud services (aws, gcp etc)
• Good knowledge of security, in depth security knowledge is a massive plus
• Good knowledge of computer networks
• Good knowledge of database systems, in depth knowledge of databases is a plus
• Good knowledge of modern web development technologies and practices
• Good technical communication skills: requirements, features and designs

Our Typical Process

• Initial call
• Skills deep dive
• Call with the Deta CEO
• Trial project
• De-brief & references
• Offer

To apply, please share your CV, a cover letter and links to things you've built, if you have any.