We're looking for a Principal engineer to join our Operations Engineering Team. The Operations Engineering Team forms the backbone of our core business. We build and iterate over our core platform that handles orders, payments, delivery promises, order tracking, logistics integrations to name a few. Our products are actively used by brand users, Operations, Delights and Finance teams. Our team consists of generalist engineers who work on building REST APIs, Internal tools and Infrastructure for all these users.
• Built a highly available data platform over Kafka that allowed us to break up our monolith into loosely coupled microservices • Automated our DNS configuration and migrated to a new domain with zero downtime
• Revamped our native iOS/Android/Web clients making them more modular while also driving scalability improvements in critical consumer facing micro-services • Migrated our Catalog Ingestion pipeline hosted on EC2 to Docker on ECS while also building a terraform module that allowed 4 other microservices to migrate to ECS in under a week
• Build scalable and loosely coupled services to extend our platform
• Build bulletproof API integrations with third party APIs for various use cases
• Evolve our Infrastructure and add a few more nines to our overall availability
• Have full autonomy and own your code, and decide on the technologies and tools to deliver as well operate large-scale applications on AWS
• Give back to the open source community through contributions on code and blog posts
• This is a startup so everything can change as we experiment with more product improvements
• You have prior experience developing and working on consumer facing web/app products • Hands-on experience on Python. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good on any other language with experience on building web/app based tech products
• Experience in one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado • Thorough knowledge of data stores MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
• You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
• You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
• You have prior Infrastructure automation experience with tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform or Docker
• Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems • You love doing things efficiently. At our company, the work you do will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
• You believe and practice Continuous Improvement for yourself and teams around you