We are seeking a talented Cloud System Engineer to join our Platform Cloud Service (PCS) team, based in Madrid or Lausanne office.
The Cloud Services team builds the mission-critical platform that Pix4D web product teams rely on. Our platform is the cornerstone of Pix4D's web strategy and is heavily used by internal and external customers. To achieve high standards of reliability, security, and performance, our agile team embraces pragmatic engineering practices such as code reviews, pair programming, and continuous deployment.
You will play a central role in the architecture, development, delivery, and scaling of our services. Your contribution with other software engineers will help the team increase the resiliency and capacity of our services on the platform. You will face challenges regarding live systems handling very large datasets and lots of processing capacity in the petabyte scale.
As a Cloud engineer, you strive to perform operations invisibly for your customers, turn production incidents into learning, and automation while ensuring the security of the platform remains or improves. You are passionate about the scale of the infrastructure you manage and the resiliency of distributed systems within it. You enjoy sharing good practices via reviews and learning from others.
Key Responsibilities
* Exercise site reliability engineering best practices in operations and infrastructure management.
* Continuously improve the observability of the platform and feedback loops for getting relevant information about potential problems before they happen.
* Work on security, performance, and resiliency aspects of the processing infrastructure powering the Pix4D cloud platform.
* Active participation in the operations of the platform.
* Collaborate with software engineers to build, develop, and deploy new solutions to improve and expand the automation and security of the Pix4D cloud platform.
* Actively participate in engineering discussions to share knowledge and experiences to increase expertise among engineers.
* Investigate technologies to discover new potential applications or improvements.
Requirements
* 4+ years of experience maintaining scalable, resilient, performant, and observable systems.
* Solid background in operating, maintaining, and deploying services on cloud service providers (AWS is a plus).
* AWS certification is a plus.
* Familiarity with security principles, keys management, common security flaws, and best practices is a plus.
* Excellent skills in solving problems, hunting down issues, and fixing them.
* Curious and willing to understand how things work.
* Actively looking for opportunities to make improvements in products, processes, or organization levels.
* Proficient English language skills, written and spoken.
* Perfect fit with Pix4D's values: passionate, positive, collaborative, and respectful attitude.
Recommended Qualifications
* Container orchestrators.
* Infrastructure as code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible.
* Python programming.
* Observability tools usage and configuration like Grafana, Prometheus.