Infrastructure Engineer

About Airship

At the dawn of mobile apps, Airship powered the first commercial messages and then expanded its data-led approach to all re-engagement channels (mobile wallet, SMS, email), app UX experimentation and feature release management.

Now, with Airship App Experience Platform (AXP), brands can create and adapt native app experiences on their own — with no ongoing developer support or app updates required.

Having powered trillions of mobile app interactions for thousands of global brands, Airship is proud to be at the forefront of what has become the digital center of customer experience, loyalty and monetization — mobile app experience (MAX).

Learn more about Airship here: Airship Newsroom + Airship Customers

About The Team

Powering these products is a large scale distributed data system supporting streaming and batch workloads. The Infrastructure Team builds and maintains the bedrock for these systems, providing tooling, automation, expertise, and implementation for core infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability systems.

About the Role

Airship is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help build, maintain, and support the Cloud infrastructure that runs our high-throughput distributed architecture. Working with the Infrastructure team and collaborating with teams across the organization, you will:

• Deploy and maintain core cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
• Build and maintain automation and monitoring infrastructure
• Advise, monitor, and support company efforts around cost, security, disaster recovery, and compliance

Requirements

You should have at least

• 2-3 years of Linux and command line experience
• Programming/automation experience (Python, Go, Java, bash, etc)
• Experience working in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services
• Knowledge and experience with networking fundamentals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work remotely in close collaboration with a team

Bonus Points

A good candidate would also have some of the following experience/skills

• Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
• Production usage of Python, Java, Go, or other general purpose programming language
• Web/network security, including TLS, permissions management, vulnerability management, security best practices, etc
• Database and storage technologies, including RDBMS like Postgres/Mysql, columnar stores like Bigtable/Cassandra, and block storage like GCS/S3
• Container and container orchestration systems, including Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD systems, including Github Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker, etc.

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