Member of Technical Staff, Automation Engineer

Team: Corporate Engineering

Location: United States

Workplace Type: remote

Technical Skills:

• Rapidly understand and navigate diverse existing codebases across various internal systems.
• Author robust, high-quality, and well-tested solutions that span multiple backend and frontend services.
• Contribute to secure, resilient internal infrastructure from the ground up, and ensure its ongoing health.
• Actively participate in code reviews for changes impacting multiple teams, fostering an efficient, deterministic testing culture with an emphasis on minimizing technical debt across our internal systems.
• Solve complex software design problems that optimize internal operations.

Complexity and Impact of Work:

• Break down large, cross-functional internal projects into manageable tasks, accurately estimating multi-person efforts.
• Ship code and solutions that directly improve the daily efficiency and productivity of global operations teams.
• Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice) in an evolving internal environment.

Organizational Knowledge:

• Jump between and contribute to a wide array of internal systems and operational workflows supporting different business functions.
• Collaborate closely and cross-functionally with Global Operations and other internal stakeholders to understand critical needs and gain alignment on solutions.
• Help scale the team and its impact across the organization.

Communication and Influence

• Influence the technical direction and roadmap for internal systems, ensuring our technology directly addresses operational needs.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, sharing expertise on navigating diverse internal codebases and understanding the strategic operational goals.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

• You have 5+ years of professional experience building and enhancing complex internal software systems.
• You have experience designing, building and deploying cloud native micro-services.
• You are passionate about building automated tests alongside your features.
• You have real world experience building complex distributed systems.
• You enjoy building services from scratch and supporting them over a meaningful period of time.
• You have a genuine interest and pride in code quality and infrastructure.
• You prioritize end-user experience and business value over “cool tech.”
• You developed “computer science fundamentals”, i.e. algorithms, data structures and operating systems (Formal CS degree NOT required).
• You self describe as some combination of the following: creative, humble, ambitious, detail oriented, hard working, trustworthy, eager to learn, methodical, action oriented, and tenacious.

Although not a requirement, bonus points if:

• Professional experience with Python or Go.
• Professional experience with Kubernetes.
• You have experience with system security (e.g. authentication, authorization, identity, API keys).
• You have a background in the finance industry.
• You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)