Software Engineer - Infrastructure

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt's valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation.

At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt'stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

Compensation: $160,000 - $270,000 including superannuation, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

Rokt is looking for an experienced software engineer to be part of a team responsible for designing and building the Rokt Infrastructure which provides a a performant, scalable and globally distributed platform as a service. You will become intimate with the architecture of our systems and be responsible for building new platform features, tools and services that ultimately power and scale the Rokt Platform. Ability to quickly learn and become familiar with our Kubernetes-based platform including Istio, Kafka, Spark, ScyllaDB, Flyte.

About the Role:

• Co-design, deploy, manage, optimise, and automate application infrastructure to contribute to Rokt Infrastructure Platform expansion
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams and ensure the platform meets their requirements
• Provide guidelines to engineering teams based on infrastructure principles; enable them to deliver services that are highly available, secure, performant and cost effective
• Enable cost governance by providing full cost transparency to team members; provide recommendations for cost efficiency
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting

About You:

• 5+ years as a software engineer
• Commercial experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Java, C#, Ruby)
• Solid experience with cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and tooling like AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Istio

• Experience building solutions in distributed systems for high volume transaction processing

• Strong organisational and interpersonal skills, with experience instilling a culture of operational maturity
• Experience in defensive programming, circuit breakers, resilience frameworks, fault tolerance, and self-healing mechanisms of services would be amazing