Stack Overflow

Staff Platform Engineer

Remote US
Azure AWS
Description

Every developer has a tab open on Stack Overflow.  

We are one of the most popular websites in the world - a community-based space focused on increasing productivity, decreasing cycle times, accelerating time to market, and protecting institutional knowledge. 

Innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We embrace collaboration, transparency, and believe in leading with empathy; creating an environment where every Stacker knows they belong. We embrace that the unique contributions and points of view of all Stackers contribute to our success.

We are a Best Company to Work For, in addition to being recognized for Best Company Leadership, Best Company Happiness, Best Company Perks and Benefits, Best Company Work-Life Balance, Best Company Compensation, and Best Company Outlook.

We are a remote-first company with Hiring HUBs based in the US, Canada, UK, and Germany.

As a Staff Engineer focused on our platform architecture, you’ll join a cross-disciplinary team of SREs, software engineers, and technical product managers who are building the tooling and systems that will enable Stack Overflow to build, configure, deploy, manage, and operate our new and existing systems. You’ll provide technical leadership and guidance to ensure alignment with organizational goals and empower Stack Overflow’s engineering teams to deliver good outcomes. The contributions you’ll make will have a far-reaching impact and help shape the future of the world’s largest community of developers.

We expect to see:

  • Strong programming skills in your language of choice (not necessarily ours) and a track record of getting stuff done with an emphasis on mentoring and technical leadership.
  • Prior experience developing solutions that other engineering teams use every day. You've built tooling that allows your colleagues to deliver and manage solutions for on-premises and cloud environments.
  • Prior experience successfully migrating infrastructure and systems to a cloud environment (Azure, AWS, or Google).
  • Practical working knowledge of container management solutions, container build pipelines, 12 Factor Application principles, internal and public traffic routing, configuration and secrets management, and continuous deployment.
  • 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies such as Scrum, XP, or Kanban. You’ve been on teams that practice Agile and you understand why it’s beneficial for the team.
  • Self-motivating, self-directing, and a great communicator (written and oral). This does not mean that you need to speak or write English perfectly! You thrive in an environment that grants you a lot of autonomy to explore creative solutions.
  • Excellent problem solving skills. You excel at analyzing and solving problems using technology.
  • Experience mentoring less-experienced developers. You know how to build skills and teach others in an empathetic and kind way.
  • Experience with supporting high scale, end-user applications. Skills working with large amounts of data, feature flagging, and A/B testing of features are a plus.

We like to see (but not required):

  • Experience working remotely and/or working with teams that are distributed geographically.
  • An active Stack Overflow profile, open source code, example projects that you're proud of (whether open source or worked on at a previous job), or any other evidence of your passion for building great software.
  • Knowledge of how Stack Overflow works from our blog and podcasts. #LI-Remote #BI-Remote #LI-SG1

What you’ll get in return:

  • Competitive Base Salary 
  • Generous paid vacation
  • Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and unlimited sick days
  • Equity (RSUs) for all employees at all levels
  • Industry-leading health benefits that are applicable per country of residence for all our full-time employees
  • Company-paid Life Insurance
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Home Internet stipend
  • Professional allocation for your growth and development
  • One-time allowance to assist with your home office setup
  • Company-paid access to Calm, Bravely, LinkedIn Learning, MyAcademy and Overdrive

Stack Overflow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We value diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and these pillars are at the heart of how we work together here at Stack. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying. 

For individuals based in California, and other locations where required, we will consider employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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