Platform Engineer
Remote opportunity based out of Nebraska, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Indiana, Illinois or Ohio with required quarterly travel to Omaha HQ*
Job Description
Workshop is looking for a Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure that sends millions of customer emails. We are on pace to substantially grow this year, but need a motivated engineer to help bring our platform to the next level.
As a Platform Engineer, you will:
- Establish and continuously improve our monitoring systems so incidents are not only detected, but also prevented
- Work to scale infrastructure that is responsible for sending and measuring millions of customer emails in order to support our largest customers and save costs
- Work closely with our product engineering team to support and manage database performance
- Support product engineers to deliver new features quickly and reliably
- Participate in on-call responsibilities
To be successful at this position, you will need to:
- Have experience setting up logging and monitoring internal and third party systems to proactively scale resources and prevent incidents
- Have experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, statsd, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
- Have experience with production services on cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or similar
- Be passionate about optimizing and automating systems when you can
- Be biased towards action by focusing on iterative development and the importance of delivering continuous value to customers
- Communicate and collaborate well with software engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Be flexible, pragmatic and enjoy helping a small team get a big job done
- Experience managing PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch is a plus
Compensation and benefits:
- Highly competitive compensation
- Healthcare
- Stock options
- 401k
- Unlimited vacation
- Flexible work environment
About Workshop
Workshop is a fast growing, venture-backed startup based in Omaha, Nebraska and we’re on a mission to create more happy Mondays for employees everywhere. We build software to help internal communications teams create, send, and measure multi-channel, employee-centric campaigns.