Principal Platform Engineer

Why is this role important to Field Nation?
Embark on a groundbreaking role where you'll help redefine customer experience with our internal development platform and tooling. As a Principal Platform Engineer, you'll lead the vision around our internal development platform which empower software engineers to effortlessly build, deploy, run, and operate their cloud applications. This position requires a passion for operational excellence with a focus on security, reliability, scalability, and fiscal responsibility. Your expertise will help design, build, and support our platform engineering products. Beyond that, you'll serve as a platform ambassador, collaborating across engineering teams to optimize usage and identify areas for continuous improvement. Join us in this dynamic position, where you will not just meet the status quo – you will set the bar higher and redefine it.

What You'll Do

• Set the technology vision and direction for the teams based on the highest value deliverables.
• Enable our engineering teams to focus on delivering value by actively contributing to defining, designing, building, and operating our internal developer platform and tools.
• Serve as a leader and mentor on internal developer platforms, cloud architecture, infrastructure as code, monitoring and alerting, and establish best practices to promote operational excellence.
• Ensure the products we build exceed our customer's expectations by:
• Actively participate in on-call rotation for incident response during working hours for the platform and tools
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages
• Use metrics/data to improve our products continuously
• Ensure we have the right SLIs defined and measured, and continuously ensure we meet or exceed our SLOs
• Identify and implement improvements in the platform architecture and/or tools to reduce toil and/or improve resilience and scalability
• Use solid engineering practices to build long-term solutions to prevent issues from repeating
• Utilize chaos engineering practices to stress and validate that the right observability, monitoring, resilience, and HA/DR commitments are being met.

What You'll Need

• 5+ years writing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure as code and using standard SDLC methodologies for building, testing, deploying, and supporting cloud infrastructure.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE
• 4+ years of experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS) and Docker
• 3+ years of experience writing automation and tools using various scripting or programming languages
• 3+ or more years building, running, and operating cloud-native applications using Docker and one or more programming languages (NodeJS, PHP, or Go preferred)
• 3+ years demonstrating leadership in technical best practices, quality, and delivery. Proven examples of driving change and raising the bar across the team.
• Very strong background and passion for building secure solutions
• Working knowledge of defining and managing SLIs and SLOs and methods for using error budgets to ensure SLOs are met
• Strong knowledge of the English language and clear and crisp communication - both verbal and written
• Solid emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate with others, especially under pressure.

Preferred Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or related field or relevant work experience
• Previous experience lead
• Strong working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, MKS, RDS, and S3. (AWS CloudOps or Solutions Architect certifications preferred)
• Operational experience in networking, certificate management, DNS, content delivery networks, and Identity management
• Experience with observability tools, preferably Datadog
• Experience working in an agile development environment

Working Hours

• 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM (BD Time), Monday to Friday

Salary Range

• BDT 290, ,000 (Monthly)

Other Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and qualification.
• Mobile Bill
• Festival Bonus
• Leave Encashment
• Medical Insurance
• Gratuity Benefit
• Lunch/Dinner - Fully Subsidized
• Transportation Service - Drop Off
• Gym Membership
• Career Development Budget
• Annual performance evaluation and increment.
• Profit Sharing - Field Nation LLC Performance Reward.
• Sound work-life balance - Regular working hours: 8 Hours/Day, 5 Days/Week.
• Flexible leave/vacation policy.
• Friendly work environment.
• Opportunity to work with cross-cultural teams in the US.

Why Field Nation?
At Field Nation, we are breaking the barriers to work and enabling the gig economy. We're a tech company that offers a web-based marketplace solution for buyers and sellers of contract services to simply connect, work, and manage their business. We look for collaborators, innovators, and problem solvers to join us in our common purpose of changing the way work gets done. We were named a Top Workplace by the Star Tribune in 2017, 2018, 2019, and a Top 150 Workplace in 2020. We look to hire extraordinary people and provide them extraordinary benefits.