Senior Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure on AWS
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and Git Ops workflows (ArgoCD)
• Write and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform
• Improve observability systems (Grafana, monitoring pipelines)
• Contribute to internal tooling and automation
• Support data infrastructure including Kafka, Snowflake, Hive Metastore, and Postgre
  
  SQL/MySQL databases
• Help migrate workloads from legacy systems (Mesos, Salt) to modern alternatives
• Learn and evolve your skills using the latest and greatest technology tools in a rapidly growing company.
• Learn from the best people around you. We constantly challenge the status quo and invent new ways of building a great product.
• 100% remote. Work anywhere, whether it is remotely in the comfort of your home, in a shared co-working space, in an RV on the beach, or while being a nomad in another country.
• Work on challenging problems, innovate, and positively impact many people's lives while having fun doing it.
• Upper-intermediate to fluent speaking and writing English. Able to have a real-time conversation.
• 5+ years of full-time hands-on Infrastructure/Platform/SRE experience.
• 4+ years of full-time hands-on Terraform (modules, state management) experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on Kubernetes (deployment, troubleshooting) experience.
• 3+ years of full-time hands-on AWS (IAM, networking, RDS, EC2) experience.
• 2+ years of full-time hands-on Python experience.
• Networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, security groups).
• Familiarity with Salt or similar configuration management.
• Knowledge of data infrastructure:
  Kafka, Snowflake, Hive Metastore.
• Experience with Elasticsearch operations.
• Familiarity with Consul for service discovery.
• Experience with Sensu or similar monitoring.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated ability.

The majority of our clients are venture-backed startups at the growth stage. Usually, at this stage, the company already achieved a product-market fit and is looking to expand rapidly. That’s where we bring the best engineering practices, strong architecture, the latest technologies, and consistent processes to help companies scale.

What is the length of your engagements?

Most of our long-term full-time engagements last multiple years. It allows you to evolve your career with the client company taking on more responsibilities.

What’s your company size?

The Right Balance team is 55+ engineers going to 75+ by the end of the year. The current client size team is 105+ people. The timing is great to be a part of a rapidly growing team making meaningful contributions.

What happens if the engagement is completed?

Most of our engagements are long-term in nature. That said, if the current engagement is ramping down, we’ll present you with more long-term opportunities to transition into.

What are your core values?

Client First: we only win when our clients win. We treat client challenges as our own.

Ownership: we embrace responsibility, taking on challenges, getting them to completion, and enjoying getting things done.

Quality: we’re passionate about achieving quality outcomes by applying meticulous attention to detail.