Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Hybrid/Remote

Surreal

DB is looking for a talented Senior Platform Engineer, based in London or US East Coast
. This promises to be an exciting role, with responsibility for building and shaping an industry‑changing database product. You'll have the skills and inspiration to push the boundaries of what is possible to achieve with Surreal

DB Cloud’s goals. You'll work on building, improving, and supporting the world’s fastest‑growing open‑source database‑as‑a‑service platform and supporting the community as we grow.

• Build, orchestrate, and maintain a DB-as-a-Service offering of SurrealDB
• Plan, build, and help deliver the Surreal
  
  DB-as-a-service private cloud offering, leveraging container orchestration tools
• Coordinate improvements and feature requests with product and engineering teams
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system security, stability, reliability, and performance
• Document systems, and automate processes
• Improve engineering standards, testing, tooling, and processes
• Write and review technical proposals
• Contribute to the Surreal
  
  DB documentation
• Support the online community with regards to cloud setup and management
• Contribute to the Surreal
  
  DB blog with posts focussed on cloud and devops.
• Participate in on‑call rotations.
• Actively engage with developers internally, and on social media platforms; and attend in‑person and/or virtual events.

• Proven work experience in this role and an excellent communicator.
• Extensive experience in Linux/Unix administration.
• Production experience with containers and container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform (experience with Pulumi is a plus).
• Experience with Amazon Web Services and/or Google Cloud.
• Experience with developing Kubernetes operators in Go.
• Experience with TiKV a major plus.
• Experience with distributed systems, load balancing, and system monitoring.
• Willingness to adapt to remote work and collaborate with a remote workforce operating in different time zones.

We understand that each candidate brings a unique set of skills and experiences, and we encourage applicants to apply even if you do not meet all the qualifications listed in the job description.

Our London team have a hybrid working approach. We enjoy working and collaborating together, and require people to be in our Oxford Street office three days a week on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.