Lead Software Engineer - Remote

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the planning and implementation of key initiatives to enhance the stability and reliability of our database infrastructure.
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles to create tools, services, and automation for building, monitoring, and operating complex infrastructure and service-oriented architectures.
• Collaborate on platform‑level initiatives that drive engineering automation and efficiency across the organization.
• Continuously improve, evolve, and innovate the observability of Commerce’s platform architecture.
• Take full ownership of issues and projects, driving them to completion with a high degree of autonomy.
• Participate in planning and technical design sessions, contributing to their successful execution.
• Join the team’s on‑call rotation.

• 5+ years of experience in building software, operating, or supporting large‑scale Linux based service‑oriented architectures, with expertise in SQL systems as a bonus.
• A deep interest in learning and working with new technologies and programming languages.
• Experience in UNIX systems administration, along with proficiency in Golang, Ruby, PHP, or Bash.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and orchestration tools such as Nomad (we use Nomad), Kubernetes, or Amazon ECS.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet (we use Puppet).
• Experience with observability and application performance monitoring (APM) tools, such as Alert manager, ELK, Prometheus, New Relic, Sentry, and Lightstep.
• A software engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help infrastructure and software excel together.
• An excellent communicator who thrives in a geographically distributed team with team members in Austin, San Francisco, Sydney, and remote.
• Obsessive‑compulsive, but in a good way. Your systems and scripts are clean, well‑documented, and comprehensible.

For candidates based in the Austin Metro area, this role follows a hybrid work model, with three days per week in the office to balance focused individual work and meaningful in‑person collaboration.

Pay Transparency Range: $ - $. The national base salary range for this role is posted above in this job post. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as relevant experience, skills, qualifications and geographic location. We also consider internal equity to help ensure fair and consistent pay practices across our teams. Where applicable, this role may also be eligible for variable compensation (such as bonus or commission), equity, and benefits in accordance with local policies.

Details will be shared during the hiring process. We are committed to equitable and transparent pay practices that align to market data, internal equity, and individual contribution.

At Commerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive. We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible hiring experience for all candidates.

If you require accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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