Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Storyblocks is a content company providing video, audio, images, and creative tools through a subscription model. The Platforms Engineer will build and operate AWS infrastructure, maintain CI/CD pipelines, improve observability, and enhance developer experience across a microservices platform. The role also involves partnering with engineering teams and growing into ownership of complex platform projects.
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and scale AWS infrastructure that supports our microservices platform
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping fast, reliable, and safe
- Build reusable, templated configuration (Helm charts, CircleCI orbs) so teams get consistent, standardized deployments and pipelines instead of reinventing them
- Manage infrastructure through code, treating infra changes with the same rigor as application code
- Improve observability and monitoring so teams can understand and debug their systems in production
- Partner with product engineering teams, translating platform concepts into practical guidance and cutting friction from their day-to-day work
- Make and document thoughtful technical trade-offs, and grow into leading complex platform projects end to end
Skills
- You're comfortable working in AWS and know your way around its core services
- You've used observability or monitoring tools (like Datadog) to understand what your systems are doing
- You're handy with at least one scripting or programming language
- You've worked with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, or you're eager to
- You've helped run and scale infrastructure, and you're excited to grow into bigger, higher-traffic systems
- You've built or maintained CI/CD pipelines
- You care about doing right by the engineers who depend on your work, and you keep developer experience front of mind
- You can explain a gnarly platform concept to someone who doesn't live in infrastructure all day
- You think through trade-offs and can walk someone through your reasoning
- You take ownership of your work, and you're ready to grow into leading bigger, more complex projects
- You're curious and love to learn. You pick up new tools and skills on your own, and you use AI to sharpen and speed up your work
- Storyblocks' engineering and company values resonate with you
- Experience with Helm and Kubernetes (or other container orchestration), and tools like ArgoCD, Argo Rollouts, and Istio
- Hands-on with CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms
- Experience with Datadog or another APM/observability tool
- Working knowledge of databases (relational or NoSQL): provisioning, tuning, or operating them
- Experience designing and deploying microservices
- General knowledge of security, release engineering, or QA
Benefits
- 401(k) retirement plan with both a Traditional and Roth 401(k) and a company match
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums covered 100% for you and your dependents
- Birthing parents receive up to 12 weeks of paid medical recovery leave plus 4 weeks of paid bonding leave (up to 16 weeks total)
- Non-birthing parents receive 4 weeks of paid bonding leave
- Parents welcoming a child through adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement receive up to 12 weeks of paid bonding leave
- Unlimited vacation
- Two company-wide week breaks in July and December
- Fully remote work
- Company and team events
- Company-sponsored mentorship and growth
- Encouragement to attend meetups, with the company happy to host them as well
- A leadership coach, on staff, available to all employees to enhance professional development
- A financial wellness program
- A subscription service that offers unlimited deliveries from thousands of eligible restaurants with $0 delivery
- A recognition and rewards program that celebrates employees' accomplishments
- Casual work environment
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