Senior Software Engineer, Data Pipelines

United States Digital Space LLC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 136,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health & dental

Mental health benefits

Family building benefits

Child care & pet benefits

Health Care Savings Account

RRSP plan with company match

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave 18 weeks

Commuter benefits & ride credits

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in Toronto is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to own Production Infrastructure, monitor system health and automate operations at scale.

You will build platforms and services for data pipelines, partnering with cross-functional teams to anticipate customer needs and continually improve platform reliability and efficiency. The role is hybrid, in-office at least 3 days per week, with a base CAD 136k–170k salary.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development, automation and systems engineering.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for production-grade code.
• Experience with data streaming/storage: DynamoDB, Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, S3.
• Experience operating large-scale infrastructure in AWS.
• Hands-on with infra tooling: Terraform, CloudFormation, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze metrics from OS, control planes, and applications to detect faults and improve performance.
• Design, develop and deploy tooling to improve reliability, scalability and efficiency.
• Balance feature speed with reliability to meet service-level objectives.
• Operate and improve Infrastructure using industry best practices and tools.
• Participate in design reviews, platform management and capacity planning with cross-functional teams.
• Document operations processes and insights, and automate repetitive tasks.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents to mitigate impact.

Skills

Golang

Python

Production code

Performance

Bottlenecks

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

Job description

At the company, our purpose is to serve and connect. We aim to achieve this by cultivating a work environment where all team members belong and have the opportunity to thrive.

Our Infrastructure team is passionate about building software to solve problems at massive scale. We do this often, and when we believe our solution is worth sharing with the community, such as Envoy Proxy, we open source our ideas for the benefit of others.

As a Infrastructure Engineer at the company, you will run our Production Infrastructure by monitoring system availability and take a holistic view of our platform health. You will build software and platforms to automate infrastructure platform operations and management. By measuring and monitoring our operations you will seek opportunities to optimize our systems in order to push our platform forward, anticipating our customers' needs in order to continually improve the platform. You will provide the company partner teams with operational support to help them build robust large scale distributed systems.

About the Team

Data Pipelines is at the heart of all critical data flowing through the company supporting hundreds of services that impact millions of drivers and passengers every day. Our team’s mission is to empower the company engineers to self-serve in building and maintaining data pipelines as needed to support products that deliver the world’s best transportation experience. We leverage a variety of technologies to store, stream and manage data making it available to our internal customers.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and analyze metrics from; operating systems; control planes; and applications to assist in fault detection and performance enhancement
• Design, develop and deploy tooling and systems that continually improve the reliability, scalability and efficiency of our platform
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with service-level objectives
• Operate and improve our Infrastructure using industry best practices and tools
• Participate in design and production readiness reviews, platform management and capacity planning ceremonies with cross-functional teams
• Document Infrastructure operations process and insights, identify repeatable actions and ruthlessly automate repetitive tasks
• Participate in our teams on-call rotations, respond to incidents and support other teams mitigate customer impacting events

Experience:

• 5+ years experience working on teams responsible for software development, automation and systems engineering
• Ability to create production ready code in one or more high level languages, such as Golang, Python
• Prior experience with data streaming, storage and management, particularly DynamoDB, Kinesis, Kafka, SQS, S3, GraphQL, Flink, Hive
• Experience operating large scale infrastructure in public cloud environments, such as AWS
• Prior infra experience with infra tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc preferably in an AWS context)
• Experience identifying nascent problems, performance bottlenecks and areas for improvement and developing and executing plans to mitigate them

Benefits:

• Extended health and dental coverage options, along with life insurance and disability benefits
• Mental health benefits
• Family building benefits
• Child care and pet benefits
• Access to a the company funded Health Care Savings Account
• RRSP plan with company match to help save for your future
• In addition to provincial observed holidays, salaried team members are covered under the company's flexible paid time off policy. The policy allows team members to take off as much time as they need (with manager approval). Hourly team members get 15 days paid time off, with an additional day for each year of service
• the company is proud to support new parents with 18 weeks of paid time off, designed as a top-up plan to complement provincial programs. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible.
• Subsidized commuter benefits and the company ride credits

the company is committed to creating an inclusive workforce that fosters belonging. the company believes that every person has a right to equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, pardoned record of offences, or any other basis protected by applicable law or by Company policy. the company also strives for a healthy and safe workplace and strictly prohibits harassment of any kind. Accommodation for persons with disabilities will be provided upon request in accordance with applicable law during the application and hiring process. Please contact your recruiter if you wish to make such a request.

the company highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Team Members will be expected to work in the office at least 3 days per week, including on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. the company considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks the company offers. Additionally, hybrid roles have the flexibility to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year. #Hybrid

The expected base pay range for this position in the Toronto area is CAD $136,000 - CAD $170,000, not inclusive of potential equity offering, bonus or benefits. Salary ranges are dependent on a variety of factors, including qualifications, experience and geographic location. Your recruiter can share more information about the salary range specific to your working location and other factors during the hiring process.

the company may use artificial intelligence to screen applicants, however, the company employees make the ultimate selection and hiring decisions.

This job fills an existing vacancy.