Full Stack Engineer opening at Porter

TechTwitter.io; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top-of-market compensation

Medical, vision, dental insurance

401k

6 weeks PTO

6 weeks remote work

Free lunch and office snacks

Job summary

Porter is the cloud platform that abstracts Kubernetes to let engineering teams run anything, anywhere. We are hiring a full stack engineer fluent in React/TypeScript, comfortable working across the Go backend and Kubernetes/Helm APIs.

You will push critical code daily and contribute to architectural decisions as we expand our PaaS capabilities. The role involves building features on the Porter dashboard, enhancing the Go API, and creating applets for MySQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and other

Qualifications

• Fluency with React/TypeScript is expected.
• Willingness to learn Go and Kubernetes.
• Ability to work across the stack (PaaS on Kubernetes).
• Comfort with rapid, daily code contributions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain features on the Porter dashboard.
• Develop Go API to support Kubernetes/Helm behaviors.
• Create applets/add-ons for MySQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Improve UI/UX and dashboard organization.
• Raise code quality and engineering culture.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Go

Kubernetes

Helm

Tools

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Porter is the cloud platform for modern tech companies. We provide the power of the cloud without the complexity and cost, allowing the next generation of builders to run anything, anywhere. Traditional engineering orgs have to allocate a lot of time and money to managing AWS, Azure, and GCP, and quickly become locked in. We enable top engineering teams to instantly create production-grade infrastructure on any cloud provider, deploy their application code, and easily monitor and manage it, unlocking them to focus on what they do best – building a great product. We are a company that cares about building something beautiful. We are not afraid of tackling the hardest problems. We are looking for people who want to do the best work of their lives while building the future of tech.

The Role:

We're looking for a full stack engineer who is fluent in React/Typescript but comfortable working across the entire stack. This includes building on top of our Go backend as well as working directly with the Kubernetes and Helm APIs. Since Porter is a PaaS that abstracts the complexity of Kubernetes, deeply considered design/architectural decisions are the lifeblood of our platform. The best implementation is not always the most obvious one, so an appetite for rigorously evaluating the tradeoffs of different options is essential. You will be expected to push critical code on a daily basis while also working on larger features that constantly expand the capabilities of the platform.

You will:

• Build and maintain new features on the Porter dashboard
• Develop our Go API to accommodate additional k8s/Helm behaviors
• Create applets and add-ons for popular technologies like MySQL, Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
• Improve the UI and organization of the dashboard (strong UI/UX background is a nice to have)
• Raise the standard for code quality and our engineering culture

Who we're looking for:

We value rate of learning above all else. Full stack experience and fluency with React/TypeScript is expected, but less familiarity with Go/Kubernetes is fine if you're a voracious and self-directed learner. Infrastructure management isn't rocket science, but it does involve thinking and working across multiple levels of abstraction at once. If the idea of wrangling that complexity is exciting and not daunting to you, we'd love to talk. As is the case with most early-stage startups, you should be comfortable with regularly shifting priorities and iterating at a very high (daily) velocity.

Some of the technical challenges we face:

• Abstracting Kubernetes - any PaaS spans a variety of use cases, so building a consistent and useful layer of abstraction requires constant awareness of the needs of many user profiles.
• Cloud Agnosticism - one of Porter's main benefits is that you get the same interface for managing services regardless of where you host. Our job is to reduce multi-cloud infrastructure complexity to a unified interface.
• Many Integrations - our philosophy is to never reinvent the wheel, so we leverage tools like GitHub Actions, existing container registries, and the APIs of various cloud providers. An issue with any one of these integrations interrupts functionality, so properly handling interactions with numerous services is crucial.

Sample projects you might work on:

• Build a dashboard that gives an infra-level overview of machines being managed by Porter and their current resource utilization
• Implement live email/Slack alerts for successful or failed deployments
• Develop a deployment pipeline builder that lets users seamlessly promote services across multiple clusters and environments (ex: dev -> staging -> prod)
• Create one-click deployable applets for popular technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka, Cassandra, etc.)

Tech stack:

• Web: React (styled-components), TypeScript
• Backend: Go, Kubernetes + Helm APIs, Postgres, Redis
• Infrastructure: AWS, GCP

What we offer:

• Top-of-market compensation that grows with the company
• Medical, vision, dental insurance
• 401k
• 6 weeks of PTO, 6 weeks of remote work
• Free lunch and office snacks

We are a fully in-person team located in NYC.