Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Remote

BigCommerce; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their Cloud Development Environment. In this role, you'll empower engineers to work more efficiently by managing cloud hosted VMs and evolving the provisioning process. You'll collaborate with a distributed team, tackling challenges using modern technologies like GCP, Terraform, and Puppet. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team culture focused on innovation and growth in the e-commerce sector. If you are passionate about technology and enjoy mentoring others, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in building complex products and understanding modern programming principles.
• Comfortable with modern technologies and tools, eager to solve difficult problems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve the Cloud Development Environment for engineers.
• Manage cloud hosted VMs and educate engineers on tool usage.

Skills

Cloud Development Environment

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Ruby

Golang

Terraform

Puppet

CircleCI

Nomad

Consul

Education

Software Engineering Boot Camp

Computer Science Degree

Relevant Work Experience

Tools

Terraform

Packer

Vault

Job description

BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been recognized numerous times for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.

BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast-growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.

BigCommerce is searching for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join the Delivery Acceleration Team. We are currently a small, distributed team that engages with the entire Engineering organization by maintaining BigCommerce’s Cloud Development Environment that enables engineers to work faster and to be less encumbered by technical burdens.

What You’ll Do:

• Maintain and improve BigCommerce’s Cloud Development Environment
• Help engineers become more productive, removing environment concerns as an impediment
• Manage cloud hosted VMs in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Maintain and evolve the VM provisioning process
• Work with technologies and tooling such as GCP, Nomad, Consul, Vault, Terraform, Packer, Puppet, and CircleCI to provide an effective development environment
• Maintain Ruby and Golang services that orchestrate infrastructure
• Educate engineers on tool usage and process improvements
• Respond to support requests for the development environment
• Document technical aspects and user flows of features
• Work and collaborate with a distributed team across the world
• Assist in defining the team’s roadmap
• Work closely with engineers to gather requirements

Who You Are:

• You’re a trusted professional with at least a few years of experience building complex products. You have ideas and opinions and you’ve tested and refined them through your work.
• You’ve completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp, CS, CE, SW, MIS or equivalent degree, or have relevant work experience.
• You are passionate and knowledgeable on modern technologies and tools, without being biased toward a specific technology. You’re more interested in finding the right tools and patterns for the job.
• You’re comfortable dealing with the unknown. You’re eager to tackle difficult problems and to explore unfamiliar tools/technologies.
• You’re an excellent communicator. You can explain not just your ideas, but the reasons behind them, and you’re comfortable to do that in person, over Slack or email, or in a code review.
• You have a solid understanding of modern programming and design principles. You write tested, sustainable code that you are proud of and you are committed to keeping code quality high.
• You lead by example. You own your work, and hold yourself responsible for results. You might still be developing your leadership qualities, but you are mindful of your behavior and how it influences others.
• You love to teach as well as to learn. You don't hesitate to ask for help and are always ready to provide help when needed because you want the whole team to grow.
• You enjoy your work and the team you work with. You think terrible puns are funny and you would poke fun at your manager because they can’t spell.
• You care about improving the day-to-day of your fellow engineers and keep current on modern tools and technologies.

This description is intended to serve as a summary of key duties and responsibilities and may not contain a comprehensive list of activities.

Pay Transparency Range: $110,000.00 - $180,000.00

The exact salary will be dependent on the successful candidate’s location, relevant knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at BigCommerce

Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, 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 will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.