Platform Engineer

Vortexa; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock-options

Private Health Insurance

Dental and Vision cover

401k with company match

Global Volunteering Policy

Job summary

A leading energy data company in Austin is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to enhance developer experience and maintain a robust platform. You will design fault-tolerant infrastructure, optimize AWS costs, and ensure uptime using technologies like Kubernetes and Kafka. Ideal candidates will have experience in troubleshooting, cloud-native design, and be familiar with Go. This role offers diverse benefits including stock options and private health insurance.

Qualifications

• Experience in creating developer-friendly infrastructure.
• Proficient in troubleshooting unfamiliar code.
• AWS power user with extensive Kafka knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable and fault-tolerant infrastructure.
• Deploy software independently and frequently.
• Provide excellent developer tooling and experience.

Skills

Infrastructure design

Troubleshooting code

Kubernetes expertise

AWS proficiency

Apache Kafka knowledge

ElasticSearch usage

Terraform fluency

Cloud-native application design

Tools

Kubernetes

Golang

Kafka

AWS

Job description

Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

The Challenge
Ingesting data from multiple external vastly different sources at hundreds of rich data points per second, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex and complicated prediction and forecasting AI models while coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process and presenting the result through a nimble low-latency SaaS solution used by customers around the globe is no small feat of science and engineering. This processing requires a highly reliable, stable, fault-tolerant infrastructure that can withstand multiple and varied uses and abuses by data analysts, data scientists, industry experts, and the end-users. Fast product iteration cycles necessitate a platform that allows engineers to deploy frequently, independently, and without in-depth knowledge of infrastructure complexities.

The Data Services Team is responsible for the developer platform, and the impressive Amazon AWS estate Vortexa uses to achieve its purpose. This includes two major areas of concern: infrastructure availability, security and costs, as well as developer experience. We use a wide variety of technologies like Kubernetes, Kubevela, Golang, Kafka, Opensearch, Airflow, Athena, and others.

You will be a key member of the small, globally distributed team, instrumental in assessing current technologies, delivering the best possible engineering experience with the shortest development iterations, helping crystallise, converge and standardise technology stacks and implementing the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring 100% uptime, availability, and fault-tolerance of every component of the platform, while optimising AWS costs. You will provide your customers such as data analysts, data scientists, and other engineers with a delightful developer experience tooling boosting their productivity, and allowing them to concentrate on business logic. You will codify and automate any operational knowledge gathered so that R&D can focus purely on creating value for our customers.

Requirements
You Are:

• Determined to create infrastructure that gets out of the way with a great developer experience
• Excellent at troubleshooting unfamiliar code
• Striving to be more skilled than Google with Kubernetes
• An AWS power user and evangelist
• Familiar with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams - deployment, monitoring, resiliency, fault-tolerance, cluster planning and operations, applications debugging
• Experienced with ElasticSearch operations and usage
• Fluent in Terraform, and Go
• Familiar with cloud-native application design and deployment
• Not afraid of challenges and infrastructure troubleshooting
• A 'can-do' person - 'I've done my bit' has no place at Vortexa

Awesome If You:

• Are familiar with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools
• Understand data lakes like Parquet, Orc, Athena

Benefits

• Stock-options in a fast-growing, high-potential business
• A vibrant and diverse workplace
• An open, collaborative, and supportive working culture built on merit, which celebrates creative thinking and 'getting things done.'
• The opportunity to work with AI-driven technology in a scale-up environment with commodity trading experts
• 401k with up to 2% contributions matched by Vortexa
• Private Health Insurance offered via Blue Cross Shield
• Dental and Vision cover offered via Guardian
• Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good' and feel better