Software Engineer, Platform

At Styra we are creating a new category of services designed to help businesses take control of their cloud operations. We empower people and software to make reliable authorization decisions in dynamic, complex, and large-scale environments with tools that provide direct, real-time visibility and control over applications and infrastructure.

You will collaborate with our close-knit team in myriad aspects of product development, product deployment, tooling, integrations as well as platform monitoring and alerting. From ideation to prototyping, to API design, and all the way to production, you will live on the front line of our services. Your achievements will directly impact our customers, as well as the development team. You will help manage escalations, and help boost the velocity of our product development and CICD pipeline.

The work is ambitious, stimulating, and evolving all of the time. An eye for detail, technical acumen to match, and a relentless focus on our users will be critical as you transform ideas into tangible solutions.

Responsibilities

Working closely with the rest of the Styra team, you will:

  • Help develop and maintain the tooling to manage our CICD pipeline and kubernetes infrastructure. 
  • Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement.
  • Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.
  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
  • Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years with a SaaS platform
  • Experience with distributed systems at scale
  • Experience with kubernetes (container management solutions), containers, CICD, public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc)
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field; or equivalent experience
  • Proven ability to communicate clearly and concisely
  • Experience in one or more of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby.
  • Ability to automate common repetitive tasks.

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