Position: DevOps Engineer (Beeswax/AdTech)
Company: Sigma Software
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Customer:

Our customer is a rapidly growing US AdTech company Beeswax. Founded by three ex-Googlers, it has a highly technical team and an excellent technological culture.

Beeswax (https://www.beeswax.com/about/) provides extremely high-scale Bidder-as-a-Service solutions in advertising technology, works with global businesses, and has been recently recognized as #46 on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies in America, and #5 among all software companies.

Sigma Software works together with Beeswax to enable the delivery of numerous key components of the platform. It is looking for engineers to complement Beeswax team, drive further development of the most transparent advertising system in the world, and process millions of transactions per second.

Project

The project is about building the next generation of real-time bidding software that enables sophisticated marketers to break free from the limitations and constraints of opaque, one-size-fits-all programmatic buying platforms.

As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the performance, reliability, and security of revenue-critical systems serving upwards of 2 million QPS with latency thresholds of 100ms. You will design and maintain the global infrastructure supporting millions of dollars in revenue.

Our ideal candidate will have both systems and software backgrounds. Experience with AWS is a major plus.

We hope you’ll bring your knowledge and expertise and propose projects of your own to help us continually improve.

Responsibilities:

Migrate existing EC2 (vms) and ECS (containerized) applications to Kubernetes. This includes the automation to build containers, helm charts, and deployment automation required to launch and migrate services
Improve monitoring for each application migrated to Kubernetes, building improved dashboards and alerting for each service
Improve Kubernetes platform, exploring additional technologies like service meshes, improved load balancing, autoscaling improvements, taking advantage of spot?eets
Operate a Kubernetes cluster in production
Work with other engineers to rearchitect and rebuild some of the core services their teams rely on to be more e?cient and cost-effective
Standardize approaches to observability so it’s easy for a developer to do the right thing
Requirements:

At least 3 years of experience in the infrastructure space
Experience with building containers and operating those containers on Kubernetes
Experience with production services; you’ve successfully run services that were customer facing and considered issues of reliability and performance
Experience in Observability (monitoring and alerting) at large scale
Hands-on experience with AWS
Upper-Intermediate level of English and above