Triple Whale
ecommerce
SeniorCloudBackendEngineer
“Senior Cloud Backend Engineer at Triple Whale. Skills: Cloud backend engineering, Kubernetes, Scalable and reliable systems design, Database management, Observability and monitoring. Deploy and support service infrastructure in Kubernetes. Identify and build new tools and technologies”
Industry & Context.
Solving complex problems; Quickly assess incidents, identify scope/root cause; Understand platform impact; Classify severity and prioritize response appropriately
Located in the New York tri-state area, Participate in a shared on-call rotation (2-3 times per month), On-call rotation covers Friday 7:00 AM ET through Saturday 5:00 PM ET, Understanding of system architecture and cross-service dependencies, Previous real-world experience in production on-call environments
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of experience as an independent backend or infrastructure engineer, Ability to design and build scalable, reliable systems, Hands-on builder mentality — this is a coding role, Experience with Relational and non-relational databases, Experience with Major Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), Experience with Streaming systems, Experience with Scaling large systems, Experience with Message queues, Experience with Monitoring systems like DataDog, Grafana, Groundcover, Experience with CI/CD, Experience with Git
Nice to Have
Kubernetes and Knative (production experience), ClickHouse
What You'll Do.
Deploy and support service infrastructure in Kubernetes
Identify and build new tools and technologies
Scale and optimize multiple databases
Build internal tooling
Provide observability
and visibility across systems
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Help other teams and developers design robust and scalable systems
Communication Scope
Communication skills
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