Sr Platform Engineer (Latin America only)

Who we are

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We help connect you to your ideal remote job and to work alongside other smart people. We believe in transparency and we seek people with ambition who are team players, collaborative, and who care more about building stellar products that impact the world than just a job.

Project Description

Our client, a US company that builds web & mobile software for the property inspection industry, is looking for a Sr Platform Engineer to develop, maintain, and optimize the company's software platform.

This position blends software development with system operations, requiring skills in coding, infrastructure management, and system performance monitoring.
Our client values someone who can communicate well - internally and with customers, written and verbal, Is self-motivated and eager to produce results, Can rapidly task-switch between deep work building the next big feature and helping their Client Success team debug an issue,

The ideal applicant will immediately get productive in our client´s tech stack, which includes Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, Firebase, Google Cloud Functions, Postgres, Flutter, Heroku, AWS (S3, Cloudfront, & Lambda), and jQuery.

Role & Responsibilities

As a Sr Platform Engineer you'll ensure platform scalability, reliability, and security, while automating deployment and managing CI/CD pipelines. Collaborating with various teams, your technical expertise will drive continual platform improvements, emphasizing innovation and quality. This role is ideal for those passionate about creating efficient, user-centric technology solutions.

The candidate will be responsible for:

• Implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Own the entire lifecycle of a ticket: scoping, development, test, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements

• Performing platform upgrades (Ruby, Rails, Postgres etc) and code review of other team members

• Monitoring and performance tuning (at architecture and app level)

• Identifying bottlenecks and implementing solutions to improve performance.

• Implement code that is clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others

• Write and improve our client´s documentation and development processes

• Make contributions to our client´s core values, processes, and anything else that can be improved

• The focus will primarily be on our client´s Rails web app, but you will be rotated into other code bases as well.

Requirements

Must have

• At least 5 years of professional experience as a Platform, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineer 
• At least 5 years of professional experience with DevOps with Linux/Docker/CI/CD

• At least 5 years of experience with 

  cloud platforms (Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud)

Nice to have

• Professional experience with mobile app development (Flutter) is a plus.

Location

100% Remote LATAM (Latin America) only

Testing

At FullStackRemote, we require that you go through a Technical test (including a code test) as part of the application process to join our Global Talent Network.

Type of Position

• This position requires the candidate to become a FTE (full-time, permanent hire)

• This position requires an overlap with US MST - The more you can overlap, the better

• The company anticipates this position to be a long-term engagement for the ideal candidate

Salary

The salary is in USD and is dependent on experience and abilities.


Testing

At FullStackRemote, we require that you go through a video technical interview + a code test as part of our vetting process.