Staff Systems Engineer

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Bellevue, WA +1

This role is for a Staff Systems Engineer focused on infrastructure delivery, reliability, scalability, and monitoring within a cloud-native microservices architecture on GCP. Responsibilities include implementing automation, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting critical applications. The role requires experience with containerization (Kubernetes), cloud platforms (GCP), and various operating systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture (GCP)
  2. Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
  3. Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management
  4. Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
  5. Help development team with code deployments in all environments

Skills

Required

  • Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
  • Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications
  • A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, NodeJs, etc)
  • Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes)
  • Expertise with AWS, GCP or Azure (GCP is a plus)
  • Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
  • Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonarcube, Docker, Helm)
  • Operational (e.g. HA/Backups) RDBMS and NoSQL experience (e.g. PostgreSQL, Couchbase, BigQuery)
  • Bachelor or master’s degree in CS, or equivalent practical experience
  • Effective communication skills