Platform Engineer

Overview

Constructor is an AI-first ecommerce search and discovery platform that helps shoppers find the right products at the right time and enables leading global e-commerce brands to drive meaningful revenue and conversion gains.

Job Description

Our Platform Enablement team is a developer-centric SRE team dedicated to treating our internal engineers as our primary customers. We maintain the foundational layers that impact daily workflows-including observability, CI/CD, and workload orchestration-with the goal of making it simpler and more efficient for teams to deploy and manage their services.

Responsibilities

• - Manage and advance our internal observability ecosystem, including technologies like Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and OpenSearch, to empower teams in troubleshooting their own workloads.
• - Enhance CI/CD workflows and developer utilities using Jenkins and GitHub Actions to optimize the build and deployment lifecycle.
• - Guide the adoption of Kubernetes and establish standardized patterns for deploying various workloads.
• - Collaborate closely with engineering teams to resolve technical bottlenecks and build custom tooling when existing solutions fall short.
• - Contribute to the development and maintenance of our Internal Developer Platform based on Backstage.
• - Develop and support specialized tooling for AI-driven initiatives.

Required Skills

• - More than 5 years of professional experience in SRE or DevOps roles with a clear emphasis on enabling developer success.
• - Strong interpersonal skills and a deep sense of empathy for the challenges faced by software developers.
• - Proven expertise in AWS and Kubernetes environments, coupled with a mastery of Infrastructure as Code via Terraform or similar frameworks.
• - Practical experience managing monitoring stacks and deployment pipelines at scale.
• - A natural inclination toward building automated, reusable systems that favor self-service over manual intervention.
• - A track record of integrating AI tools into your engineering methodology to improve productivity.

Benefits

• - Unlimited vacation time - we strongly encourage all of our employees take at least 3 weeks per year
• - Fully remote team - choose where you live
• - Work from home stipend! We want you to have the resources you need to set up your home office
• - Apple laptops provided for new employees
• - Training and development budget for every employee, refreshed each year
• - Maternity & Paternity leave for qualified employees
• - Work with smart people who will help you grow and make a meaningful impact
• - Regular team offsites to connect and collaborate