Senior Platform Engineer II, Kubernetes

LTK’s mission is to empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success. We have a huge opportunity ahead of us and we’re looking for team members who want to create, innovate and disrupt an industry. 

We empower our team members to drive innovation, create value, and continue to spearhead the creation of this industry — a game changer when it comes to career growth.

Title: Senior Platform Engineer II, Kubernetes

Location: Fully remote  #LI-Remote

About the role

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join LTK’s Platform team with Kubernetes expertise. The LTK Foundation and Platform Engineering team is responsible for building and maintaining LTK’s cloud infrastructure and development platform. The team delivers various services and libraries, including automation and configuration management, monitoring and alerting, enterprise infrastructure administration, identity management, and event orchestration. Each member of the LTK Platform team partners directly with our software development teams to ensure maximum uptime and the ability to scale and deliver exceptional features in a secure, timely, and consistent manner. 

How you will make an impact

• Build developer-facing tooling and infrastructure that promotes developer satisfaction and improves development velocity
• Define, document and build golden paths for teams to build services in a scalable, secure way
• Work with teams across the company to gather requirements, support and drive projects forward
• Provide guidance and unblock others on the team while helping others grow through code reviews
• Make good, informed decisions around technical debt and tradeoffs
• Regularly think about the scrum team's processes and share complex solutions for improvements with peers and management 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience
• Experience building developer platforms/frameworks (Backstage.io, Cortex, Humanitec, score.dev et al.) for companies past the start-up stage
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience migrating workloads onto Kubernetes/EKS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Github Actions, Gitlab, Circle CI, Argo, Kargo
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, system monitors, and log aggregation services 
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation and Teraform
• Knowledge of observability best practices and logging/monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk, New Relic, Edge Delta, Prometheus, et al.
• Experience with AWS systems such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS (among others).
• Experience writing services in Go, Python, C++ or Java
• Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
• Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth)
• Expertise in working with various data storage technologies, including relational and NoSQL databases 
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and related technologies.
• Familiarity with agile methods and familiarity with Scrum or Kanban frameworks
• Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day
• Proven experience in influencing and mentoring other members of the Engineering team

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What we offer

• The opportunity to be part of the leading global company in creator commerce
• A remote-first, productivity-first environment
• Competitive compensation and benefits package to meet the needs of you and your family
• 401(k) with LTK company matching
• Medical Insurance, Vision Insurance, Dental Insurance
• Paid Maternity Leave and Paid Paternity Leave
• Summer Fridays and Flexible PTO

Founded in 2011, LTK is the global technology platform purpose-built to empower lifestyle creators to monetize their content. The full-service platform connects brands, creators, and shoppers with a world-class shopping app and trusted tools and technology that make content instantly shoppable. Today, premium lifestyle creators in 160+ countries drive more than $5 billion+ in annual retail sales through their LTK Shop profiles. More than 40 million consumers turn to LTK Shops in the LTK shopping platform each month to find inspiration and instantly shop the styles recommended by their favorite creators. More than 8,000 retailers and 1M brands partner with LTK to gain access to its global creator network for content that converts against performance-driven, cross-channel KPIs. LTK is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and currently operates on five continents.

To empower the world’s premium lifestyle Creators to achieve maximum economic success.

• Here to win

• Commit to the journey
• Work well

LTK believes diversity, equity, and inclusion are fundamental obligations that strengthen our team. We employ a diverse, multi-disciplinary team to build a meaningful company and culture. 

For US-Based Roles:  We are not offering new sponsorships opportunities at this time for persons requiring employment visas, such as an H-1B;  authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.

Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of LTK are considered the property of LTK and are not subject to payment of agency fees.

LTK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. #LI-Remote