Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Kustomer : Job Details

About KustomerKustomer is the industry-leading conversational CRM platform perfecting every customer experience. Built with intelligent tools such as AI and Automation, no code-configuration and a connected data platform that unifies data from multiple sources through a single timeline, Kustomer empowers businesses to operate with greater efficiency and deliver more personalized service to customers across any channel, making every interaction more meaningful and memorable. Today, Kustomer is the core platform for some of the leading customer service brands like Ring, Glovo, Away Travel, Priceline and Sweetgreen.Kustomer was founded in 2015 by serial entrepreneurs Brad Birnbaum and Jeremy Suriel and has raised over $200M in funding backed by leading VCs. Meta announced its intention to acquire Kustomer in 2020 and completed the transaction in 2022. Kustomer joined Meta's Business Messaging Group to transform the way people and businesses communicate through modern messaging channels. In 2023, Kustomer spun out from Meta as a standalone company backed by original partners, Battery, Redpoint and Boldstart Ventures, who have invested $60M in capital, ensuring Kustomer's growth and success for many years to come.Our Krew is made up of passionate and collaborative people who really care about what they do and the people they help. We look for people who are dedicated to enhancing the customer service experience for everyone involved, as it's the core of what we do. We're growing our business with no plans of slowing down. We actively seek individuals who want to learn and be challenged every day. We have also transitioned to a remote friendly company, with Krew members located throughout the U.S. coming together for Kamp Kustomer each year.About the RoleAs an infrastructure engineer at Kustomer, you will be responsible for building systems and abstractions that will be used by teams across the company. You will join a team of experienced engineers and have ample opportunities to continue learning and growing. This role sits on our Foundation team - this team's responsibilities include the critical back-end systems, cloud infrastructure, observability metrics, and alerting. We believe in ownership and are looking for people driven to continuously ship new, impactful features and capabilities for our users. This role's responsibilities are divided into 50% application and 50% infrastructure and may vary depending on a number of factors.What You'll Do:Analyze, design, develop, maintain and improve software infrastructure and platform to expand its automation capabilitiesAutomate the deployment of testing, staging, and production environmentsImprove the efficiency of development testingMeasure, report and drive improvements on scalability, performance, and availabilityRespond to on-call alerts when the system is experiencing issuesRefactor platform services and code as-neededLead, plan, and execute large scale system migrationsParticipate in cross-team initiatives to drive engineering best-practicesConduct code, architecture, and infrastructure reviews across the platformProvide education and support to the engineering team in systems architecture designStaying involved in initiatives around on-call rotations, application performance monitoring, development environments, and continuous integration and delivery pipelines.Lead various scalability initiatives across the platform and infrastructureCollaborate with the InfoSec team to drive compliance, observability and automation for the security of our platformWork closely with the Security team to optimize infrastructure in order to satisfy compliance requirementsManage secrets and automated key rotationsManage security vulnerabilities and upgrade schedules for EOL (End of Life) softwareManage CDN, firewall rules, and other tools to mitigate attacks and threatsOur Tech Stack:Javascript (React/node.js), GoAWS Cloud, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticsearchMinimum requirements:Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience8+ years experience building and managing large scale, highly available, distributed web applicationsA working understanding of a high-level programming language like Go, Python, JavaScript, etc.Strong AWS experience managing infrastructure in a secure, highly available, automated fashion (VPC, ELB, Containers, Auto Scaling)Strong background in Linux/Unix administration, networking, HTTP/2, DNS, REST, etcExperience with NoSQL to SQL database migrations across application and infrastructureExperience with managing large Lucene-based search systems such as ElasticsearchExperience with infrastructure as code and managing Terraform configurations in a sustainable and scalable wayExperience with observability tools (ELK/Prometheus/Coralogix/distributed tracing)Nice To Have:You have Github activity showing thoughtful, relevant contributionsYou have a working knowledge of writing code and scripts in more than one languageYou have experience designing sharding configurations for databasesYou have experience developing internal tools for othersYou have experience creating SLAs, SLOs, SLIsHIPAA ComplianceAll roles at Kustomer may involve handling sensitive personal data.BenefitsKustomer offers an array of benefits including competitive salaries, stock options, 100% healthcare coverage, 401K, WiFi and Mobile reimbursement, and a generous vacation policy.Diversity & Inclusion at KustomerKustomer is committed to bringing together individuals from different backgrounds and perspectives.We strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do great work together. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, Veteran status, or any other legally protected status.Disclaimer: Kustomer only contacts candidates from company email addresses ending in kustomer.com and does not seek funds from candidates in any circumstances.#J-18808-Ljbffr