Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

The Role

Spoiler Alert is a high-growth, mission-driven B2B SaaS company focused on reducing food waste and optimizing supply chains for CPG brands. We help manufacturers, distributors, and retailers maximize value from unsold inventory through better liquidation strategies. We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our team to serve as an expert contributor and technical leader for DevOps, site reliability, DevEx, and security.

As a Senior Platform Engineer reporting to the CTO, you will be responsible for taking ownership of roadmap themes, planning and delivering projects toward them, and mentoring other engineers along the way. You’ll influence technical decisions with clearly articulated architectural logic including customer and business context, as well as consideration for platform costs and budget. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is eager to elevate the quality of our software systems and improve the efficacy of other engineers on the team. Sound like you and what you’re looking for in a role? We can’t wait to hear from you!

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute cloud infrastructure roadmap to securely, cost effectively uphold platform reliability and data availability
• Champion DevEx with DevOps that champion observability, documentation, and automation collaboratively with all of Engineering
• Join the infrastructure on-call rotation, providing infrastructure improvements and ongoing training for Engineering to do their own troubleshooting while on support rotation
• Partner with Data and Product engineers to deliver and maintain our product roadmap

Qualifications

Frameworks, services, libraries, and languages naturally come and go. These are the skills and values that we believe are needed to successfully bring what we need in a Platform Engineer at Spoiler Alert. Technologies are provided as examples but comparable ones and motivation to learn work too.

• Expert at building and maintaining infrastructure with a cloud provider like GCP:

  • Provision, configure, deploy, and maintain managed compute services like GKE and CloudRun preferably with IaC like Terraform
  • Maintain CI/CD with a managed service like CircleCI
  • Monitor and maintain managed DBs like MongoDB Atlas
  • Deploy and maintain data stack with managed services for data orchestration, syncing, and warehousing with tools like Astronomer/Airflow, Fivetran, and BigQuery
  • Keep infrastructure costs within annual budget targets, highlighting unexpected variations with plans for mitigation
  • Provide environments for production and development for Node and python using tools like Docker
  • Own platform SLAs and SLOs, supported by usable logging and monitoring for all services
  • Manage platform DNS records in a service like GoDaddy

• Champion for security and appropriate access control across the platform:

  • Maintain health of code repos including triage and mitigation of identified vulnerabilities
  • Manage IAM policies, managed preferably with IaC like Terraform
  • Ensure appropriate access control for platform services preferably with automation like SSO and SCIM
  • Instrument managed intrusion detection systems like Cloud IDS

About Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert is a remote-first software company helping perishable CPG brands manage excess and slow-moving inventory. Working exclusively at the manufacturing plant or distribution center level, Spoiler Alert offers a best-in-class B2B sales platform that enables food & beverage brands to manage their liquidation processes across a private network of discount retailers and nonprofit channels - with a heavy focus on maximizing value recovery, strengthening customer relationships, and increasing the effectiveness of supply chain managers tasked with handling these typically manual sales processes. Founded by alumni of MIT, Spoiler Alert works with some of the world’s largest brands, including Campbell’s, Danone, HelloFresh, KeHE Distributors, and Kraft Heinz, along with a growing network of discount channels committed to increasing affordable food access.

While we care deeply about our customers’ financial and operational improvements, our team’s hearts and minds are motivated by the impact our work has in addressing some of the largest environmental and social opportunities of our generation - at the intersection of food waste, resource deficiency, climate change, affordable nutrition, and hunger. We couldn’t be more excited to be combining critical technology breakthroughs - including workflow automation, augmented intelligence, wholesale e-commerce, traceability, and supply chain management - to an industry that is so critical for daily life.

Born out of MIT in 2015, Spoiler Alert is headquartered in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood and is backed by some of the nation’s leading food, agriculture, and supply chain investors. For more about Spoiler Alert, visit spoileralert.com or our social channels: Twitter & LinkedIn.

Benefits

Spoiler Alert is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees. We offer a remote-first work environment, with the flexibility to work remotely or in-person from our Boston headquarters. Employee benefits include the following:

• Competitive salary and stock option packages
• Subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Climate-focused, pre-tax 401(k) and post-tax Roth 401(k) options
• 12-16 weeks of paid parental leave + flex return to work
• 15+ company holidays, including an EOY rest week
• 20 vacation days and 10 sick days per year
• Summer Fridays - ¹⁄₂ day Fridays MDW - LDW
• Paid volunteer outings and civic engagement leave
• Annual $2000 flex spending budget - learning and development, home office, social outings, etc.
• $500 FSA employer contribution
• Spoiler Alert believes that everyone should be compensated fairly and equitably. We set our salary ranges using compensation data from startups at our stage. The salary range for this position is $135,000-160,000. Pay will be determined based on our assessment of your level and is not determined by location.

We are a diverse team committed to a safe and inclusive work environment, free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, handicap or veteran status, or marital status.

Please note that applicants should be authorized to work in the United States. Though we are interested in every qualified candidate, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.