Sr DevOps Engineer

About the position

Bird is on a mission to bring environmentally friendly transportation to everyone. Our products, services, and people share one common goal: to make cities more livable by reducing gas-powered car usage, lowering carbon emissions, and improving the safety of all road users. We are relentless in our pursuit of better—for our riders, for our partners, for our employees, and for future generations. Our award-winning electric vehicles help millions of riders take carbon-free trips in cities globally. And our teams push boundaries and challenge the status quo in pursuit of a brighter future. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure to join our dynamic engineering team. In this role, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining the underlying systems and frameworks that support our software applications and services. Your expertise in building scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions will be instrumental in ensuring the smooth operation and performance of our technology stack. As a Senior Software Engineer for infrastructure, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and help support the CI/CD pipelines. You will be responsible for architecting and implementing scalable systems in AWS that can handle high traffic loads, optimizing performance and resource utilization, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance by leveraging tools like helm, terraform, vault, kubernetes, etc.

Responsibilities

• Set direction and guide implementation of core platform and infrastructure systems to support rapid feature iteration
• Define patterns and operational guidelines for software development and deployment
• Do critical R&D in timely fashion
• Work across all disciplines of engineering at Bird: Software, Firmware, and Hardware to identify gaps and advocate for solutions
• Design fault tolerant, highly available systems
• Be part of 24/7 support rotation for critical systems

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in STEM with 6+ years of professional, relevant experience
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes, terraform, vault, helm, datadog
• Extensive experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, ECS, RDS, VPC, Route53, Networking, etc.)
• Experience developing, debugging and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github Actions, etc.)
• Working knowledge with Kafka
• Experience with Object Oriented programming and JVM

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Flink and real-time streaming systems
• Experience in Kotlin, Golang, Avro, and Java
• Working experience in Big Data infrastructure
• Experience in Geospatial and IOT systems

Benefits

• Generous employer-paid healthcare package
• Mental health resources
• Work from home stipend
• Wellness stipend
• Plenty of time off to relax and recharge