Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Why you'll love this role
- Platform Engineering team's mission is to build and operate foundational components which
enable engineering teams to rapidly deliver robust, production-ready services.
- Edge Platform Team runs a large-scale federated Graph-QL service to power a self-service API
platform targeted at delivering trusted, reliable, and fast communication between client
applications and services.
- You'll be building tools that empower all engineers (including PE team) to run operationally
excellent services. This is a unique role where you'll get the opportunity to work on
infrastructure vertical as well.
- We use cutting-edge tools and services like Gloo, Kubernetes, LaunchDarkly, Terraform,
Datadog, and plethora of AWS services to build resilient and scalable platforms that
accommodate our rapid growth.
- As Senior Software Engineer in the team, you will be empowered to take ownership of technology
decisions and solutions while playing a pivotal role in establishing a successful engineering
culture at a fast-growing company.
- Decision making ownership and clear OKRs to ensure success
- We're an internet-native, cloud-native company from day1 - you won't find legacy technology here
- If you're a curious leader who loves solving problems, wearing multiple hats, and learning new
things, join us
- Position to be based in Bangalore with hybrid in office/WFH
What you'll do
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Research and implement cutting edge technology that can be applied to handle massive scale
and collaborate with engineers throughout StockX to ensure we are using standard
methodologies to build scalable, secure, and operationally sound systems.
- Take responsibility for the performance and uptime of the services owned by the team by
collecting metrics, participating in on-call rotations, monitoring production systems, debugging
issues as they come up, and responding with a sense of urgency.
- Experience in projects and implementations regarding DevOps, SRE, and Cloud Architecture.
- Help define the way engineers at StockX contribute to a robust, cohesive, low-latency API.
- Work autonomously and within loosely defined requirements.
- Work with other engineering teams to identify needs, pain points, and opportunities.
- Build tooling to allow teams to automate routine cloud deployment, administration, and monitoring
tasks.
- Mentor other Software Engineers to help bolster overall team competency.
- Work with engineers to build standard local/non-production environments for systems across the
organization to enable expedited development and testing.
About you (not more than 3-5 bulleted points)
- Overall, 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong experience with one or more languages used by the team (Typescript/JavaScript/Node.js,
GoLang) or equivalent experience in another language and a willingness to learn.
- Experience in service-oriented and/or microservices architectures along with Graph-QL,preferably in a federated model.
- Should be able to manage and/or implement an AWS API gateway or an equivalent like Gloo.
- Extensive experience working specifically with AWS or other cloud providers (e.g., Azure, Google
Cloud Platform, etc.)
- Sound knowledge on Kubernetes, docker, helm.
- Experience in developing and operating CI and CD pipelines (using Harness, Circle-CI, Jenkins,
GitHub Actions, Travis, Helm, etc.) to automate the delivery of working code to production.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, preferably terraform.
- Experience in managing any RDS Database from database and query optimizations perspective.
- You have built highly resilient and scalable services.
- Possess a strong understanding of what makes a system scalable and how to avoid future
bottlenecks.
Nice to have skills
- Experience problem solving and tackling problems with a creative mindset, creating
recommendations and action plans for solving those problems.
- Working experience on tools like GitHub Actions, Keda would be an added advantage
- A good understanding of the StockX type model and our categories