Senior Systems Engineer

Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, with over 65 million freelancers across the globe. Our marketplace hosts a real life economy, where work is undertaken in every area you can think of. From design, writing, data entry and software development; through to cleaning, plumbing and dog walking – even NASA uses us!

This won’t be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. If you’re a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in corporate, want to work with the best and brightest and don’t need to be handheld, this is the job for you.

If you join a mega-cap technology company as the 10,000th hire you might struggle to figure out the impact you are making. If you join a startup, you might get to work on the latest fad, but likely have few mentors to learn from, work on toy problems and never change the world.

At Freelancer you’ll get to work on a highly diverse, global set of internet-scale challenges where you will make a meaningful difference with real responsibility, while rapidly building your skills. We run a meritocracy – we actively promote from within.

About the Role:

You will join a small team of versatile infrastructure engineers who are responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the mission-critical cloud platform powering Freelancer.com, Escrow.com, and a number of other businesses within the enterprise.

You will work with highly scalable open source services (Linux, MySQL, Nginx, ElasticSearch, Redis, RabbitMQ, Consul) running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will be building highly resilient, dynamically scaling systems managed using Puppet and Terraform.

Your Responsibilities:

• You will manage Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with a focus on security, high availability and cost using a Infrastructure-As-Code methodology using Terraform and Puppet
• You will monitor system health of deployed systems and ensure all failures are root caused using various tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana.
• Escalation point for high-priority, production-related issues
• Proactive and creative in identifying and addressing pain points through documentation, automation, scripting or redesigning existing infrastructure
• Maintain documentation and processes around key infrastructure and services
• Provide on-call support on a rotational basis, as required by the company

Requirements

• Understanding of Linux, Networking and Systems architecture
• A security-focused mindset and experience with incident response
• Experience with any cloud, virtualization, and/or container services (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS)
• Experience working with any configuration management and infrastructure orchestration tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such and Prometheus and Kibana is a plus
• Programming experience with any of Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, Node.js is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• A meritocratic culture with the ability to take ownership and fast track your career growth.
• You will be working on an Alexa top ranked website, solving complex, internet scale and global challenges in systems engineering with over 65 million customers across 247 countries, regions & territories.
• A laptop of your choice and any other hardware you need
• Weekly Town Halls with the all important Q&A session with the CEO (you really can ask him anything)!
• Regular social and team building events (think laser tag, escape rooms, karaoke, trivia nights, poker nights, and more)
• Quarterly hackathons with cash prizes
• Weekly team lunches