[Wattpad] Platform Engineer

June 18

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Description

• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large-scale distributed system serving millions of people per day • Building new features, tools and services in PHP and Go. • Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems. • Writing tests for all your work. • Defining best practices and providing mentorship and support to other engineers. • Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues. • Advocating for the adoption of best practices, systems and tools across the engineering org.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a prior SaaS engineering role • You’ve worked with cloud platforms as a service (AWS, GCP, etc.) for at least 3 years • You are skilled in Go or PHP • You know how to use Docker • You’re an excellent communicator • You love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways • You enjoy working with a team but have no problem working independently • You write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn’t and doesn’t) • Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (and has “just the right” amount of documentation)

Benefits

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals • Health benefits, including vision and dental! • RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA) • Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up • Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family • Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!