Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Posted Jun 23

Job description

BigCommerce’s mission is to help merchants sell more at every stage of growth, from small startups, to mid-market businesses to large enterprises. We focus on being the best ecommerce platform so our customers can focus on what matters most: growing their businesses.

We are equally passionate about growing our employee’s careers and providing them an incredible experience as we rapidly expand across the globe. We are proud to have been  recognized numerous times  for our product and workplace culture. We empower our people and customers to build, innovate and grow, so together we can redefine the ecommerce industry.

BigCommerce, named a “Great Place to Work” in Australia, a” Best Place to Work" in Austin, and a “Best and Brightest” place to work in San Francisco. Our Sydney Australia team is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer.  This position can be fully remote in Australia or based in Sydney.

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at BigCommerce, you’ll work as part of our Infrastructure Engineering team. Our Infrastructure Engineering team consists of a talented group of individuals who specialize not only in web operations and systems administration, but also software engineering. We’re charged with designing the underlying technology stack that powers BigCommerce stores and building the underlying systems/tools that enable engineering teams to build and ship BigCommerce services.

We’re looking for an experienced candidate who brings a blended set of skills for software engineering and web operations to our team. In other organizations, you might have heard of this referred to as a “DevOps Engineer” or “Site Reliability Engineer”. We like to believe DevOps is an idea, a theory and a set of fundamentals about how we work and interact within our team, in engineering and for our business.

Currently you’ll find us predominantly working in Golang, Python, Ruby and PHP backed by Puppet for configuration management and Terraform for infrastructure management/provisioning. We operate remote-first and prioritize team over individuals, value innovative problem solving and strive for operational efficiency.

**To be considered a candidate, you must be located in Australia**

** Work Authorization Visa Sponsorship cannot be provided**

What you will do:

  • A software engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help glue infrastructure and software together
  • Apply software engineering and SRE principles while leveraging infrastructure automation tools to build, maintain, monitor and operate complex infrastructure
  • You understand scalable web architectures and cloud technologies
  • Someone who loves to code, and you enjoy working in multiple programming languages. We primarily work with Golang, Python, Ruby and PHP
  • Assist in defining the scope of projects
  • You drive issues to completion, marshaling resources in high-pressure situations
  • Work closely with your peers to expand your knowledge and understanding of the technologies used in the platform
  • Take initiative and work beyond the scope of a task to improve existing systems and code
  • Providing support to the Engineering and Customer Support teams
  • Diagnosing and problem-solving issues on the platform
  • Participate in our on-call rotation

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate possesses some or all the following skills:

  • 6+ years of experience in building software for, operating and supporting large Linux based web application environments
  • An excellent communicator, who works well with geographically distributed teams such as ours (we are split between Austin, Kyiv, San Francisco, Sydney and remote)
  • You're obsessive compulsive, in a good way. Your systems and scripts are clean, well-documented and comprehensible
  • You have a passion for learning, are curious when it comes to working with new technologies or languages and are not afraid to ask questions
  • A technical expert who will lead by example
  • Experienced with Linux systems administration, including solid scripting skills in Ruby, PHP, Python or Bash
  • Experienced with running Docker with container orchestration systems such as Nomad, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or Google GKE
  • Experienced with database, document storage and object storage systems
  • Experienced with configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible
  • Experienced with Infrastructure-As-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Deployment Manager
  • Experienced with monitoring, metrics gathering, error reporting, tracing and logging systems such as ELK, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, Lightstep or Sentry

Compensation:   Base Salary, Plus Super, Plus Equity

Posted: 20 , June 2024

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at BigCommerce

Our employees make the difference. At BigCommerce, we believe that celebrating the unique histories, perspectives and abilities of every employee makes a difference for our company, our customers and our community. We are an equal opportunity employer and the inclusive atmosphere we build together will make room for every person to contribute, grow and thrive.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need an accommodation in order to interview at BigCommerce, please let us know during any of your interactions with our recruiting team.

Learn more about the BigCommerce team, culture and benefits at  https://careers.bigcommerce.com.