Sennder is Europe's leading digital freight forwarder. In a traditional industry, we are moving fast to digitize and automate all road logistics processes. We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer that can build a healthy platform that powers all of sennder's engineering department. We value humility and we're as interested in your character as we are in your talent. Please apply, even if you feel you only meet part of our listed criteria. Diversity drives our innovation and we offer a collaborative, dynamic and international work environment. Just be yourself.
We are excited to meet you and for you to join us in shaping the future of the logistics industry in Europe.
ABOUT THE ROLEWe believe in giving our autonomous teams ownership of a challenging mission and we love engineers that want to drive significant improvements and take ownership of certain parts of our roadmap. If you enjoy collaboration, can lead by example and thrive in a fast-paced environment then this could be the organisation for you.
IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLEAs a part of the Platform team, you will be the bridge between product engineering and infrastructure. Designing and reviewing architecture decisions, automating operations, and ensuring smooth delivery, with keen focus on reliability, security and compliance. This role is crucial in order to enable developers to function in a deterministic manner and deliver best quality products.
WHAT IS THE EXCITING CHALLENGE YOU WILL FACE?We are scaling up the engineering department, and the platform team is very important for our successful growth. This role involves owning the responsibility of creating, building and ensuring the smooth operation of our infrastructure along with hands-on coding and architecture skills. We expect that you will be a person to share responsibility for driving such initiatives:
Managing and improving sennder's highly demanding platform with state-of-the-art technologies such as containers, serverless computing, kafka, Postgres, message and event queues, AWS, and much more.Co-designing cloud infrastructure with a product-driven approach and implementing infrastructure as code.Crafting operational aspects of continuous integration, continuous delivery, continuous compliance, failure and security attack mitigations and performing root cause analyses.Building internal tooling for the team as well as engineering at large to provide uniform and coherent experience across the organization.Designing engineering operations for smooth functioning of delivery, processes for service disruptions, and mitigation processes during cyber-attacks.Extending observability with a focus on business enablement.Mentoring and training junior engineers on cloud technologies.WHICH TRAITS CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR SUCCESS?Confident presentation and strong influence skills with adaptability based on the audience.In depth experience with AWS and cloud native architecture.Working with Linux and knowledge of scripting languages like BASH, Python.Assertive communication skills for an effective collaboration between engineering, product, and operations.Continuous learning and being particularly passionate about technology.Experience in configuring and running production grade services in AWS.Constant drive for improving processes and thinking in long-term wins.Fluency in English (in both written and verbal communication).TECHNOLOGY STACKAWS ECSTerraformKubernetes, EKS, HelmAmazon RDS, PostgresSQL, ElasticSearchCI/CD with GitLabDatadog, Prometheus, SentryPython, TypeScript, BashABOUT senndersennder is moving trucks with the power of data to unlock endless and sustainable capacity at unparalleled quality. Through our proprietary transportation operating system, built by our in-house tech teams, we not only connect shippers to our fleet of thousands of trucks, but also improve how they move products in sustainable, cost-efficient, and transparent ways - making the logistics industry fit for the future. In a traditional industry, we're growing and moving fast to digitally automate all road logistics processes.
We are building a curious team that is driven by an ambitious desire to solve the toughest logistics puzzles. What others may consider uncertainty, we see as an opportunity to learn and be proactive.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECTAt sennder, we want to maximize the individual's potential for all employees and reinforce an inclusive culture and environment of continuous learning that empowers people to succeed as a team. In addition to humility, we value commitment, team spirit, respect, and kindness to build trusted relationships across teams.
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