Engineer — Developer Experience

Mountain View, CA, Hybrid - 3 days per week

Joyent powers the global cloud infrastructure and developer platform providing back-end services for Samsung's billions of devices. Joyent's data center footprint is within 100ms latency to 70% of the world's population, while our multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based developer platform extends our reach to additional resource regions. We're operating at hyperscale to power workloads that bring capability and delight to Samsung's employees and customers.

Job Summary

We are seeking a talented and experienced Kubernetes Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Kubernetes Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing Kubernetes-based solutions to support our organization's infrastructure and application deployment needs. This position will be a part of the DX (Developer Experience) Team. This position will heavily utilize Kubernetes technologies and will be focused on working with newer technologies and solving problems related to CICD. You will participate in Samsung’s cloud initiatives to utilize kubernetes.

You will work closely with our DevOps, Engineering, and IT teams to optimize our Kubernetes clusters, automate deployment processes, and ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud-native applications.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline the deployment, scaling, and management of Kubernetes-based applications.

• Implement best practices for Kubernetes configuration, including networking, security, and resource management.

• Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications and migrate them to Kubernetes environments.

• Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters, identifying and resolving performance issues, bottlenecks, and outages.

• Utilize secure methodologies in order to reduce secrets and credentials utilizing tools such as vault, policies, and other methods

• Running Terraform scripts for all Kubernetes Infrastructure

• Managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters

Skills & Competencies

• To help build kubernetes solutions for developers such as CICD systems and other infrastructure projects

• Successful candidates will:

• Experience running kubernetes workloads on various clouds including AWS, GCP and Azure

• Familiarity with GitOps and utilizing github action runners particularly for kubernetes related workloads

• Experience with security with tools such as Hashicorp Vault and understanding of security policies on various cloud providers

• Experience with Terraform

• Experience running on Linux systems

• Help meet SLA expectations of our systems

• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones

• Ability to analyze complex problems and come up with effective solutions in a cloud context.

• Strong teamwork and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, architects, and business stakeholders.

• Basic project management skills to manage tasks, timelines, and priorities effectively.

• The ability to analyze data and metrics to make data-driven decisions for optimizing cloud resources and performance.

• Ownership -Take ownership of projects, ensuring excellence in execution and accountability for results. Foster a sense of responsibility and pride in delivering high-quality work

• Innovation - Drive innovation by proposing and implementing creative solutions to challenges. Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies, bringing fresh ideas to the table

• Customer focus - Understand and prioritize customer needs, striving to exceed expectations in every interaction. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of customer-centric solutions

• Teamwork - Embrace a collaborative and inclusive approach, working seamlessly with colleagues to achieve common goals

Education & Experience

• A B.Sc. degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or any related discipline.

• Minimum of 4 years of industry experience in engineering 

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for this position will vary among specific regions due to geographical differentials in the labor market, and actual pay will be determined considering factors such as relevant skills, experience, and comparison to other employees in the role.  Therefore, the annual base compensation range for this role (depending on the geographical location) is expected to be between $126000  and $180000.

Regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) have access to benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Vacation and Sick leave, electronic reimbursement and many more. In addition, regular full-time employees (salaried or hourly) are eligible for bonus compensation based on individual, department, and company performance.

About Joyent

Joyent, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung, is the open cloud company. Joyent builds technology, at the pinnacle of scale, performance, stability, and security to accelerate the transformation toward the mobile and cloud-centric world. Joyent designs, builds and manages market competitive cloud computing solutions and services for Samsung Electronics and its partners at global scale.

How To Apply

To apply, please submit a brief introduction, a copy of your resume, and a link to your Github or LinkedIn profile to jobs@joyent.com with Engineer — Developer Experience in the subject. We are an equal-opportunity employer, building a diverse and inclusive team. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.

Joyent is committed to employing a diverse workforce and providing Equal Employment Opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, genetic information, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Disclaimer: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

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