Cloud Computing Backend Engineer

We are Outbrain.

Outbrain is the world’s leading content discovery platform, serving over 340B personalized recommendations monthly, reaching over 1B users from across the globe.

To support this scale, we manage a fleet of over 8000 physical servers, spread across several data centers. Scalability, reliability and “building the right thing” are in our genes, and we embrace automation and open-source. We love data and what it can tell us about our systems and we make sure to balance life and work to extract the best of both worlds.

We are looking for a passionate team player to join our team.

You will be part of a talented group of professionals, responsible for automating our physical datacenter operations and managing our own private cloud.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, develop, and maintain server-side applications and APIs for managing and controlling our data centers operations.
• Design, implement and maintain systems to support cloud-like infrastructure procedures.
• Provide self-serve tools for hardware configuration.
• Build and maintain storage open source solutions.
• Automate pipeline for vendor communication.
• Automate hardware lifecycle: from elevation moment till decommission.

What you’ll Bring:

• At least 3 years of experience as DevOps Engineer\SRE Engineer\Platform Engineer
• At least 3 years of experience in writing code in one of the following: Python, Ruby or Go.
• Experience with Object Oriented programming is an advantage.
• Strong familiarity with Linux based OS and Bash scripting.
• Experience with RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with automating deployments using configuration and deployment management tools such as Chef, Jenkins, Docker or others.
• Experience using version control tools such as Git.
• Familiarity with open source storage technologies is an advantage.

Personal Skills

• You have self-learning capabilities and eagerness to learn new technologies
• You have the ability to work independently and as a team player.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• Self-motivated with a real can-do attitude.
• Fluent in written and spoken English.

Our team believes that sometimes potential and capabilities come before experience. If you believe that your experience does not fully match our requirements but you think you are up for that challenge - ping us!