Production Engineer

ABOUT PLACER.AI:

One of the fastest growing tech companies in North America, Placer.ai (“Placer”) reached $100 million ARR “Centaur” status in 2024, within 6 years of launching the Placer platform. We previously crossed the $1B valuation “Unicorn” threshold in 2022.

Our A.I.-based SaaS platform transforms how leaders make critical decisions by unlocking unparalleled visibility into markets and locations, creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. And the best part is, we accomplished this by leading a privacy-first business in which data has been stripped of user identifiers and only aggregated information is provided within the platform.

Our platform provides instant visibility into almost any location in the U.S. We have grown exponentially over the past 6 years, counting more than 4,000+ paying customers including many Fortune 500 companies, such as, JP Morgan Chase, Wayfair, Google and many more.

Named one of Forbes America’s Best Startup Employers and a Deloitte Technology Fast company, we are proud of our collaborative, innovative and inclusive culture.

Summary

We are looking for a Production Engineer to help us build and scale Placer’s Infrastructure. This person will take an active role in shaping and implementing Placer’s architecture, as well as introduce new technologies, standards and help increase our release pipeline by building the right tools and frameworks for our developers.

This person will take the existing architecture and pave the way in pursuing and materializing our vision. Passion is a MUST and passion for data even more so!

If you are someone who thrives outside their comfort zone, your place is at Placer.ai.

Responsibilities
Plan and implement tools to help our company succeed
Taking care of our CI/CD tools
Manage our production and multiple development environments
Collaborate with development teams to improve our system infrastructure and stability
Develop effective tooling, dashboards, alerts, and response to identify and address reliability risks
Measure, analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
Carry tasks end-to-end, from design to deployment, and take full ownership
Requirements
5+ years of experience in a similar position
Experience working with public cloud
3+ years of production experience with Kubernetes including using open source solutions from the eco-system
2+ years of experience with "Infrastructure as a code" tools such as Terraform, Pulumi or similar
2+ years of experience managing Databases and Queues such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar
Skills with at least one of general purpose languages such as Golang, Python, Ruby or Java
Strong skills with a variety of monitoring and alerting tools
Sense of humor, all around team player, fast self-learning individual, problem solver
Nice to have:
CKA certification or similar
Strong Kubernetes skills, experience with modern CNIs, volume plugins, security, operators, service meshes, ingresses and K8s ecosystem
Extensive knowledge of RabbitMQ
Experience working with GCP

WHY JOIN PLACER.AI?

Join a rocketship! We are pioneers of a new market that we are creating
Take a central and critical role at Placer.ai
Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
Competitive salary
Excellent benefits

NOTEWORTHY LINKS TO LEARN MORE ABOUT PLACER

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Placer.ai is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment for all employees.

Placer.ai is an equal opportunity employer and has a global remote workforce. Placer.ai’s applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to an applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Placer.ai applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact Placer.ai’s Human Resources Department to make the need for an accommodation known.

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