Golang Job: Kubernetes Engineer - Platform

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Company

Afterpay

Location

Melbourne - Australia

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Company Description

Since we first opened our doors in 2009, the world of commerce has evolved immensely – and so has Square. After enabling anyone to take a payment and never miss a sale, we saw sellers stymied by disparate, outmoded products and tools that wouldn’t work together. So we expanded into software and started building integrated, omnichannel solutions – to help sellers sell online, manage inventory, run a busy kitchen, book appointments, engage loyal buyers, and hire and pay staff. And across it all, we’ve embedded financial services tools at the point of sale, so merchants can access a business loan and manage their cash flow all in one place.

Today, we’re a partner to sellers of all sizes – large, enterprise-scale businesses with complex commerce operations, sellers just starting out, as well as merchants who began selling with Square and have grown larger over time. As our sellers scale, so do our solutions. We all grow together.

There is a massive opportunity in front of us. We’re building a business that is big, meaningful, and lasting. And we are helping sellers around the world do the same.

Job Description

Afterpay’s Platform Engineering is responsible for the build, deployment, monitoring and maintenance of the underlying cloud infrastructure that powers Afterpay’s platform. Our customers are the internal Afterpay product teams; our work enables them to focus on building new product features leveraging our highly available infrastructure platform. It is our objective to ensure product development teams can provision new services to the platform quickly, easily and safely.

Kubernetes at Afterpay and Block

Afterpay’s Platform Engineering is home to one of Block’s Kubernetes teams. Our EKS platform powers all the services which provide the Afterpay backend, and it’s this platform which will scale with Afterpay’s growth with Square and Block.

Qualifications

The Kompute Kubernetes team needs k8s experts. You have multiple years experience working with and managing Kubernetes clusters (all flavours welcome). You have a strong grasp of Kubernetes fundamentals, understand its internal workings and are able to guide development teams in their journey to adopt and scale their applications on Kubernetes. Ideally you have expertise in some or all of the following areas: cluster networking & service mesh management, cluster scalability & resiliency, cluster security.

A great candidate for Platform Engineering will have experience with many of the following technologies which are in use at Block:

  • Public cloud platforms - AWS, GCP, Azure
  • Container orchestration - Kubernetes, EKS/GKE, ECS Fargate
  • Cloud networking - VPCs, AWS TGW, Cloudflare, Fastly
  • Infrastructure-as-code - Terraform, CloudFormation
  • Observability - Prometheus, SumoLogic, New Relic, Datadog
  • Software development - Golang, Python, Bash, Rust
  • Cloud databases - RDS, Global Aurora, MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB
  • Scalable CI/CD toolchains - Buildkite, Github, Artifactory, Docker registries
  • Load Testing - K6, Gatling

You have:

  • 3+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Experience with AWS strongly preferred
  • Software development skills are highly desirable
  • You’re most at home in the shell on linux-based systems
  • Day-to-day working knowledge of foundational tools like git, docker, bash
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Willingness to learn and an appetite to push the boundaries

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Perks

We want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes:

  • Healthcare coverage
  • Retirement Plans
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Wellness perks
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid time off
  • Learning and Development resources

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.