Golang Job: Junior Infrastructure Engineer

Every day, millions of people rely on WeTransfer to share their creative ideas.

Having made its name in the game of quick and simple file-sharing, WeTransfer has grown into an end-to-end suite of digital solutions with more than 87 million monthly active users in 190 countries. Beyond the WeTransfer.com platform, we have the storytelling platform WePresent, quick slide-making tool Paste, immersive sketching app Paper, and inspiration-capturing tool Collect. We design and deliver delightful experiences that continue to feel obvious and intuitive to millions of people—from our moms to your favorite artists. As a certified B-Corp, WeTransfer aims to be a sustainable and responsible tech company, balancing people, planet, and profit

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So, the work we do matters. Come and be a part of it.*

The Infrastructure department is at the core of engineering at WeTransfer. We accelerate innovation by providing developers with the tools they need to develop and operate their services. Together with engineers from product teams we work on processes, tools and services to support end-to-end ownership, self-service deployment and to improve our products’ reliability.
Within Infrastructure, we have two teams who are looking for a junior engineer to join them. In your application, you can either state your preference or we will figure it out along the way. Your first interview will be with a member of each team.

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Site Reliability Engineering team*
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline focused on making it easier to operate systems for engineers working on them. With our company growing and scaling, we can run into unexpected outages more often. Best to reduce and limit those as reliable services tend to lead to happy users and happy engineers. SRE practices can help us find the balance between velocity and reliability. The SRE team is dedicated to enabling engineering teams in their reliability journey through tools, processes and knowledge in the realm of monitoring, incident response, learning from failure, release strategies and much more! We want to give teams the confidence to take full service ownership and bounce back from failure faster and more easily. This team currently consists of 2 site reliability engineers and 1 engineering manager. We are looking for 2 more people to join, one of which could be you!

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Platform team*
Platform means different things at different companies. Here at WeTransfer, the Platform team is responsible for Core Infrastructure and Developer Experience. For us, Core Infrastructure means all the technologies and services that intertwine to provide a “platform” for engineers to ship code both to production and across all development environments, and Developer Experience is all about focussing on making engineering easier and more effective for our colleagues — we do this by building tools and making infrastructure choices with their involvement. With our company growing, we have a lot of ambitions and interesting challenges ahead of us, alongside making sure we support our fellow engineers’ current needs. The Platform team works alongside other engineering teams to empower them by enabling them with tools and knowledge to have ownership of their own services, and we provide the path of least resistance to a production-ready service. We support whatever whacky and wonderful idea they have to the best of our abilities! This team currently consists of 4.2* Platform Engineers and 1 Engineering Manager. We are looking for 4 more engineers to join!
(we have a special member who works 1 day per week on Developer Experience)

What you'll be doing

• Help scale to support an engineering organization of hundreds of engineers and enable them to ship new products and features reliably in a self-serve manner
• Work with other teams and engineers to understand their needs so we build the right services and help them with their questions.
• Automate manual steps in our own and in product engineers’ way of working.
• In the case of Platform: building and maintaining Core Infrastructure and improving Developer Experience for the entire engineering department.
• In the case of SRE: help engineers to improve their monitoring and incident management and response.

What we will be looking for

• Above all else, we value open communication and good teamwork to achieve a shared vision. We are looking for proactivity in spotting problem areas, proposing ideas for improvements and seeing them through (with help from your team).
• Good writing and presentation skills as one of our tasks is to share knowledge on the topics we are working on.
• Someone who is curious, and enjoys learning and solving problems.
• Some hands-on experience with containers and infrastructure as code having worked with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Some hands-on experience with building services with backend languages such as Golang or Python.
• Some hands-on experience using an Infrastructure as a Service provider, experience or familiarity with concepts and terminology within AWS is a plus.

We expect a mix-match of skills and abilities; so if you're comfortable with code and understand the other concepts but with no experience or vice-versa, that's okay too!

WeTransfer is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on the diversity of our people. We welcome you, and everything that makes you—well, you. That includes your gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, or disability status.

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A note on remote*
Our work environment is hybrid-remote, meaning that we support our employees to work remotely and in the office. We encourage employees to decide for themselves and with their team whether or when to go to the office. However, we recommend that you don't come to the office more than 2-3 per week - since that wouldn't be hybrid anymore.

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While it is not necessarily a determining or disqualifying factor for any role, you may be required to complete a standard employment background screening._

Job Type: Full-time