Platform Engineer I

Company Overview

ActiveProspect is the SaaS platform on a mission to make consent-based marketing the most scalable, efficient, and safest method for customer acquisition. 

Our comprehensive product suite empowers companies across industries to take real-time action on their leads, protect themselves from litigation by documenting proof of consent, and save money by providing new levels of data insights and control.

Our mission is to make consent-based marketing the best channel for customer acquisition.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Platform Engineer I to join our Engineering team and help build, develop, and maintain the tooling to improve our foundational infrastructure automation that powers our products. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their career who is passionate about learning new technologies, writing clean and scalable code, and solving complex technical problems alongside experienced engineers.

As a Platform Engineer I, you’ll play a key role in supporting the stability, scalability, and performance of our systems. You’ll work on critical projects with mentorship from senior engineers and have plenty of opportunities to grow your skills in areas like DevOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud technologies. You’ll get the opportunity to use exciting technologies to build and optimize our platform that services tens of millions of requests per day.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Assist in the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal platform tools and services.
• Monitor and respond to issues in our production systems, helping troubleshoot and resolve incidents.
• Write clear and concise documentation for tools, systems, and processes.
• In partnership with senior engineers, upgrade GitOps, Kubernetes (AWS EKS/ArgoCD) and serverless (AWS Lambda) deployment patterns
• Work on and learn tooling to enable product development teams to build and deploy software as quickly and efficiently as possible
• Partner with other engineers across the organization to identify the optimal cloud infrastructure, networking, and storage design for each solution
• Collaborate daily with fellow team members to drive best practices and identify innovative strategies for successful delivery
• Manage credentials and permissions for developers and automated processes, helping  ensure the security and health of our systemsIdentify, recommend, and implement system improvements to reduce infrastructure costs
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure production’s system availability meets SLAs
• Assist in compliance and security policies, SOC II testing, and remediation

Qualifications and Skills

• Programming experience in any high-level language
• Proficiency working in a cloud environment (AWS)
• Familiarity with containerization and Kubernetes(Docker, EKS, Helm, , ECS, ECR, GitHub Container Registry)
• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Knowledge of common databases and database best practices (PostgreSQL, RDS, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL)
• Comfortable working within Ubuntu Linux operating systems
• Understanding of Git/Github and typical versioning workflows
• Familiarity with networking concepts (Firewalls, ACLs, routing, VPN, Load Balancers)
• Completion of a 4 year degree in engineering or computer science

What You Need To Succeed

• A self-driven motivation is key to our growing company
• Clear communication and decisive action in dynamic project environments
• A detail-oriented perspective on your deliverables to the organization
• Excitement to enable multiple development teams through communication and automation
• Cost-effective mentality for managing & budgeting cloud resources
• Innate tendencies to ensure strong security, redundancy, scalability, and performance
• Effective decision making in a collaborative environment
• Love for continually learning new tools and technologies

How To Stand Out

• Experience operating large-scale customer-facing production environments with a focus on uptime and service quality
• Experience working with microservices
• Hands on experience deploying and managing Apache Kafka (Confluent)
• Serverless experience (AWS Lambda)
• Programming Experience with JavaScript, Elixir, Ruby, and/or Python
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Automation (Terraform)
• Compliance (SOC2 & GDPR)
• Secrets Management (AWS Secrets Manager, Doppler)
• Knowledge of service observability and telemetry (OTel, Datadog)
• Experience working on distributed database systems

Benefits and Perks

• Flexible work environment with a focus on work-life balance
• Competitive salary and benefits package including healthcare, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Retirement plan with company matching
• Regular team-building events and a global, remote-first company culture

ActiveProspect is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.