Rapid is a team of creators delivering the next-generation API platform built for the modern developer. Our users range from independent developers to the largest companies in the world. We work hard to make it easy for developers to build, use, and share APIs faster while providing enterprise-wide visibility and governance. As a result, entrepreneurs and enterprises can concentrate on creating value and business outcomes.

How do we make this happen? Rapid is the creator of RapidAPI Hub, the world’s largest API hub, where more than 4 million developers discover, evaluate and integrate more than 40,000 APIs from leading companies like Twilio, Microsoft and Google and more. Rapid also offers RapidAPI Studio, which provides developers with a single, connected experience to design, develop, test, monitor and publish their APIs. For enterprise organizations, Rapid offers RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a private, customizable version of the public hub that enables the company’s developers, customers, and partners to find, manage, and connect to hundreds of internal APIs, as well as external API subscriptions.

We operate at scale when the opportunity is even greater. We offer you the opportunity to make a difference and empower developers to build modern software through API innovation while doing the most critical work of your career.

RapidAPI is building a tight-knit, high-performing group of problem solvers to transform how companies manage, develop, and monetize their APIs. The platform engineering organization provides the infrastructure and software capabilities RapidAPI employee developers use to build, test, deploy, instrument, operate, automate, analyze, and optimize their products and services.

As a principal DevOps engineer on the platform engineering team at RapidAPI you will use your background and expertise to help define, build, operate, and maintain our developer platforms and infrastructure, aligned with our corporate and technical strategies and architectural “north star”.

The goal will be to create a portfolio of products and services that empower RapidAPI developers to deliver the products and features their customers need, in a predictable, scalable, secure, compliant, and cost-effective manner. Our platforms should accelerate the activities great engineers would perform if we didn’t provide them.

To be successful in this role, you will need to bring a consultative approach combined with a technical skill set to both influence and implement meaningful solutions that can ultimately be self-served. Broadly this will require expertise in both software engineering, public cloud infrastructure, and necessary services like DNS, secrets, identity and access management, modern CICD solutions, networking, to name a few.

YOU WILL:

Drive the creation and adoption of internal developer platform products and services, with a focus on public cloud infrastructure (AWS, EC2, Kubernetes, service mesh, etc)
Ensure new products, features and services adhere to our architectural “north star”
Collaborate with team members for the purpose of continuously improving the health, performance, and useability of the products they deliver to RapidAPI developers
Define engineering best practices for operational maturity, whether the products are internal or external
Deliver solutions that accelerate the activities great engineers would perform through automation, deep domain expertise, and knowledge sharing

YOU HAVE:

Excellent communication skills and the ability to understand complex systems; versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job.
7+ years of experience in a staff or principal DevOps/SRE/software engineering role
7+ years of experience in system design, deployment and implementation
5+ years of experience in deploying workloads in a cloud (IaaS) environment
Demonstrated mastery of one of more software languages: Python, Go, Java, Scala, etc
Experience in leading teams as well as technology and business consulting projects
Experience in developing or providing technical architectures for software deployment
Strong experience in automation technologies, IaC, CaC, CSP environment automation
Strong Experience building cloud-native solutions
Experience with CICD/DevOps
Experience in Agile-based DevOps continuous integration environments
Expertise in any one of the hyper scale cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
A desire to contribute to a fun, fast-growing team that work hard, but also enjoy working together

This is an opportunity to play a key role in a fast-growing and high-scale startup company distributed across the US, Europe, and Israel. You'll be taking our product to the next level within a high-talent-density team and out-of-the-box thinking. Having raised $150 million in a Series D investment round in 2022; you’ll be working with a team that is scaling globally, fast.

If this sounds like you, click apply below! We’d love to hear from you.

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