Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

We are Rokt, a hyper-growth ecommerce leader. We enable companies to unlock value by making each transaction relevant at the moment that matters most, when customers are buying. Together, Rokt's AI-based relevance Platform and scaled ecommerce network powers billions of transactions. In December 2022, Rokt's valuation increased to $2.4 billion USD, allowing us to expand rapidly across 15 countries.

At Rokt, we practice transparency in career paths and compensation.

At Rokt, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a well-defined career ladder with transparent compensation and clear career paths based on competency and ability. Rokt'stars constantly strive to raise the bar, pushing the envelope of what is possible.

We are looking for a Software Engineer - Platform Engineering

Compensation: $160,000 - $270,000 including superannuation, employee equity plan grant & world class benefits.

Rokt is looking for an experienced software engineer to be part of a team responsible for designing and building the Rokt Infrastructure which provides a a performant, scalable and globally distributed platform as a service. You will become intimate with the architecture of our systems and be responsible for building new platform features, tools and services that ultimately power and scale the Rokt Platform. Ability to quickly learn and become familiar with our Kubernetes-based platform including Istio, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, Flyte.

About the Role:

• Co-design, deploy, manage, optimise, and automate application infrastructure to contribute to Rokt Infrastructure Platform expansion
• Collaborate with multiple engineering teams and ensure the platform meets their requirements
• Provide guidelines to engineering teams based on infrastructure principles; enable them to deliver services that are highly available, secure, performant and cost effective
• Enable cost governance by providing full cost transparency to team members; provide recommendations for cost efficiency
• Automate tasks through appropriate tooling and bespoke software solutions

Requirements

About You:

• 5+ years as a software engineer
• Commercial experience developing in a modern programming language (Golang, Python, Java, C#, Ruby)
• Solid experience with cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and tooling like AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Istio

• Experience building solutions in distributed systems for high volume transaction processing

• Strong organisational and interpersonal skills, with experience instilling a culture of operational maturity
• Experience in defensive programming, circuit breakers, resilience frameworks, fault tolerance, and self-healing mechanisms of services would be amazing

Benefits

About Rokt'stars

As a mission-driven, hyper-growth community of curious explorers, our ambition is to unlock the full potential in ecommerce and beyond. Our bias for action means we are not afraid to quickly venture into uncharted territories, take risks or challenge the status quo; in doing so we either win or learn. We work together as one aligned team never letting egos get in the way of brilliant ideas. We value diversity, transparency and smart humble people who enjoy building a disruptive business together. We pride ourselves on being a force for good as we make the world better.

About The Benefits

We leverage best-in-class technology and market-leading innovation in AI and ML, with all of that being underlined by building and maintaining a fantastic and inclusive culture where people can be their authentic selves, and offering a great list of perks and benefits to go with it

• Accelerate your career. We offer roadmaps to leadership and an annual $5000 training allowance
• Become a shareholder. Every Rokt'star gets equity in the company
• Enjoy catered lunch every day, healthy snacks in the office and a monthly wellbeing allowance!
• Extra leave (bonus annual leave, sabbatical leave etc.)
• Work with the greatest talent in town
• See the world! We have offices in New York, Seattle, Sydney, Tokyo and London

We believe we're better together. We love spending time together and are in the office most days (teams are in the office 4 days per week). We also get that you need to balance your life and your commitments so you have the flexibility to manage your own hours and can spend up to a week of every quarter working from anywhere.

If this sounds like a role you'd enjoy, apply here and you'll hear from our recruiting team.