Job Description
Summary
As a Member of Technical Staff on the Domain Engineering team, you are responsible for ensuring a robust technology stack, enabling our company to build scalable, efficient, and maintainable products. Allowing our product teams to focus on developing customer focused features. You are a strong individual contributor and you have the ability to significantly contribute to and execute complex Engineering projects, enabled with appropriate coding and testing. You can understand the “why” in order to connect dependencies to the “bigger picture” and Anchorage mission and product roadmap.
Technical Skills:
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to identify areas for improvements across our engineering stack.
- Previous experience in establishing shared libraries across teams, with a focus on standardization, code quality, and reduced duplication.
- Proven experience with application observability projects that involved setting up performance metrics, log aggregation, tracing, and alerting systems.
Complexity and Impact of Work
- Find the right balance between progress (i.e. shipping quickly) and perfection (i.e. measuring twice).
- Foster an efficient deterministic testing culture, with an emphasis on minimizing tech debt and bureaucracy.
- Ship code that will impact the whole organization.
Organizational Knowledge
- Collaborate across multiple teams, especially on integration, standardization, and shared resources.
- Influence others by engaging in in-depth technical design discussions and demonstrating best practices through technical leadership by example.
- Make a meaningful impact across the entire engineering organization, extending influence beyond the immediate team.
Communication and Influence
- Communicate technical concepts and solutions effectively to non-technical stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships with colleagues to drive collaboration and innovation.
You may be a fit for this role if you:
- You are passionate about constantly seeking opportunities to refine and enhance existing systems and processes.
- Driven by a passion for being a force multiplier and influential technical leader in a dynamic, fast-paced startup environment.
- Have expert coding skills in Golang.
- Experienced in cross-functional projects, collaborating effectively with your team and adjacent teams to tackle complex challenges.
- Have excellent soft skills, including, the ability to adapt communication for both internal and external stakeholders in an effective manner, bridging gaps with empathy and proactive communication.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- Infrastructure-as-code; Terraform, Gitops, Helm
- Google Cloud Platform & Security
Skills
- Communications Skills
- Development
- Software Engineering
- Team Collaboration