Software Engineer: Reliability

At Button we’re proud to be judged by the company we keep. As entrepreneurs, we’ve collectively started over a dozen companies and have experience at top tech companies like Google, Venmo, and Rocket Internet.

• Steer and mature a modern API platform.
• Work closely with other platform engineers to design a scalable, maintainable, service-oriented production architecture.
• Take control of and automate all aspects of deployment, using tools like Ansible.
• Design load balancing, failover, and alerting systems for best-in-class 24x7 high availability across all services.
• Champion best practices surrounding logging, monitoring, build and test systems.
• Shape our engineering culture by coming up with ideas, tools, and infrastructure wherever you see a problem to be solved.
• Measure and monitor systems to build company-wide awareness of production; build dashboards for important metrics.

How do we work together?

• Our services are written in NodeJS, Go, and Python.
• We believe in using the right tool for the job, and we love learning.
• We use AWS, Graphite, Loggly, and a host of other SaaS tools to run our stack.
• Everything is code reviewed.
• You’ll be an important engineer in keeping our systems up and shaping a “reliability first” culture where all engineers participate in the rotation.

• So many war stories on building and maintaining a highly-scalable production system.
• A love of hands on coding and expert proficiency in at least one language like Python, Ruby, or Go.Mastery of AWS and EC2.
• Experience designing scalable “mission critical” systems.
• You know what it takes to keep the pager quiet.
• An ability to move fast, make decisions, and take a pragmatic approach to any problem.