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About the role
The Platform Engineering team builds the tools and services that accelerate the software development life cycle of the software engineers at Mural.
As a Platform Engineer, you will play a crucial role in driving the performance and efficiency of the software development life cycle across the organization. You will be responsible for understanding, maintaining, and evolving existing systems while designing and implementing advanced automation tools and optimized workflows.
What you'll do
- Design, implement and maintain the build infrastructure for a large Typescript and NodeJS codebase.
- Collaborate with software developers and platform engineers to define and refine the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes and best practices.
- Identify and address bottlenecks, performance issues, and opportunities for automation within the development pipeline to speed up the whole development experience.
- Develop and maintain scalable platform features, ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of our software delivery processes.
- Care deeply about the problems and needs of all the engineers in the organization, training and supporting them to better use the tools we build to improve their quality of life.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience working on the backend, integrations or CI/CD pipelines of a high-performing engineering team.
- Experience building reusable components and libraries, with an understanding of scalable architecture.
- Excellent communication skills, with a focus on documenting solutions and providing clear technical guidance.
- A strong sense of ownership over critical problem areas.
- A thorough understanding of Linux, Docker and CI tools like Github Actions or similar.
- Experience in designing, implementing and documenting API services.
- Experience managing stateful Kubernetes workloads, including operating, scaling, troubleshooting, and improving the reliability of production-grade services.
- Comfortable designing and programming custom operators to automate platform workflows, extend infrastructure capabilities, and improve reliability across development and delivery systems.
- Experience designing and building AI-powered platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, automate engineering workflows, or enhance CI/CD, observability, testing, and release processes.
- A proactive, ownership-driven approach to troubleshooting and supporting critical technical areas.
- Experience in making data-driven decisions.
Nice to have
- Understanding of the NodeJS and Typescript ecosystems, and their automated build and testing tools.
- Kubernetes, Python, Golang, Terraform and Azure Cloud knowledge.
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