GCP Cloud Engineer

About Us

• Fitted, a fast-growing, venture-backed startup headquartered in Boise, has developed an evidence-based software platform that is changing the multi-billion-dollar athletic specialty industry.
• Our SaaS product suite blends brick-and-mortar specialty stores, their major brands, and the digital world to provide a turnkey e-Comm platform that enables retailers to never miss a sale, thereby, increasing revenue and providing store operating efficiencies, among other benefits.
• Our target industry is run specialty, but quickly moving into other athletic verticals.
• We are looking for self-driven, curious, game changers to add to our team in order to maintain our industry leadership position.

Role

• Building and maintaining RESTful services, event driven data pipelines, and the supporting infrastructure from the ground up. 
• Assisting in the migration of services from AWS to GCP.
• Identify bottlenecks, opportunities, and issues in processes and systems and provide solutions to resolve them.
• Enhance the company’s IT infrastructure security protocols
• Maintain and improve the company’s cloud infrastructure
• Contribute to and optimize the CI/CD pipeline.
• Provide assistance and mentoring to other team members. 
• Stay current with industry trends and source new ways for our business to improve.

Requirements

• A seasoned generalist who has the capability of creating and maintaining scalable and resilient cloud based services.
• Familiarity with APM and Tracing solutions.
• General familiarity with relational, document, key/value, graph, full-text, and columnar databases. What the differences are and what use cases suite each.
• Experience running containers in a resilient and scalable environment (ideally with Kubernetes)
• Ability to choose appropriate data structures, algorithms, patterns, systems, and architectures and explain those decisions to team members and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in automating tasks, scripting via command line, and working on POSIX based systems.
• Comfortable with functional and object-oriented programming languages. Ideally including any of Typescript, rust, Scala, Kotlin, Haskell, Clojure, or Java. We are primarily using Typescript but will need alternatives for computationally intensive operations.
• Possess interpersonal, management and decision-making skills.