Senior Systems Engineer (Microservices)

A hybrid work model requires 12 days a week in the office.

The mission of our team in Allegro is maintaining and tuning Kubernetes (running in onprem and Public Cloud) and its ecosystem. Our work is a neverending challenge that gives us an opportunity to learn new technology trends from the world of FOSS and run them. If we dont find what we need in the FOSS we develop it.

DevOps Engineer in our team:

• Operates running Kubernetes systems

• Works in the spirit of the GitOps philosophy

• Automates and optimizes tools related to our work (most often related to Kubernetes)

• Implements CI/CD pipelines

• Creates tools according to our needs and requirements

• Holds oncall duty 24/7

We are looking for people who have:

• Linux knowledge (especially Ubuntu) storage management installation configuration admin experience

• Knowledge of the network technologies TCP/UDP HTTP SSL

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies

• Knowledge how to work with these technologies Git Bash Docker/Containerd

• Analytical thinking how to solve problems and drive to do it

• Good knowledge of English (intermediate) you dont need to speak like a British lord but every day youll communicate and write in English

The following are also a plus:

• Automation in Terraform

• Public Cloud concepts and experience: GCP/ Azure / AWS

• Onprem Kubernetes experience (build environments analyze problems)

• Any of these technologies Helm Calico GitLab/Github Vault Consul BGP Argo

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• Our technology stack is:

  • main point of interest: On prem Kubernetes clusters 

  • we also integrate with public cloud Kubernetes offerings

  • tech teams integrations: Prometheus ELK Artifactory etc 

  • we handle all of onprem K8s cluster operations: updates installations maintenance 

  • we are responsible for architecture of backend micro services engine

  • we go from managing services at the IaaS level to diving into drivers and BIOS settings as needed

• We operate on a large scale:

  • architecture composed of over 1 000 microservices divided into domains

  • communication asynchronously over the Hermes data bus based on Kafka (100 000 rps of incoming traffic)

  • traffic between services measured by Service Mesh is almost 2 million rps

• The IT team is made up of over 1 700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences such as DevDays Geekon Code Europe Perspektywy Women In Tech Summit Devoxx Confitura and cocreate a blog:

• Microservices a few thousand microservices and 1.8m rps on our business data bus

• Big Data several petabytes of data and Machine Learning used in production

• We practice Code Review Continuous Integration Scrum/Kanban Domain Driven Design Test Driven Development Pair Programming depending on the team

• To match the scale we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies that accelerate and facilitate daytoday development and we ensure the best Developer Experience to our teams

• Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for managements consent). You are responsible for what you create

• Our deployment environment combines private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure)

• Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github

• We organize Allegro Tech Live event a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI JUG (Pozna d Lublin Wrocaw) WG .Net Dare IT Women in Tech Summit

• We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting) our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA) and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge we will always support you

What your weekday will look like:

Every day we have Stand Up where we talk about what we did and what well do. During the day we take issues from the backlog and work on them or fix business critical issues that pop up.

Who are we looking for:

We are looking for a team member who already has real experience of Linux and Kubernetes.
You dont need to meet our expectations to the last point but if you believe this position could fit you please contact us. Strong motivation to debug complex issues learn new technologies independence and willingness to share your knowledge these are the most important things for us.
 

What we offer:

• A hybrid work model that you will agree on with your leader and the team. We have welllocated offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (heightadjustable desks interactive conference rooms)

• Annual bonus up to 10% of the annual salary gross (depending on your annual assessment and the companys results)

• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan you choose what you like (e.g. medical sports or lunch packages insurance purchase vouchers)

• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job

• 16 or 14 MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon processor and 36GB RAM or a corresponding Dell with Windows (if you dont like Macs) and other gadgets that you may need

• Working in a team you can always count on we have on board topclass specialists and experts in their areas of expertise

• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your teams work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things

• Hackathons team tourism training budget and an internal educational platform MindUp (including training courses on work organization means of communications motivation to work and various technologies and subjectmatter issues)

• If you want to learn more check it out

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