Platform Engineer

Job Summary

VIZ Media the world leader in Englishlanguage versions of manga and anime (Japanese comics and animation) is looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Engineering team. The Platform Engineer works embedded with the software development team to help manage the operational aspects of our proprietary production software systems (including both external customerfacing systems and homegrown internal systems for metadata management and reporting).

Key facets of this role include working closely within the dev team to plan and manage daytoday software deployment activities among our AWShosted systems; monitoring cloud resource consumption and performance and working with the greater dev team to notify of and address issues and concerns; helping to maintain and improve our deployment processes and automation techniques; assisting with managing our sourcecontrol and CItest settings to facilitate sound softwaredevelopment process; and helping plan and budget for infrastructure needs to support new product and feature requirements.

What youll do:

1. Play a technical operations role within our software development team
2. Assume daytoday developmentoperations responsibilities in collaboration with dev management to bring new products and features to market help diagnose system problems and turn around solutions
3. Contribute to evolving our software deployment tools as part of continual efforts to improve the operational efficiency of our software development & deployment processes
4. Collaborate with the dev team and others across the company to identify and refine requirements for the software platform and systems
5. Contribute to implementation of key infrastructure and subsystems
6. Provide recommendations to management concerning issues of programmer productivity and software development process
7. Contribute to the evolution of the teams technical infrastructure (e.g. repository build system testingsystem)
8. Work closely with other members of engineering and IT teams

Ideal Experience and Training:

Must Haves:

• A solid foundation in computer science with strong competencies in data structures algorithms and software design
• Experience with Amazon Web Services
• Experience with managing the full stack of a software application in a cloudbased infrastructure
• Proficiency with relational databases
• Proficiency with popular application programming languages (Ruby/Rails)
• Proficiency with Web/HTML5 (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) technologies
• Ability to complete a technical project independently and as part of a team
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple projects simultaneously manage time effectively and meet deadlines
• Ability to communicate and interact professionally with culturally diverse clients providers and staff

Preferred but not Required:

• 6 years of engineering experience ideally in media companies or related industries
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience with a record that demonstrates suitable preparation for this position
• Experience with Google GCP
• Experience with hightraffic production systems
• Experience with web browser or mobileapp engineering
• Experience with NoSQL databases

Work Environment & Schedule

Location: The Platform Engineer position is open to candidates located in California New Jersey New York Oregon or Texas. If the Engineer is local to the San Francisco Bay Area VIZ Media operates on a hybrid schedule with 1 day of work onsite at our downtown San Francisco office expected weekly. Otherwise this will be a remote position.

Schedule: This is a Regular FullTime position (40 hours per week) with core hours of 10 am to 4 pm with some flexibility as needed. The Platform Engineer may need to work late or on weekends and be oncall for emergencies on occasion.

Compensation: $120000 $145000 annually depending on experience with additional variable compensation