Infrastructure Engineer

Created on 10-04-2020

Location Tokyo

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Description

About Houzz

Houzz is the leading home renovation and design platform in the world. We have a highly engaged community of over 40 million homeowners who leverage our technologies to find inspiration for their next home project, connect with over 2.5 million home design and remodeling professionals and discover products in the Houzz Shop.

About the Role

We are looking for a world-class software engineer to join our infrastructure team. Our mission is to maintain the stability of the Houzz site for our growing number of users. Our team is working on building systems that will scale with the millions of homeowners, professionals, photos, and products on Houzz. Critical projects will focus on the reliability, security, performance and cost optimization of our key infrastructures, including container platform, storage systems, monitoring systems, configuration management, etc.

What You'll Do

Own key infrastructures that the entire Houzz product is built upon

Maintain and improve reliability of the Houzz site

Secure infrastructures against potential threats

Scale infrastructures to handle ever-growing traffic and feature sets

Optimize resource management towards overall business success

At a Minimum, We'd Like You to Have

Strong desire to work on end-to-end projects that require design, coding, operations and troubleshooting.

Proficiency in common programming and scripting languages (Python, Shell, PHP, Java, etc.)

Good understanding of Linux and some of the common infrastructures: container platform (Kubernetes), storage systems (MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop), monitoring systems (Prometheus, TSDB), management systems (salt, AWS, Terraform), etc.

B.S., M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent

3+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering

Ideally You'll Also Have

Experience in leading projects

Extensive knowledge and experience with large-scale, distributed systems

Experience with load balancers, networking proxies, firewalls and credential management (Vault)