Senior Platform Engineer II, Boston MA - Paperless Parts

Who are we: 

From small local businesses to large multinational corporations, when manufacturers use Paperless Parts, they free up valuable time to focus on what is truly important to them. Our customers spend more time with their families, expand their businesses, invest in sustainable practices, and grow as a result of new opportunities. We’re a passionate team that believes manufacturing is a vital component of our everyday lives and the backbone of our economy. We’re dedicated to providing this invaluable industry with a cloud-native platform that empowers the next generation of manufacturers to join the digital age. From life-saving medical devices to critical components that unlock new depths of outer space, our customers produce parts that go into some of the world’s coolest and most impactful products. Without manufacturing, many new ideas never become a reality. It is our mission to enable manufacturers with the technology they need to drive innovation – and our world – forward.

Paperless Parts is a team of motivated and hardworking creators and doers. If you’re looking to have a direct impact on a fast-scaling company that is revolutionizing an entire industry, read on and apply!    

Your Purpose: 

Paperless Parts is looking for a highly skilled Platform engineer with a wide range of experiences.  You’ll help us take our SaaS manufacturing platform to all American manufacturing shops. Together we can change American manufacturing for the better.  As a Platform Engineer, you’ll enable our apps to be highly scalable, secure, observable, flexible, and resilient.  From day one you’ll have the ability to impact our platform. You’ll play a crucial part in the architecture and new features of our platform that services all Paperless Parts applications.  

We’re a small but growing team.  If you have a passion for Cloud native Platforms, we have a place for you!

Who you are:

As an experienced Boston/ MA based Platform Engineer, you have the ability and experience to take our platform to the next level.  You have the skills and confidence to create and execute against an infrastructure and operations roadmap that modernizes our cloud infrastructure and enables our engineers to safely deliver high-quality code quickly and efficiently.

This role offers hybrid flexibility with expectations to be onsite at least 3 days per week. 

This position requires activities that are subject to US Export Control Laws and require US Citizenship or Green Card Holder.

Infrastructure Management

• Modernize and maintain our containerized AWS infrastructure CI / CD
• Automate our infrastructure with Terraform in a Continuous Delivery environment
• Orchestrate infrastructure workflows for developer self-service automation

Observability

• Evolve our observability by enhancing and tuning alarms
• Assist developers with tracing instrumentation
• Recommend observability techniques for new applications

Security, Governance, and Compliance

• To fully meet the needs of our customers, our cloud infrastructure must meet certain government compliance standards
• Support internal and external audit teams to prepare for and participate in security, software licensing, and regulatory audits, ensuring that all necessary documentation and evidence is available and accurate

Company Initiatives

• As part of the Paperless Parts team, further, the company-wide DEI & social impact initiates 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of related work experience
• Self-starter, able to handle ambiguity, navigate uncertainty, identify risks, and find the right people and tools to get the job done
• Proficiency in languages such as Python, Ruby, and GoLang
• Proficiency in AWS and its service offerings
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code, e.g. Terraform is preferred
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Github Actions
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Experience with enterprise monitoring tools such as DataDog
• Experience with APM/tracing tools such as DataDog, Splunk, OpenTracing
• Experience working with enterprise SIEM tools such as ELK, Splunk, or Datadog
• Experience designing test automation on all code implemented through unit testing and integration testing

We recognize that everyone has experience with different tech stacks and cloud providers.  You don’t have to match the above exactly.  If you have the passion then you have the most valuable traits we look for in our team members.