Staff Software Engineer (Back-end, DevTooling) - Prague, Czechia
Outreach
Software Engineering
Prague, Czechia
About the Team
The DevTooling team is an internal-facing platform team dedicated to enabling the entire engineering organization to do better, faster, and safer software engineering, through the development of tooling, services, processes, documentation, or whatever else is helpful. This wide and intentionally vague charter encompasses a slew of evolving topics. We try to proactively get ahead and build the tooling, systems and training needed for all our engineering teams to be successful.
Primary areas of coverage:
▪ Development environment tooling
▪ Service development framework and libraries for CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment)
▪ Dev machine setup/configuration/automation
▪ Defining and tracking operational excellence standards
▪ GraphQL and Federated architecture knowledge is beneficial
The charter is wide, the opportunities for organizational impact are boundless, and we have your back to try new things and see if they stick and do, in fact, make everyone more efficient.
If this sounds exciting to you, come have a chat - we’d love to talk about what we’re doing here.
The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer contribute as part of this backend team, help offer a great service and experience to their fellow colleagues in the other feature engineering teams. Here you are expected to have a real impact on the engineering platform, helping evolve our technology stack and build reusable components that help the other backend teams. You will have the opportunity to help build Outreach Prague and contribute to the Outreach brand success.
With the wide charter, you may find yourself spending a morning building a logging library, and the afternoon helping a team design an efficient way to run integration tests in a production-like environment. We spend our time alternating between helping our engineering customers with immediate issues and developing features with long-term impact - a great environment if you like quick wins mixed in with larger investments. The wide charter also means there are myriad opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills, both on the technical front and in product design.
If wide leeway to improve developer productivity and production reliability sounds exciting to you, come talk to us!
Location
While we are remote-friendly, we remain an "office-centric" company. This role is categorized as hybrid and it is expected you live in a reasonable proximity to the office in Prague so you would be able to connect with your team on weekly regular basis, attend in-person meetings and company events.
This is a full-time, permanent role, not eligible for contractors and for work from other countries.
Your Daily Adventures Will Include
- Directly contributing to the vision, strategy and roadmap for the DevTooling
- Driving excellence by providing quality code, performance, maintainability
- Identifying common themes in upcoming projects and building common frameworks to help teams build them faster
- Working with engineering teams to find out where we need to invest in more tooling
- Triaging feedback and bugs from users
- Engaging with the open-source community
- Building reliable core service libraries so feature teams can focus on business logic
Our Vision of You
- Experience working on CI/CD systems
- Experience maintaining shared libraries, especially open-source libraries
- Experience with container-based workflows and services, preferably in Kubernetes
- Experience building production monitoring to track service and website health
- Working knowledge of GOlang or interest in ramping up quickly
- Not afraid of using bash scripting extensively
- Some level of familiarity with Typescript, Python, and Ruby (used elsewhere in the company)
- Great communications skills in English
- You embody our core values: we are trusted advisors, we win as one team and we take ownership