DevOps Engineer

About Stream

We power experiences for over half a billion users with our Feeds API & Messaging API.

Leverage Stream's Feed API to build the most engaging activity feed without worrying about the underlying storage technology. Advanced features such as aggregation, ranking, real-time and personalization enable your product team to optimize your app’s engagement and retention.

Position

Stream is looking for a backend software engineer to join their development team in Amsterdam. Job duties will include working on Stream's core API technology as well as designing and building high-performance software.

What you will be doing

As a DevOps engineer at Stream, you will be part of the team responsible for our AWS infrastructure. Most of your day will be spent working on AWS infrastructure and taking care of monitoring, logging, security, and automation. You will also work on improving our PostgreSQL deployment, monitoring, and operations for performance and maintenance tasks.

Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. By working together you will learn from each other along the way. You will have an enormous impact on making our API service faster, more scalable, and more reliable. Our AWS infrastructure spans 4 different continents and we store billions of records. For both feeds and chat we run our own distributed K/V storage written in Golang.

Your qualification

• You have strong experience with AWS services
• You have experience with Python or Go
• You have solid experience with Linux and its network stack
• You have experience with hardening production servers for security and performance
• You have worked with Puppet/Ansible/Chef professionally
• You are experienced in working with PostgreSQL

Will be a plus

• Production experience with K8S
• Experience scaling high traffic Websites or API services
• Experience with Kafka
• Raft / Etcd Experience of working as a DBA

Our tech stack

At Stream, we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Here is a shortlist of the technology that we currently use:

• Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python
• Postgresql, RabbitMQ
• AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
• Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
• Redis, Memcached

What we offer

• A team of exceptional engineers
• The chance to work on OSS projects
• A competitive salary
• Company equity
• A pension scheme
• A generous Learning and Development budget
• Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or option to use a company bike within the city
• Gym membership of choice covered
• MacBook Pro or another development setup
• Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
• A generous relocation package
• An office in the heart of Amsterdam or the possibility to work fully remote
• The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups
• The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO