Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Remote opportunity based out of Nebraska, Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Indiana, Illinois or Ohio with required quarterly travel to Omaha HQ*

Job Description

Workshop is looking for a Platform Engineer to help scale our infrastructure that sends millions of customer emails. We are on pace to substantially grow this year, but need a motivated engineer to help bring our platform to the next level. 

As a Platform Engineer, you will:

• Establish and continuously improve our monitoring systems so incidents are not only detected, but also prevented
• Work to scale infrastructure that is responsible for sending and measuring millions of customer emails in order to support our largest  customers and save costs
• Work closely with our product engineering team to support and manage database performance
• Support product engineers to deliver new features quickly and reliably
• Participate in on-call responsibilities

To be successful at this position, you will need to:

• Have experience setting up logging and monitoring internal and third party systems to proactively scale resources and prevent incidents 
• Have experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, statsd, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar
• Have experience with production services on cloud services such as AWS, GCP, or similar 
• Be passionate about optimizing and automating systems when you can
• Be biased towards action by focusing on  iterative development and the importance of delivering continuous value to customers
• Communicate and collaborate well with software  engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Be flexible,  pragmatic and enjoy helping a small team get a big job done
• Experience managing PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch is a plus

Compensation and benefits:

• Highly competitive compensation
• Healthcare
• Stock options
• 401k
• Unlimited vacation
• Flexible work environment

About Workshop

Workshop is a fast growing, venture-backed startup based in Omaha, Nebraska and we’re on a mission to create more happy Mondays for employees everywhere. We build software to help internal communications teams create, send, and measure multi-channel, employee-centric campaigns.