Platform Engineer

Description

Our primary product is our dataset, but building out a great API, a solid user experience, and a ton of mechanisms for accessing that data requires building many pieces of associated tooling, documentation, and libraries. The responsibilities of platform engineers at Crunchbase include Architect systems capable of serving as the brains of complex distributed products. Think in microservices and APIs develop and expand our ecosystem of composable, reusable, isolated, single purpose services. Create highly testable and rocksolid service implementations. Make important engineering decisions that balance numerous nonengineering factors with technical considerations. Continuously measure and optimize the performance, effectiveness, and uptime of backend services participate in a data driven culture. Research, prototype, and implement solutions to thorny big data and scale problems using the best available tools. Thrive in a rapidly changing environment, continuously working to adapt our process to new circumstances.Qualifications Solid understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals. Motivated to participate in ongoing learning and growth through pair programming, code reviews, application of new technologies and best practices. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Familiarity with tools we presently use is a plus, but not required if you know something better, we may use that instead!