Software Engineering Manager, Core Infrastructure
BuzzFeed is looking for an Engineering Manager to help build and grow the Infrastructure teams who oversee the platform that powers our products. This is a huge opportunity to help shape the way we deploy, and operate production quality systems.
BuzzFeed Tech cares about the engineering experience by empowering through tooling and automation. We share knowledge and improve our systems through architecture reviews, post-incident retrospectives, and documentation of best practices. We build for scale and support millions of users globally, and we optimize for improving the experience of those users and having an impact on our organization.
BuzzFeed has grown significantly in the past few years across our editorial teams and products, with groundbreaking news investigations and new brands such as Tasty. You will join a creative company full of highly engaged people with the ambition to do great things, such as giving a voice to marginalized groups. You would be supported in helping grow our teams and cultivate a healthy environment to make BuzzFeed a happy place to work. Data measurement is embedded in everything we do, and Tech plays a central role in empowering our creative teams — we’d love for you to join us on this journey!
About The Job
We have built rig, our own platform as a service, to make it easy for other engineers to deploy and run their services. In the 2 years since we launched rig, there have been over 100,000 deploys, and we have over 400 services running on it today. However, we’re just getting started!
We're looking for an Engineering Manager with a high level of empathy, who is passionate about creating tools and automation to develop and improve this platform.
You Will
Mentor and manage a team of 3-5 engineers who build and maintain BuzzFeed’s core infrastructure, including the platform that all other services depend on
Lead technical projects and manage career growth for your team
Oversee the operations of your team
Empower the team do their best work, by managing processes to improve workflow
Help translate goals to technical projects
Collaborate with product and engineering in the design and architecture of systems
Be hands-on with code. Perform code reviews and architecture reviews
Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation
Report to Director of Engineering, Core Infrastructure
About You
You are empathetic, curious, and pragmatic
You have compassion and experience supporting, mentoring, and helping people achieve their career goals
You are resourceful
You value and offer high-context messaging, seeking mutual clarity in any exchange
You value repeatability, resilience, observability, and operational simplicity
You work collaboratively to build products
You Are Familiar With
Python / Go
AWS / GCP
Linux (Ubuntu)
Source Control (Git)
Databases (MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, BigQuery, ElasticSearch)
Messaging systems (NSQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
Config Management (Ansible, Terraform)
Infrastructure Tools (Docker, Consul, Kubernetes)
Continuous Integration (Jenkins)
Monitoring / Instrumentation (Datadog, Nagios, Prometheus, StatsD)
Life at BuzzFeed
At BuzzFeed, we believe our work benefits from the diverse perspectives of our employees. As such, BuzzFeed celebrates inclusion and is committed to equal opportunity employment. As a BuzzFeed employee, you can expect:
A supportive, inclusive atmosphere on a team that values your contributions
Opportunities for personal and professional growth via work experience, offerings from our in-house Learning Team, Employee Resource Groups, and more
An attractive compensation package, including salary and equity
A generous and well-rounded benefits program featuring PTO and unlimited sick time, comprehensive medical benefits, a family leave policy, access to mental health platforms, retirement plans, gym and wellness discounts, and much more
No shortage of snacks, catered lunches, beverages, birthday treats... even leftovers from the Tasty kitchens in LA and NYC!