Staff Software Engineer - Platform
We are looking for an engaged and enthusiastic Staff level engineer (Tech Lead) to join our Core API team. We build the foundation upon which hundreds of developers build the Peloton experience. You will join a team where everyone shares a common interest in designing, running, and maintaining our high traffic, mission-critical monolithic API application (written in Python) while striving for simplicity and high speed of development.
The team’s mission is to ensure the smooth functioning of our core API. The team is often tasked with determining the root cause of low-level system issues related to performance, build and deploy failures, security, and more.
Being part of this team will lend you the opportunity to make an impact not just within your team but the engineering organization as a whole. You must be experienced and comfortable interfacing with members of other teams to gain clarity, triage issues, and drive them through cross-functional initiatives.
As the organization scales, we’ll also look to deploy the monolith to multiple regions and also rearchitect it to a more scalable distributed system. Being a lead on this team will lend you the opportunity to make an impact in the execution of such strategic projects.
What you’ll do:
- Be a hands-on leader with focus on delivery of small to large initiatives including guiding the team to make strategic technical decisions to enable delivery outcomes, set expectations with and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Lead architecture meetings and technical discussions with the focus of reaching consensus and best practice solutions
- Participate in breaking down monolithic legacy applications through becoming an expert in our business logic and leveraging new technology
- Identify and drive impactful projects that help scaling, developer experience, enhance security and introduce automation
- Focus on the whole team’s productivity and strive to maximize the impact of the team’s work product
- Lead, coach, pair with, and mentor backend software engineers of diverse backgrounds
- Nurture a culture of ownership, learning, automation, re-use, and engineering efficiency through the use of software design patterns and industry best practices
- Engage in code reviews helping maintain our coding standards
Who you are
- Well experienced (5+ years) in developing high-performance, highly scalable web application systems
- At least three demonstrable experiences in leading the deployments of systems into production
- Have a DevOps mindset and are comfortable with CI/CD tools and containerized applications
- Enjoy triaging low-level system issues and have a knack of introducing automation where you see gaps
- A valued team player in a dynamic, autonomous, cross-functional agile team that inspires others
- Experience mentoring engineers with the team-focused mentality for success
- Experience with multiple database engines (Postgres, MySql)
- Material experience with various web services frameworks such as Spring, Flask or similar
- Have experience using monitoring and metrics to support KPIs and performance of APIs
- Communicate effectively with business stakeholders
BONUS POINTS
- Github project(s) or contribute to open source communities
- Hands on experience decomposing monoliths into microservices
- Hands-on experience designing and building event-driven architectures
- Experience with XP practices such as pair programming and Test Driven Development
ABOUT PELOTON:
Peloton uses technology + design to connect the world through fitness, empowering people to be the best version of themselves anywhere, anytime. We have reinvented the fitness industry by developing a first-of-its-kind subscription platform. Seamlessly combining hardware, software, and streaming technology, we create digital fitness and wellness content and products that Members love. In 2020 Peloton committed to becoming an antiracist organization with the launch of the Peloton Pledge. Learn more, here.
“Together We Go Far” means that we are greater than the sum of our parts, stronger collectively when each one of us is at our best. In order to be the best version of Peloton, we are deeply committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive culture where all of our team members can be the best version of themselves. This work has no endpoint; it is the constant work of running an organization that strives to reach its full potential. As a first step in our commitment, we announced the Peloton Pledge to invest $100 million over the next four years to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world, and to promote health and wellbeing for all, from the inside out.
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