Senior Systems Engineer

Kargo creates breakthrough cross-screen ad experiences for the world’s leading brands and publishers. Every day, our 600+ employees bring the power of their creativity and diversity to radically raise the bar on what mobile, CTV, AI, social, and eCommerce can do to build businesses. Now 20 years strong, Kargo has offices in NYC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, Sydney, Auckland, London and Waterford, Ireland. Humble brag: In 2025, Kargo was recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In.

Who We Hire

Success takes all kinds. Diversity describes our workforce. Inclusion defines our culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or other legally protected status. Individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Job Type: Permanent
Job Location: New York
Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000

The Opportunity

As a Senior Systems Engineer at Kargo, you will be responsible for building the very foundation on which our engineering department and its products will run. You will be engineering our cloud infrastructure to be durable, scalable, and easy to manage

The Daily To-Do

• Improve the scalability and durability of our systems via regular infrastructure updates. We’re cloud first and hosted on Amazon Web Services.
• You will be working within Kargo’s Kubernetes environment on AWS to build infrastructure across regions that deliver services as quickly as possible.
• Help the data engineering team deploy data streaming solutions to aid in real-time collection of data to be used by our machine learning services.
• You will be helping to set up and manage continuous integration tools like Travis-CI to ensure proper testing across Kargo’s software.
• You will identify and initiate investigations into new technologies, prototype and test infrastructure solutions, and design and validate production designs that help all engineers get the job done.
• You will be tasked with continuously finding new ways to improve Kargo’s infrastructure stack and internal services that the development team uses on a day to day basis.
• You will be up for scripting and writing code when necessary or in between systems tasks in order to help the team.
• Take ownership over the monitoring and logging tools that the rest of the department will use to gain insight into our environments (InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana)

Qualifications :

• B.S or higher in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics (or equivalent work experience)
• Have worked with a cloud provider for at least 5 years. Bonus points for AWS experience.
• Heavy experience with Docker in a production environment using a clustering product like Kubernetes, ECS, Mesos, Swarm etc.
• Proficient in a Linux environment, including experience with scripting.
• Programming skills in at least one of the major scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby,
• Node, etc)
• Knowledge of all major Web standard protocols, web servers (Apache/Nginx) and load balancing.
• Experience designing a continuous integration/deployment process from scratch, whether via Jenkins, Travis, Circle, Bamboo, or TeamCity, etc.
• Experience managing large scale data storage and processing systems such as Apache Hadoop, Aerospike, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, or Amazon Redshift
• You need robust communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. You should be skilled at explaining complex design ideas in a clear and engaging manner.

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