JavaScript Job: Production Engineer

About 9GAG

9GAG was founded in 2008 with one mission: Make the world happier. Today, 9GAG is a global cross-platform entertainment network with 200+ million audiences around the world, distributing 8.4 billion video views a month across all platforms. 9GAG is ranked #1 in entertainment & gaming on social media globally, #1 in cross-platform video creation in the US, and the most followed entertainment brand on Instagram in the world. We continue to bring our mission and impact to the Web3 space and communities.

9GAG is backed by Freestyle Capital, True Ventures, First Round Capital, Greycroft Partners, 500 Startups, Y Combinator, and a group of great angel investors in the United States.

9GAG values H2O: Hustle to go all-in to achieve the goal at hand, Humble to embrace the better ideas of others, Open to welcome differences and possibilities. We believe a great workplace combines great colleagues and hard problems.

About the role

You will help design, build and monitor our applications and systems infrastructure that handles billions of page views monthly. You believe in “infrastructure as code”, and have a deep understanding of the software services running on the containers. You love building and running massively scalable production systems. You get excited about reacting to a problem to find a solution to improve systems stability and performance.

As a member of the 9GAG Product Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to tackle the technical challenges of truly big-scale products. Successful candidates must consistently deliver high quality applications, understand the Internet trend, have good communications skills and problem-solving skills. You would enjoy the excitement working in a fast-paced start-up environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other teams to design and build highly-available and scalable systems
• Build and maintain a fault-tolerant platform to operate our services on
• Facilitate the development and deployment of new features through automations
• Monitor and respond to system issues and participate in on-call rotation

Technologies you will be using

• Containerization and orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Programming languages like: Go, Python, PHP, Node.js
• Database engines like: MySQL, Cassandra
• Cloud hosting services: GCP and AWS
• Open source software like: , Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, Terraform
• Data warehouse and data processing: Apache Spark, Airflow

Requirements

• Live our values - H2O: Hustle to go all-in to achieve the goal, work hard and work smart; Humble to embrace the better ideas of others; Open to welcome differences and possibilities
• Passion to build the best, largest, most fun, platform that the internet has seen
• 3+ years professional hands-on experience with building and managing large scale systems
• Solid expertise and experience in managing containerized applications and cloud computing platforms
• Solid expertise and experience in programming and systems automation
• Solid expertise and experience in configuration management
• Replacing yourself with a very smart shell script

Desire

• Contributions to open source projects.
• Active user of 9GAG.

Benefits & Perks

We take care of our teammates to take great care of themselves and their families so we all can perform our best at work!

• 100% remote work
• 25-day paid time off, 20-week maternity, 8-week paternity, plus family/pet care, marriage, birthday Leave, and more.
• US$1.5M Health insurance per teammate
• Life insurance
• Home Office Setup Allowance

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Fixed term contract

Salary: £40,000.00-£50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Remote