Senior Infrastructure Developer, Shopify
Multiple Teams
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
Job no longer available
Cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform for SMEs
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Shopify's mission is to make commerce better for everyone, so businesses can focus on what they do best: building and selling their products.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with service discovery and service communication
- A proven track record of success in solving software development problems — technical mentorship is a must
- Deep experience building large scale, high throughput distributed systems and scaling web services, particularly those using and analyzing large amounts of data
- The ability to write high quality code in a high level programming language (e.g. Go, Ruby, Java)
- Experience with Site Reliability engineering/ DevOps practices
- Experience leading the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment
- Experience deploying and monitoring a production system at scale in a cloud native environment
- A track record of being a self-starter and a team player keen on mentoring others and growing your own skill set within a fast paced environment
- Experience working on a remote or distributed engineering team
- A commitment and drive for quality, technical excellence and results
- Building services and deploying them on top of Kubernetes and/or Google Cloud Platform
- Participating in an on call rotation and/or site reliability engineering (SRE) experience
What the job involves
- At Shopify, Senior Infrastructure Developers use their expertise and passion to multiply their overall output
- As a part of a team, you will design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at Shopify to build powerful and resilient distributed cloud software
- Merchants that depend on Shopify for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do
- You will maintain a high bar for quality and mentor other engineers
- And of course, you’ll be hands-on in the code and contribute technically
- There are multiple positions available on a variety of teams and we will work with you as part of the interview process to identify which team best fits your interests, needs and experience
- Build routing infrastructure to facilitate resilient and performant North-South and East-West communication
- Build and enhance large fleets of compute infrastructure like Kubernetes clusters and server-less compute to host our commerce apps along with a robust and flexible VPC architecture to enable a geographically distributed resilient network fabric and advanced ebpf-based telemetry for observability
- Expand the reach of our search systems to standardize the way we index documents in different languages and in various locations around the world
- Scale a team looking at solving issues with shopping cart access, configuration plane information and package tracking data using a globally accessible, high write key/value store
- Grow the capacity of our worldwide distributed site reliability engineering teams, consulting with other engineering groups on how to build low latency, highly resilient systems
- Take our observability systems to the next level, expanding and evangelizing the usage of tracing, metrics and structured logging across the company
- Work on expanding our highly scalable and configurable job system to support all of the applications on the platform
- Keep our databases operating optimally using proxies, load shedding, custom routing layers and application transparent sharding
- Build manipulation primitives such as combination and filtering into our streaming infrastructure to allow teams to translate existing data streams into specific business problems
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Prior to Shopify, eCommerce solutions for online businesses were a pretty ramshackle affair, either picked from a poor selection of expensive off-the-shelf products or developed in-house. Shopify was born from its founder's frustration in setting up a store to sell snowboards online. Since then it has grown into the world's biggest eCommerce platform, with over 1 million active merchants using the platform to sell almost anything imaginable over the internet.
Today Shopify has a commanding lead among eCommerce platforms, though it may be threatened by the rapid growth of its rival WooCommerce, which is popular in online stores built using WordPress. However Shopify has made moves to stay ahead of the competition, developing new products such as Shopify Collabs which makes it easier for influencers to collaborate with brands, and offering financing services to eligible merchants to support their business growth.
Shopify has enjoyed strong growth in the years since its IPO, achieving more than 26% revenue growth compared to 2022 in 2023 alone, driven by the continuing shift to online shopping and the improved capabilities of the platform. It will be looking to build on this growth by continuing to develop its range of products and making further strategic acquisitions to support its platform.
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2013
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$15m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.3m
Company benefits
- Great parental leave policies, including a $1000 baby bonus
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Education - We’re a learner’s organisation, made up of PhDs, university drop outs, and everything in between. We learn by doing – doing well, doing not so well, failing hard, and doing better
- Skills - Making great decisions quickly, thriving on change, being a constant learner, building for the long term
- Interests - Professional development, personal development, learning from others, problem solving, entrepreneurship, experimentation
- Achievements - We get to solve problems we’re passionate about, and help entrepreneurs do what they love, every single day. Recognition is icing on the cake
Company HQ
Downtown, Ottawa, ON
Founders
Tobias Lütke
(CEO)Launched an online snowboard shop before shifting to e-commerce and building Shopify
People progressing
Started as a Talent Scout, later becoming Director of Talent Acquisition after nearly 3 years. Was promoted to Director of Product Acceleration after a further 5 years.
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