SiftConsultancy – Backend Platform Engineer – AWS/Golang/Python

Sift Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is an IT services and business solutions company, playing an integral role in our clients’ growth strategy. We provide creative solutions to clients around the world, that can simplify, strengthen and transform their businesses. We are hiring partners for (Pantheon Inc.) https://pantheon.io and currently, they are looking for a Backend Platform Engineer to join their team in Bangalore.Cool Stuff You’ll Do :-

Improve visibility into how distributed services interact and scale in production-

Implement shared infrastructure used by all engineering teams-

Close collaboration with other engineering teams to deliver platform improvements and provide subject-matter-expertise for other technical initiatives-

Continuous improvements to our standard of engineering excellence by implementing best practices for coding, testing, deploying and communication-

Execute disaster recovery drills-

Implement proofs-of-concept, prototypes, and systems at scale What You Bring To The Table :-

Knowledge of large-scale, high traffic platforms and the design of scalable, robust services in the real world-

Experience with Infrastructure as code tooling (e.g., Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Pulumi, Vault, etc)-

Experience programming in one or more of the following: Go, Python, Ruby, C, C++, Java, etc-

Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals (e.g., filesystems, system calls, namespaces, containers)-

Knowledge of large-scale, high traffic platforms and the design of scalable, robust services in the real world-

Experience with analyzing and troubleshooting systems.-

Understanding of standard networking protocols and components such as: TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, IP Subnetting, and Load Balancing-

Passion, integrity, and humor that makes our team better as a whole Bonus points for :-

Experience developing software services spanning multiple data centers-

Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)-

Experience with Linux containerization technology at scale (cgroups, namespaces, podman, runc, Docker)-

Experience with using (or choosing not to use!) Kubernetes, Cassandra, systemd, Elasticsearch, Twisted Python, Redis and MariaDB-

Polyglot chops: we code in Go, Python, Ruby, and C-

Diversity of thought and experienceAbout Pantheon :Pantheon is the only WebOps platform built from the ground up for agility. We help our customers win, where digital experience starts and matters most – their websites. We empower teams of developers, marketers, and IT professionals to focus on delivering business results while Pantheon handles uptime, performance, scalability and security. We are the fastest growing Drupal and WordPress platform in the world, powering over 200,000 sites and serving billions of pages every month. Happy customers include some of the most recognized names in high tech, higher education and NGO, such as Patch, Apigee, UC Berkeley, Arizona State University, and the United Nations.With 35% of the web running open source, we are growing aggressively into a huge market opportunity and looking to expand our engineering team. That’s where you come in.We’ve got depth and breadth across the technologies we use to run the Pantheon platform at scale. You’ll have many opportunities to pick up and apply new skills and gain professional experience with some of our existing use of Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, React, Node.js, Python, Golang, C, Chef, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, CircleCI, React and more. (ref:hirist.com)