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Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Employer
The RealReal Inc.
Location
San Francisco, California
Closing date
1 Dec 2020

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Function
Technology
Level
Senior Manager

Job Details

At The RealReal, we are building a world-class DevOps culture by growing and investing in our Cloud Infrastructure team to support the growth of the Company and the Technology organization. You will be exposed to the latest technology, a pervasive data-driven culture, while immersed in a friendly, helpful engineering organization. As a member of a small team, you'll be able to shape the evolution of our cloud technology stack and represent our team to the rest of the organization.

This full time, permanent position reports to the Sr. Director of Technical Operations. As part of the team, you will develop and build our infrastructure and code pipelines. Major projects may include platform migrations, multi-region high-availability deployments, CI/CD pipelines, metrics and observability, and more. Bring your thorough, practiced understanding of DevOps and Cloud to help shape The RealReal's production infrastructure and Technology culture.

What You Get To Do Every Day
  • Design, build, and evolve our production infrastructure, strategically employing automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Design, build and evolve our code pipelines, designing and building automation in order to enable agile software development, using self-service where possible.
  • Collaborate efficiently and effectively with Engineers and Product teams on complex problems involving functionality and scaling/performance. Drive ad-hoc troubleshooting teams towards solutions during emergency production incidents.
  • Advocate for and enforce compliance with 12 Factor methodology in our apps, convincing stakeholders and engineers to use best practices.
  • Lead the technical design of projects assigned, pulling in Technical and Non-Technical staff as necessary.
  • Quickly absorb context and tribal knowledge while ramping up and using that to build or bolster documentation. Turns obscure tribal knowledge into well-known and understood collective knowledge.
  • Keep a strong level of quality and velocity in your work, while collaborating and reporting when appropriate.
  • Exercise and promote security best practices
  • Participate in an on-call rotation on a regular basis and respond to incidents reliably and professionally. Lead technical troubleshooting if necessary

What You Bring To The Role
  • A minimum of 5 years of DevOps or Systems Administration experience
  • Significant experience (4 or more years) building and maintaining highly available cloud infrastructure across multiple regions in AWS and/or GCP
  • A self-described expert in automating repeatable processes using popular languages such as bash, python, or other preferred languages
  • In-depth and expansive knowledge of Hashicorp Terraform
  • Detailed understanding of packaging, deploying and supporting of containerized (Docker) applications using the latest orchestration tools
  • Experience building Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment workflows deploying microservices to production to allow our developers to focus on building products
  • Experience tuning and troubleshooting performance for high traffic web services using diagnostic tools such as APM, browser monitoring, logging, observability, etc.
  • Experience working with Data Engineering and Data Science teams to build out infrastructure to support data pipelines
  • Having worked closely with Development organizations, a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, experience using SDLC-style development in infrastructure automation
  • Strong awareness and understanding of common network protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSL/TLS, and how they are used
  • Understanding of database performance in production with experience supporting cloud-based MySQL or PostgreSQL (ie., AWS RDS, AWS Aurora RDS, GCP Cloud SQL)
  • Extensive use of git and Github workflows and knowledgable about GitOps
  • Knowledge and implementation of Hashicorp tools besides Terraform

The RealReal is the world's largest online marketplace for authenticated, consigned luxury goods. With a rigorous authentication process overseen by experts, The RealReal provides a safe and reliable platform for consumers to buy and sell their luxury items. We have 150+ in-house gemologists, horologists and brand authenticators who inspect thousands of items each day. As a sustainable company, we give new life to pieces by hundreds of brands, from Gucci to Cartier, supporting the circular economy. We make consigning effortless with free in-home pickup, drop-off service and direct shipping for individual consignors and estates. At our stores in LA, NYC and San Francisco, customers can shop, consign, and meet with our experts. At our 10 Luxury Consignment Offices, four of which are in our retail stores, our expert staff provides free valuations. Founded in 2011 and listed publicly in 2019 (Nasdaq: REAL), we're growing fast and fundamentally changing the way people buy and sell luxury - a multi-billion dollar industry. Build your career with us and enjoy 401K matching, health, dental and vision insurance, commuter flex spending, healthcare flex spending, generous PTO, a mother's room, and flexible work hours!

The RealReal is committed to providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants for a position regardless of arrest or conviction records, consistent with legal requirements. 

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Company

The RealReal is leading the way in authenticated luxury consignment, online and in real life at our brick and mortar locations. Founded in 2011, we’re growing fast and fundamentally changing the way people buy and sell luxury — a multi-billion dollar industry. With a team of in-house experts who inspect every item we sell, our commitment to authenticity sets us apart and creates a foundation of trust with shoppers and consignors. Our mission to extend the lifecycle of luxury items is leading innovation in sustainable fashion. We’re proud to promote the circular economy and to be the first luxury member of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious CE100 USA. 

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Location
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