Systems Engineer

Job Description

The Technical Platform Teams provide the backbone for the infrastructure and operations of the entire Allegro platform. We build and maintain tools, infrastructure stacks and automation systems that empower over a hundred Allegro product teams and the customer support department. Our work spans the full stack, from private data centers and public cloud solutions, through container orchestration and distributed systems, to tools supporting observability and automation. At the same time, we ensure the performance, availability and security of the entire platform.

By joining us, you will shape critical infrastructure at Allegro. You will design and implement highly scalable, distributed systems, build robust CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to our monitoring and observability stack, empowering business teams to innovate and deliver value efficiently.

The hybrid work model requires a minimum of one day per week of in-office work (Poznań)

We are looking for people who:

• Are very familiar with and enjoy administrating systems from the Unix/Linux family
• Have hands-on experience managing infrastructure in public cloud environments (e.g., GCP, Azure, Terraform)
• Understand and are able to manage Kubernetes clusters and related tools
• Have experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Mimir, Zabbix, etc.
• Possess strong knowledge of the HTTP protocol and its practical use cases
• Are skilled in crafting efficient queries for MySQL, Redis, or MongoDB
• Know at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
• Understand how distributed systems work
• Are willing to develop and update their knowledge
• Know English at B2 level

What we offer

• A hybrid work model that you will agree on with your leader and the team. We have well-located offices (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)
• Annual bonus of up to 10% of the annual salary gross (depending on your annual assessment and the company's results)
• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)
• English classes that we pay for, are related to the specific nature of your job
• Laptop with M3 processor, 36GB RAM, SSD - a 16” or 14” MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs), two monitors, and all other gadgets that you should need
• Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise
• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things
• Opportunities to work with cutting-edge DevOps tools and technologies in public and private cloud environments
• Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)
• If you want to learn more, check it out

Why is it worth working with us?

• We use the latest versions of Java, Kotlin, Scala, Spring, Reactive Programming, Mesos, K8s, Golang, Python
• The IT team consists of 1700+ people who have shared their knowledge so far at many conferences, such as DevDays and Devoxx, and contribute to the blog https://allegro.tech 
• Microservices - scale of thousands of microservices and more than 1.8 million rps on the business data bus
• Big Data - petabytes of data and Machine Learning used production-wise
• We use Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair-Programming depending on the team
• We have an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub and GitHub Actions. As a result, in the very first days you will be able to develop software in a language, architecture and scale that will be limited only by your idea and imagination
• To meet scale, we also focus on building entire Platforms of tools and technologies to accelerate and facilitate daily development and provide the best possible Developer Experience to our teams
• Technological autonomy: you choose the technology that fits the problem (you don't need the approval of all the saints). You are in charge of it afterwards
• An environment combining private Data Centers (tens of thousands of servers) and Public Clouds (Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure)
• More than 100 original open-source projects, several thousand stars on GitHub
• We organize Allegro Tech Live, a 100% remote version of our onsite Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and make guest appearances at the invitation of communities such as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznan, Lodz, Lublin, Wroclaw), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit
• We also focus on development ourselves. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (such as the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), regularly travel to events in Poland and abroad (Europe and the US), and each team has a budget for training and books. If you want to develop or share your knowledge with others, we will always help you

This may also be of interest to you

Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/

Booklet → https://jobs.allegro.eu/job-areas/tech-data/

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