Aura
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Scaling & Performance
New York City · Senior · Part-time
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$245kDetected 148 days ago
PythonRubyRailsDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsMachine LearningComputer VisionIncident ResponseExcelMentoring
About the role
- Aura turned the digital frame into a private social network for more authentic, real-world connection between our closest loved ones.
- Instantly share photos and videos from anywhere in the world to your loved ones' homes through our easy-to-use apps, beautifully displayed on premium Wi-Fi frames.
- Aura is the most recommended digital frame by independent reviewers, and the only digital frame recommended by The New York Times Wirecutter.
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement sharding in our PostgreSQL backed Rails api
- Lead initiatives to improve system reliability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Build a world where people feel closer to their loved ones every day.
- Aura is often given as a gift, so our infrastructure must support rapid scalability on holidays.
- We're constantly building new software and hardware products while improving our existing ones.
Requirements
- Experience in low-latency async distributed systems
- Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including compute, storage, networking, and database services
- Experience at a startup with fewer than 100 employees
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- Hands-on experience with reliability engineering practices: SLIs, SLOs, monitoring, alerting, and incident management
- Because You Matter: We believe in creating a happy and supportive work environment, so you can both excel at your job and actually enjoy coming into work each day.
- Deep experience scaling consumer applications and infrastructure to tens of millions of users
- Strong coding skills in Ruby, Python, or similar languages
Compensation
- for this role will be in the $180,000 - $245,000 range.
- Aura fully matches the first 4% of your salary contributed
Benefits
- 📈 Generous stock option program - begins vesting after 1 year
- 🏥 Comprehensive health plans
- 💪 $150 monthly fitness allowance - gym, coaching, etc
- 🏝 Flexible time off - and you're required to take at least 10 days off each year
- We apply computer vision and machine learning technology to hundreds of millions of photos to help filter, layout, suggest, and display users' photos.
- Benefits may differ for part-time or international roles.
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