Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Shanghai)
SmartNews, China

SmartNews is a leading mobile app of news aggregation services. It analyzes millions of articles to deliver the most engaging information with high quality in near-real time fashion to millions of users around the world.

• Operating the fundamental Kubernetes orchestration platform hosting both stateless application services and stateful data platforms for other developer teams in the company
• Providing the self-service continuous integration and delivery platform with a focus on increasing deployment frequency and change stability
• Offering a comprehensive observability platform covering monitoring, logging and tracing

Requirements

• Administration experience in container orchestration platforms, preferably using Kubernetes and demonstrated by the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certificate
• Experience in observability (monitoring, logging and tracing) for cloud-based environments, using CNCF tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, Jaeger or SaaS tools such as Datadog
• Expertise in maintaining self-service CI/CD platforms and supporting techniques like Trunk-Based development, GitOps-based deployments or automated canary releases
• Production experience in at least one programming language, for example Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript
• Business level communication in English

• Strong knowledge of fundamental AWS services with a certification as an AWS Associate or above
• Proficiency in operating public cloud services using infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
• Passion to stay up-to-date with latest industry topics in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), DevOps and the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Knowledge of common application architecture patterns: distributed systems, microservices, asynchronous processing, event-driven systems, and others

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