Senior Platform Engineer
Hinge is the dating app designed to be deleted
In today's digital world, finding genuine relationships is tougher than ever. At Hinge, we’re on a mission to inspire intimate connection to create a less lonely world. We’re obsessed with understanding our users’ behaviors to help them find love, and our success is defined by one simple metric– setting up great dates. With tens of millions of users across the globe, we’ve become the most trusted way to find a relationship, for all.
About the Role
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The Platform Engineering team’s mission is to delight our engineers with simple solutions and to advance Hinge’s infrastructure operability. We do so by leading the design and implementation of infrastructure resiliency, expansion, observability, and security improvements. Our impact doesn’t stop there. We create and operate services that internal teams and customers depend on. As Hinge forges towards a global product offering, we will focus on building the next generation of our Platform. Some initiatives and problem spaces on the horizon are establishing a global multi-region architecture, mitigating third-party risks, and providing our partner engineering teams with solutions that increase their velocity.
The Platform Engineering team is a crucial cross-functional team that collaborates closely with all engineering disciplines at Hinge. Our work is challenging and impactful in improving the engineering experience. We are searching for a seasoned and motivated Platform Engineer to join our team in solving some of our complex problems in simple ways.
Responsibilities
- Deliver improvements to our infrastructure, observability, security, and internal tooling across varying problem spaces.
- Design, build, and maintain global, highly available, low-latency infrastructure to service the needs of our customers.
- Partner internally with teams to improve performance, scalability, reliability and observability of our infrastructure.
- Empathetically help teams improve their systems' performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
- Has a keen focus on performance and reliability of infrastructure and takes ownership of solving problems as they arise.
- Leave a trail of high-quality technical documentation of initiatives, postmortems, and endeavor to uphold good knowledge-sharing practices.
- Impart your domain expertise theoretically and practically.
- Join the Platform Engineering on-call rotation.
What We're Looking For
- Prior experience in implementing, configuring and optimizing Kubernetes and Terraform at scale.
- Experience in building and troubleshooting large-scale distributed production infrastructure in AWS or GCP.
- Demonstrated proficiency in working on CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience building global multi-region infrastructure, services, databases and storage.
- Experience in on call rotation and responding to incidents.
- Has expertise in many or all of the following: Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Argo CD, Kafka, Golang/Python or another systems language.
Salary Range
$177,500.00 - $213,000.00 per year salary
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Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
Diversity inspires innovation.
Hinge is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We believe success is created by a diverse workforce of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests, and cultural backgrounds.
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Transparency, candor and humility allow us to focus on delivering outstanding results without getting distracted by ego, gossip or politics.
The skills interview.
Breakthroughs require our willingness to take risks. We strive toward audacious goals, expecting and persevering through setbacks and failures along the way.
The narrative interview.
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We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.
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We remember we’re all human beings first. We keep in mind who we’re serving. We listen humbly and openly. We speak and act with kindness and care. We practice radical inclusion.
What you’ll love about our New York office.
We believe in the power of in-person connection. For full-time and hybrid employees, Hinge HQ is a place to collaborate and get to know each other.
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