Lead Platform Engineer
At a glance
Senior Platform & Infrastructure role at Athos. Redwood City · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate $146,057–$210,000 across the United States.
Athos has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
devopsroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Lead the platform team in building APIs, data transformations and database capabilities while keeping production systems running
- Create infrastructure tools for management, monitoring and scaling, and maintain the development and deployment toolchain
- Help engineering and research teams put algorithms into production, support their applications and debug live issues
- Configure and troubleshoot networked application environments, then track team performance against reported metrics
What you bring
- At least eight years of professional software development, including two or more years working with Python
- At least two years managing people, including hiring and leading individual contributors
- Three to five years designing cloud platforms, with practical coding and data engineering experience
- You have led technical work and delivered data platform architectures through to implementation
Who this fits
This is a senior, hands-on platform leadership role that combines team management with coding, infrastructure and production support. The role is onsite in Redwood City.
From the employer
Since our incorporation, 2012, Athos has been translating EMG into a simple and powerful training system. From cueing muscle activations, evaluating movement progression and monitoring the accumulation of stress on your muscles throughout training; our system will help athletes reach their highest potential. By giving athletes and coaches this unprecedented insight into muscle performance, they better understand what the body is actually doing in the days, weeks, and months of preparation for the days that really matter.
We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer who will help define and lead our data platform that includes platform API, web services, data processing pipelines, data security and data warehousing.
YOU WILL:
- Work cross-functionally as part of the platform team lead designing/creating/deploying APIs, new data transformations, managing databases, and supporting production operations
- Lead the creation of tools for infrastructure management, monitoring, and scalability
- Create an inspiring team environment with an open communication culture to set clear goals, delegate tasks and set deadlines
- Monitor team performance and report on metrics
- Lead building and maintaining development and deployment tools for the stack
- Work with engineering and research teams to architect and deploy their algorithms, provide operational support for or new and existing applications and debugging production issues
- Create, deploy, configure, support and troubleshoot issues with networked application environments
OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE HAS:
- 8-10+ years of professional software development experience
- 2+ years of professional software development experience with Python
- 2+ years of management experience hiring A players, leading a team of individual contributors, and enabling teams to do their best work
- 3-5 years of experience with architecting cloud platforms
- Solid CS fundamentals with a range of software development applications and experiences
- Hands on coding and data engineering experience
- Experience creating and managing tools for the infrastructure
- Solid CS fundamentals combined with a wide range of SW applications and experiences
- Proven track record of technical leadership in both startups and large companies
- Strong background in data platform architectures and following through to implementations
- History of success in building or improving systems while supporting existing applications and users
NICE TO HAVE:
- Experience with MySQL, No SQL, Jenkins, Ansible, Node/JS, iOS development
- Experience implementing TDD, CI/CD
- Experience developing infrastructure for big data and Machine learning
- Experience with system monitoring tools and services
- Interest in staying up-to-date on the latest technologies and sports
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Fun, creative and collaborative work environment
- Company paid comprehensive benefits for employees: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, long term disability. Company pays 50% for family medical and dental.
- Flexible spending account, Commuter benefits, 401(k)
- Catered lunches and exceptional snack game
- In-house physical training, mobility workshops & yoga we are a fitness company afterall
- Flexible PTO
Athos is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
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