Gliffy is the world’s most widely used online diagramming platform and is committed to helping people communicate their best ideas visually. We are seeking a Cloud Architect to design and implement improvements to our cloud architecture. You will be joining a collaborative development team that participates in all aspects of scalable web development. From design prototype, to user testing and feedback, to implementation and polish, our engineers are involved to help ensure we build what is best for our customers.
You will be developing significant portions of our web platform and will help guide its growth in the future. If you are looking for the excitement of a fresh startup environment with the stability and proven track record of a profitable company, we would love to speak with you!
What you’ll be doing…
- Propose changes in architecture with an emphasis on simplicity, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Changes to architecture need to satisfy both external and internal customers
- Prototype features that have been validated to ensure they are functionally sound
- Work with our QA team to increase our platform’s automated test coverage
- Mentor and learn from other engineers through pair programming, pull requests, and design reviews
- Refine and document feature requirements with the product team
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to evolve their systems to meet architectural standards
- Speak up proactively when there is something wrong, we can always improve
Basic experience necessary for success in this role…
- 5+ years building scalable web applications on AWS or other Cloud environments
- 5+ years experience developing with Java and/or Javascript (NodeJS)
- Well versed in microservice patterns
- Experience in the field of security and managing public APIs
- Experience with diagnosing and troubleshooting performance issues at scale
- Skilled at defining relevant metrics for cloud base software
- Knowledge of when and how to apply relational vs. NoSQL data stores
- Experience working within a Scrum/Agile environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Can be in our SF office 3 day per week
- Eligible to work in the US without Gliffy sponsorship
Bonus points for...
- Experience working with Real-time Collaboration, SAML, SCIM, or OpenID
- Experience in the field of security
- Experience managing access to public APIs
- Leadership in a previous role
High level 30-60-90 Day Plan…
- By day 30 you will have: Ramped up with the team and technologies. Produced documentation, tests and feature code that are at the core of the Gliffy Platform.
- By day 60 you will have: Participated in getting customer feedback. Refined workflows between services and applications. Collaborated on performance tuning. Prepared services for launch.
- By day 90 you will have: Established expertise and ownership of a section of the platform. Analyzed operational metrics to help improve our cloud architecture.
Benefits of working at Gliffy…
- Dynamics and opportunity of a startup with the financial upsides of a business that has already achieved product-market fit
- Great/unique company culture based around flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days a week.
- Competitive salary
- Shared ownership of the company
- 401K Match
- 2 week office closure during the holidays
- Full medical, dental, vision coverage along with additional perks
- Education and conference allowance
- Working on something that over 30,000 companies use
Gliffy's values…
- Give support, get support: Build yourself up by building up others.
- Show some guts: Do the right thing, especially when it's scary.
- Find your balance: Do what it takes without letting it take it all out of you.
- Grit and bear it: Don't give up; success is not for the faint of heart.
- Be driven by your highest potential: Invite your best self to push past your boundaries.
- Heart our customers, our coworkers, & our fellow humans: We're not perfect but we have heart.
Learn more about Gliffy here: http://bit.ly/2woMOLY Over 11 million people have signed up to use our SaaS application, along with notable customers like Oracle, Twitter, Pandora and Adobe. Gliffy is a cloud based diagramming software tool set used to create flow and organization charts, mind maps, Venn diagrams, database schemas, and any number of visual presentations. We're the rare startup that is actually funded by millions of customers who love us. We've bootstrapped our way to profitability. Gliffy is now focused on expanding and launching our product offerings into new directions, while maintaining the utmost satisfaction of our customers and employees. We’re deeply dedicated to our users and consistently receive high ratings from them.
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