Cloud Engineer
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Cloud Engineer at ad-tech platform TripleLift driving infrastructure initiatives: building self-service tooling, unified monitoring/logging, and improving deployment and cloud-cost processes alongside application teams. Core stack spans AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes/Nomad, Kafka, and observability tools like Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
About TripleLift
We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance.
As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com.
Overview
The Cloud Engineer plays a critical role in driving all infrastructure initiatives within Engineering, directly influencing how we deploy, monitor, and maintain software systems in production. In this position, you will partner closely with application teams to shape system architecture and ensure seamless execution. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wants to influence a major transformation to modernize and build principles and discipline into an established tech stack including both microservices and high-throughput, transactional systems, while contributing meaningfully to the long-term success of the organization.
Core Technologies
We employ a wide variety of technologies here at TripleLift to accomplish our goals. While we are looking for strong engineers that are capable of learning any system, we will prioritize candidates who are already familiar with the some of the following technologies:
- Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, Terragrunt, ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize
- Observability tooling: Grafana, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty
- Cluster services: Kubernetes, Nomad
- Other tools: Vault, Consul, Puppet, GitHub Actions
- Databases: AeroSpike, RDS MySQL/Postgres
- Data streaming: Kafka/RedPanda, Kafka Connect
- Data processing: Spark, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran, AWS EMR
- 1+ scripting language such as Python or bash
- 1+ general purpose, compiled language such as Java or Golang
- Amazon Web Services
Responsibilities
- Build tools that make every engineer more productive and enables self-service;
- Develop a unified system for monitor, logging and error handling;
- Improve our infrastructure and deployment processes;
- Work with each team to optimize their application performance;
- Search for industry best practices and use them to drive our team forward.
- Work with teams to optimize and reduce cloud costs;
Education & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or comparable industry experience
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or developer in the past
- Excellent understanding of common data structures and algorithms
- Understanding of cloud technologies like EC2, RDS, S3
- Enjoys programming and automating repetitive work
- Strives for continued learning opportunities to build upon craft
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to work quickly and independently with minimal oversight
- Ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple tasks
- Able and willing to serve in an on-call rotation for the systems they build
- Desire to accept feedback and constructive criticism
- Strong and demonstrable work ethic
- Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
- Flexible PTO
- 401k w/ employer match
*Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits (subject to the terms of applicable plans/policies/agreements, which will be made available to you after commencing employment).
Life at TripleLift
At TripleLift, we’re a team of great people who like who they work with and want to make everyone around them better. This means being positive, collaborative, and compassionate. We hustle harder than the competition and are continuously innovating.
Learn more about TripleLift and our culture by visiting our LinkedIn Life page.
Establishing People, Culture and Community Initiatives
At TripleLift, we are committed to building a culture where people feel connected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We invest in our people and foster a workplace that encourages curiosity, celebrates shared values, and promotes meaningful connections across teams and communities. We want to ensure the best talent of every background, viewpoint, and experience has an opportunity to be hired, belong, and develop at TripleLift. Through our People, Culture, and Community initiatives, we aim to create an environment where everyone can thrive and feel a true sense of belonging.
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