Senior Software Engineer (Platform Engineer), Cloud Storage
Summary
Senior platform engineer on VTEX's Cloud Storage team, building and operating the platform's data backbone as "storage-as-a-service" — SQL (Aurora, RDS Postgres, SQL Server), NoSQL (Redis/Valkey, DynamoDB), search (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr), and S3. Day to day: automation, self-service tooling, IaC modules, sharding/migrations, on-call and SLOs.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Software Engineer on Cloud Storage, you will join the core team responsible for the data backbone of our platform. We are looking for a platform-minded engineer to build and operate an ecosystem that encompasses everything from SQL (Aurora, RDS Postgres, SQL Server) and key-value stores (Redis/Valkey, DynamoDB) to Search Engines (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Apache Solr), Object Storage (S3), and network file storage (EFS).
You will work in a squad of infrastructure and software engineers, acting as a true Platform Engineering team. The mission is not just to keep the databases running flawlessly, but to drastically increase developer velocity. You will achieve this by building autonomous "storage-as-a-service" environments, creating self-service tooling, and maintaining the integration libraries, proxies, and SDKs that allow our product squads to ship features faster and with confidence.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Build the Storage Platform: Design, build, and operate the services, proxies, and automation behind our SQL, NoSQL, Search, and Object Storage offerings, applying software engineering principles to operations.
- Scale the Data Layer: Work on sharding, replication, capacity planning, Multi-AZ resilience, and large-scale migrations (e.g., SQL Server from Windows to Linux) in a high-volume, multi-tenant environment.
- Build for Developer Velocity: Treat infrastructure as a product. Build integration libraries, APIs, IaC modules, and "golden paths" that reduce cognitive load for developers and accelerate product delivery.
- Ensure Extreme Reliability: Own high availability, performance, and resilience across the data layers: take part in on-call, drive incident follow-ups, and define SLOs and burn-rate alerts.
- Eliminate Toil: Identify operational bottlenecks and replace manual requests with automated, self-service solutions.
WHO YOU ARE
- Strong Engineer: You have a solid background in Software Engineering and Platform/Infrastructure engineering, knowing how to apply software principles to operations.
- Senior IC: You are a Senior Software Engineer (L3 level) with a proven track record of delivering complex technical projects end to end, from design to production, and raising the bar for the engineers around you.
- Domain Expert: You have deep, hands-on experience dealing with massive scale across diverse data engines: Relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, Aurora, SQL Server), NoSQL (e.g., Redis/Valkey, DynamoDB), Search (e.g., Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr), and Object Storage, including performance tuning and production troubleshooting.
- Product-Minded: You understand that your customers are other developers. You have experience building integration libraries, IaC modules, or internal developer platforms.
- Forward-Thinking: You are hands-on and curious about using AI/LLMs, automation, and modern dev tools to boost your team's speed and quality, while staying thoughtful about responsible use.
- Global Communicator: Fluent English; you are capable of collaborating effectively in a fast-paced global environment.
#LI-Remote
About VTEX
VTEX (NYSE: VTEX) is the composable and complete commerce platform that delivers more efficiency and less maintenance to organizations seeking to make smarter IT investments and modernize their tech stack. Through our pragmatic composability approach, we empower brands, distributors, and retailers with unparalleled flexibility and comprehensive solutions, enabling them to invest solely in what provides a clear business advantage and boosts profitability. VTEX is trusted by 2,400 global B2C and B2B customers, including Carrefour, Colgate, Motorola, Sony, Stanley Black & Decker, and Whirlpool, having 3,400 active online stores across 43 countries (as of FY ended on December 31, 2024).
Founded in the year 2000, VTEX has a history of being unstoppable. Completely against the odds, VTEX is leading a high-tech industry and positioned above market giants. We are building an extraordinary future with more than 1,300 employees scattered across 25 locations in 16 countries in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information, visit .
At VTEX, you will work in a challenge-driven environment and collaborate with amazing peers. If you are powerful individually, join us, and we will be unstoppable together.
BENEFITS
- Annual profit-sharing program and equity eligibility;
- Health, dental, and life insurance with national coverage provided by VTEX;
- Annual budget for professional development in Tech;
- Language development incentive program (English, Spanish, Portuguese);
- Flexible meal allowance;
- Extended parental leaves;
- Child-care assistance;
- Flexible work schedule and remote-first culture;
- Financial assistance to build your work-from-home setup;
- Wellness program;
- Free shipping on 1000+ VTEX stores
Skills
As published by greenhouse · 12 questions · 3 written answers
Basics
First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV
Short answers (2)
- LinkedIn Profile optional
- Website optional
Pick from a list (7)
- We encourage AI on the technical work: in the take-home and the live coding, build, refactor, and test with the assistant you'd really use. The rule there: you understand and can explain everything you produce. What's not allowed is AI standing in for you when we're assessing your thinking: tools that listen to the interview and generate answers for you to read, real-time answer or transcription assistants, or anything that speaks or reasons in your place. Those conversations exist to understand how you reason, not how a tool does.
- On Data Privacy
- Do you agree that this interview may be transcribed using artificial intelligence tools? | Você concorda que esta entrevista poderá ter sua transcrição gerada por ferramentas de inteligência artificial?
- Are you fluent in Portuguese?
- I declare that I am able to communicate functionally in English and acknowledge that this skill will be assessed during the hiring process.
- Are you based in Brazil?
- Do you have hands-on experience in managing, provisioning, and ensuring the resilience of critical production cloud infrastructure, working with container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), complex networking (VPC, Load Balancers, Gateways), or GitOps/IaC (Terraform, Pulumi, ArgoCD)?
Written answers (3)
- Do you have any special needs that we should be aware of in order to accommodate you during the recruitment process? Feel free to specify which one in affirmative case.
- Do you have any family members currently working at VTEX? If so, please list their names and their positions.
- Do you have any close friends or relatives who are Public Officers? If so, please list their names and their position in their government agency.
