WELCOME TO THE AGENTIC COMMERCE ERA

At Commerce, our mission is to empower businesses to innovate, grow, and thrive with our open, AI-driven commerce ecosystem. As the parent company of BigCommerce , Feedonomics , and Makeswift , we connect the tools and systems that power growth, enabling businesses to unlock the full potential of their data, deliver seamless and personalized experiences across every channel, and adapt swiftly to an ever-changing market. Simply said, we help businesses confidently solve complex commerce challenges so they can build smarter, adapt faster, and grow on their own terms. If you want to be part of a team of bold builders, sharp thinkers, and technical trailblazers, working together to shape the future of commerce, this is the place for you.
Commerce, named a “Great Place to Work” in Australia, a ”Best Place to Work” in Austin, and a “Best and Brightest” place to work in San Francisco looking for a full-time Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. This position can be fully remote in Australia or based in Sydney.
As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Commerce, you’ll work as part of our Infrastructure Engineering team. Our Infrastructure Engineering team consists of a talented group of individuals who specialize not only in web operations and systems administration, but also software engineering. We’re charged with designing the underlying technology stack that powers Commerce stores and building the underlying systems/tools that enable engineering teams to build and ship Commerce services.
We’re looking for an experienced candidate who brings a blended set of skills for software engineering and web operations to our team. In other organizations, you might have heard of this referred to as a “DevOps Engineer” or “Site Reliability Engineer”. We like to believe DevOps is an idea, a theory and a set of fundamentals about how we work and interact within our team, in engineering and for our business.
Currently you’ll find us predominantly working in Golang, Python, Ruby and PHP backed by Puppet for configuration management and Terraform for infrastructure management/provisioning. We operate remote-first and prioritize team over individuals, value innovative problem solving and strive for operational efficiency.

What You’ll Do:

• A software engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help glue infrastructure and software together
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles while leveraging infrastructure automation tools to build, maintain, monitor and operate complex infrastructure
• You understand scalable web architectures and cloud technologies
• Someone who loves to code, and you enjoy working in multiple programming languages. We primarily work with Golang, Python, Ruby and PHP.
• Assist in defining the scope of projects
• You drive issues to completion, marshaling resources in high-pressure situations
• Work closely with your peers to expand your knowledge and understanding of the technologies used in the platform
• Take initiative and work beyond the scope of a task to improve existing systems and code.
• Providing support to the Engineering and Customer Support teams
• Diagnosing and problem solving issues on the platform
• Participate in our on-call rotation.

Who You Are:

Our ideal candidate possesses some or all of the following skills:

• 6+ years of experience in building software for, operating and supporting large Linux based web application environments
• A trusted engineer who has completed either a comprehensive software engineering boot camp, CS, CE, SW, MIS or equivalent degree, or has relevant work experience
• An excellent communicator, who works well with geographically distributed teams such as ours (we are split between Austin, Kyiv, San Francisco, Sydney and remote)
• You’re obsessive compulsive, in a good way. Your systems and scripts are clean, well-documented and comprehensible
• You have a passion for learning, are curious when it comes to working with new technologies or languages and are not afraid to ask questions
• A technical expert who will lead by example
• Experienced with Linux systems administration, including solid scripting skills in Ruby, PHP, Python or Bash
• Experienced with running Docker with container orchestration systems such as Nomad, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or Google GKE
• Experienced with database, document storage and object storage systems
• Experienced with configuration management systems such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible
• Experienced with Infrastructure-As-Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Deployment Manager
• Experienced with monitoring, metrics gathering, error reporting, tracing and logging systems such as ELK, Prometheus, New Relic, Datadog, Lightstep or Sentry

• A software engineer with a curiosity for operations, or an operations engineer that wants to work closely with software engineers to help glue infrastructure and software together
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles while leveraging infrastructure automation tools to build, maintain, monitor and operate complex infrastructure
• You understand scalable web architectures and cloud technologies
• Someone who loves to code, and you enjoy working in multiple programming languages. We primarily work with Golang, Python, Ruby and PHP.
• Assist in defining the scope of projects
• You drive issues to completion, marshaling resources in high-pressure situations
• Work closely with your peers to expand your knowledge and understanding of the technologies used in the platform
• Take initiative and work beyond the scope of a task to improve existing systems and code.
• Providing support to the Engineering and Customer Support teams
• Diagnosing and problem solving issues on the platform
• Participate in our on-call rotation