Staff Engineer - Commerce Services

at  The Economist Group LTD

Experience, skills and professional attributes:

• At least five years of commercial experience with Go (Golang) or two years of Go with at least five in another major programming language in which you consider yourself to be expert.
• At least five years of commercial experience with AWS
• Experience building and running an API gateway as a service to other engineers (ideally using Kong)
• Deep understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns and technologies (especially OAuth 2)
• Experience with IaC frameworks (ideally CDK and Terraform)
• Experience with building automated build-deploy and CI/CD pipelines into AWS (ideally using CircleCI)
• Core DevOps skills (shell scripting, UNIX, network design)
• Experience in building containerised and FaaS services
• A deep understanding of scalable web infrastructure, including API gateways, load-balancers, WAFs, CDNs.
• In-depth knowledge of core web protocols (HTTP, QUIC, TLS)
• An ‘SRE’ and ‘systems engineering’ mindset

We are seeking a Staff Engineer to join our Commerce Services team. This is a new team that will specialise in building core shared services that will help us deliver our goal of providing fast, secure and compelling experiences to our global subscriber base. Some of the services we will provide include a globally distributed API gateway, API authentication and authorisation and fast access to data from our core platform.
Accountabilities:
If you can do most of what we are looking for, you could be exactly what we need! Consider applying even if you’re not sure you tick every box.

You will

• Provide technical and task leadership within the team (80% time spent coding).
• Collaborate closely with the Principal Engineer on solution and deployment architectures.
• Collaborate with the staff engineers in other parts of the organisation to understand and progress the technology platform of The Economist group.
• Educate and inform our users and stakeholders (other engineers) about what we are building and how they can best ust it.
• Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development life cycle
• Take ownership of your code in production, including creating and managing observability, alerts and FinOps dashboards.
• Work with our Enablement, InfoSec and Support teams to ensure your code is secure, well-documented and supportable.
• Write maintainable, scalable, high-performance code.
• Configure and deploy open-source products to support our custom solutions.
• Explain and articulate what we do and its value to our subscribers to non-technical audiences.

Experience, skills and professional attributes:

• At least five years of commercial experience with Go (Golang) or two years of Go with at least five in another major programming language in which you consider yourself to be expert.
• At least five years of commercial experience with AWS
• Experience building and running an API gateway as a service to other engineers (ideally using Kong)
• Deep understanding of authentication and authorisation patterns and technologies (especially OAuth 2)
• Experience with IaC frameworks (ideally CDK and Terraform)
• Experience with building automated build-deploy and CI/CD pipelines into AWS (ideally using CircleCI)
• Core DevOps skills (shell scripting, UNIX, network design)
• Experience in building containerised and FaaS services
• A deep understanding of scalable web infrastructure, including API gateways, load-balancers, WAFs, CDNs.
• In-depth knowledge of core web protocols (HTTP, QUIC, TLS)
• An ‘SRE’ and ‘systems engineering’ mindset.