[Wattpad] DevOps Engineer

at  WEBTOON Entertainment Inc Wattpad WEBTOON Family of Brands

Wattpad is a global multiplatform entertainment company whose vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Every month 85 million people around the world spend over 23 billion minutes on Wattpad to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Our brand banner includes: Wattpad, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Wattpad Books and Wattpad Brand Partnerships. We’re proudly based in Toronto, but our reach is global. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling, and write your next chapter with us!
You will be joining the Core Infrastructure team and working on the engine that powers Wattpad. You’ll get the opportunity to create and work on the infrastructure and processes that powers Wattpad. If you have a passion for high-impact engineering, this is the place to be!
You will be asked to create a robust set of centralized systems that engineers can use to implement secure, performant, consistent code quickly to increase the productivity and happiness of Wattpad engineers. These systems will need reliable, resilient, secure, easy to operate, and cost-efficient. You will also help drive initiatives to extend how our platform will work for the future; enabling our 30M+ users to create and enjoy new stories.
Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second. Our microservices are written in Go and are backed by S3, DynamoDB and MySQL, while our monolith is written in PHP and backed by S3, Redis, Memcache, MySQL (and RDS). At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached, redis and groupcache.

• Managing and maintaining Wattpad’s Kubernetes Clusters and their dependencies
• Working day-to-day in the AWS environment
• Building and maintaining Wattpad’s IasC
• Creating workflows to manage deployments across multiple environments.
• Supporting and guiding developers by creating testing and deployment standards.
• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large-scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems.
• Defining best practices and providing mentorship and support to other engineers.
• Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues.
• Advocating for the adoption of best practices, systems and tools across the engineering org.