Role Overview:
In this role, you will architect and maintain secure, high-availability cloud infrastructures, applying cybersecurity best practices and managing virtual cloud networks. Develop and maintain internal QA tools. Leverage analytic stacks such as ELK, for proactive monitoring, logging, and performance tuning. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our systems are reliable and scalable. Additionally, there will be DevOps responsibilities, troubleshooting complex issues, and continuous monitoring for platform security.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, implement, and maintain secure, high-availability cloud infrastructures
- Utilize cloud-based analytical stacks (e.g., ELK, Prometheus/Grafana) for monitoring, logging, alerts, and performance tuning
- Apply cybersecurity best practices to safeguard infrastructure, applications, and data, including cryptography and secure communication protocols
- Leverage AI to develop and maintain internal testing and QA tools
- Orchestrate and optimize containerized workloads using OCI Containers and Kubernetes
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, scalable, and efficient systems that meet business objectives
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to networking, load balancing, and container orchestration
- Continuously research and integrate emerging technologies to enhance platform security, scalability, and efficiency
Parallelz Cultural Values
Drive to Win. High Performance Matters: We are inspired by those who pursue excellence, and we work with those who do. Achieving this required hard work, humility, and a commitment to constant improvement.
Challenge the Status Quo. Innovate Constantly: Curiosity drives us. We challenge the status quo and pursue ideas that fuel continuous growth.
Lead with First Principles. Reduce, Rethink, Rebuild: We deconstruct challenges to their atomic level, rethink and challenge assumptions, and pursue deep understanding to create impactful innovations.
Act Like It’s Yours. Own It: Everyone is expected to think like an owner. Taking full responsibility for understanding the inputs, outputs, and context to deliver and be accountable to the results that move the vision forward.
Parallelz is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process.
Required Skills:
- Experience developing backend APIs and infrastructure
- Proficient in Python and Go
- Deep understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, routing, DNS)
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity and cloud security best practices
- Proven experience deploying and managing unmanaged cloud infrastructure
- Experience implementing and optimizing container orchestrators like Kubernetes
- Experience working with analytic stacks, such as ELK
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience writing infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
- Familiarity with database design principles
- Experience with Traefik
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Knowledge of OpenTelemetry
- Ability to develop load and stress testing plans for large-scale infrastructures
- Experience working with pub/sub messaging queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
This is a full-time, remote position. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and an Employee Stock Option Plan.
