About Scrawlr

Scrawlr is a company building a software platform and series of products dedicated to enabling alternative forms of communication layered on existing internet content, together with delivering superior monetization flexibility and content ownership for content generators.

We are working on a transformational project that we believe will have a global impact, and we expect our team members to solve complex, unique technical problems daily. Our team members are given a high degree of product ownership, including the latitude to propose and implement approaches that can be divergent from all standard or existing solutions.

We are committed to an environment where we seek and adopt the best possible solution to any problem, evaluating solutions based on merit rather than hierarchy. We are looking for leaders who have the capacity to challenge existing solutions, both from within and outside of the organization, and propose superior alternatives.

Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Software Developer to join our team in building innovative and scalable SaaS solutions. As a key member of our infrastructure team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the core systems that power our products.

Responsibilities

Your role will include, but will not be limited to:

• Creating new and modifying existing infrastructure
• Creating and testing redundancy systems
• Setting up test environments
• Product stress testing and benchmarking
• Collaborating with junior and peer team members and providing technical feedback
• Creating and maintaining automation and monitoring scripts
• Technical onboarding of new team members

Required Skills or Experience

• Four (4) years of relevant work experience in a software development or contractor environment
• Experience with building and managing large-scale Postgres/ Redis instances/clusters
• In-depth knowledge of Horizontal Scaling techniques
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset combined with experience troubleshooting large-scale systems
• Experience with debugging and identifying performance bottlenecks
• Knowledge of security best practices
• In-depth knowledge of Linux systems (specifically, Ubuntu/Alpine)
• Experience with core areas of AWS services
• Experience building and maintaining customised CI/CD workflows (CircleCI or similar)
• Container tools experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience working in the Node.js ecosystem

Nice to Have Skills or Experience

• Experience working in start-up environments
• Creating and managing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or OpenTOFU)
• Solid understanding of building scalable, high-performing systems and services
• Expertise with big data, analytics, machine learning, and data personalisation
• Experience using configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, or Ansible)
• Experience with incident response services and workflows (PagerDuty or similar)
• Experience with the Rust ecosystem
• Experience with PL/pgSQL

Compensation

• Base compensation of $115,000 - $145,000 per year
• Extended health benefits plan

Position Type

• Nature: Permanent, full-time, and in person
• Time Commitment: 40 hours per week, with occasional overtime required
• Location: Vancouver, BC
• Start Date: Immediate

Please note: Candidates must be currently authorised to work in Canada.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.