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Systems Engineer - IV (Pipeline Architecture)

Tranzeal Inc.

  • Kirkland, WA
  • 30+ days ago

    Highlights

    This Staff Systems Engineer role owns strategy and execution for ServiceNow's critical developer platforms, including enterprise GitLab supporting 3,000+ users and JFrog Artifactory. PostgreSQL high availability experience, such as Patroni, and advanced networking knowledge, including BGP, anycast, and zero-trust architectures.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationKirkland, WA

    Description

    Job Title: Systems Engineer - IV (Pipeline Architecture)
    Location:Kirkland, WA


    Work Persona:
    • Flexible (Hybrid) - 2-3 days in the office at San Diego, CA or Kirkland, WA office.
    • Screening - All candidates submitted must complete the attached screening and attached as a separate doc in Wand. This is a non-negotiable to help speed things up. Anyone missing this will not be moved on for review.
    • Drug Test - A couple of these reqs will require a drug test due to the nature of the work conducted. Please set proper expectations with your candidates to mitigate any delays.

    Duties: Overview:
    This Staff Systems Engineer role owns strategy and execution for ServiceNow's critical developer platforms, including enterprise GitLab supporting 3,000+ users and JFrog Artifactory. The role leads cloud-native transformation, mentors team members, and establishes technical direction for platform engineering.
    What You Will Do:
    • Own operational strategy and technical direction for GitLab and Artifactory platforms
    • Lead cloud-native transformations, Kubernetes migrations, and GitOps adoption
    • Drive architecture for multi-region high-availability deployments and active-active patterns
    • Design self-healing systems with automated remediation and chaos engineering practices
    • Establish cloud-native best practices, including 12-factor apps, containerization, and observability
    • Mentor team members on automation patterns and cloud-native architectures
    • Influence organizational standards for platform engineering and developer experience
    • Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-assisted operations, eBPF, and service mesh
    • Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with a continuous improvement focus
    Skills: Required:
    • BS in computer science or equivalent experience
    • 7+ years operating and architecting enterprise-scale platforms
    • 5+ years of self-managed GitLab experience, including Geo, high availability, and disaster recovery
    • 5+ years of Artifactory experience, including Hub/Edge, federation, and enterprise deployments
    • 3+ years of deep Kubernetes experience, including operators, CRDs, service mesh, and multi-cluster environments
    • 7+ years of expert Linux experience, including kernel, networking, and performance tuning
    • PostgreSQL high availability experience, such as Patroni, and advanced networking knowledge, including BGP, anycast, and zero-trust architectures
    Additional Requirements:
    • Cloud-Native Expertise
    • Deep knowledge of cloud computing, infrastructure, and architecture patterns
    • Experience with major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and GCP, and their managed services
    • Experience with cloud-native tooling, including Kubernetes operators, Helm, ArgoCD, and Flux
    • Experience with service mesh technologies, including Istio, and infrastructure-as-code tools, including Terraform
    • Experience with cloud-native observability, including Prometheus, and distributed tracing
    • Experience with cloud-native security, including OPA, Trivy, and SBOM practices
    • Production-grade automation experience with Python, Go, and Bash
    • CI/CD platform design experience at scale
    • Experience with FedRAMP IL4/IL5
    • Proven mentorship and team development experience
    • Strong communication and cross-team influence skills
    • Growth mindset, humility, and commitment to continuous development
    Preferred
    • Open-source contributions to Kubernetes, GitLab, or Artifactory projects
    • Experience with eBPF observability/security, WebAssembly, or MLOps
    • Published technical writing or conference talks
    • Developer platform or platform-as-a-service experience
    • SRE practices and chaos engineering experience

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