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Platform Engineer

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Vortexa was founded to solve the immense information gap that exists in the energy industry. By using massive amounts of new satellite data and pioneering work in artificial intelligence, Vortexa creates an unprecedented view on the global seaborne energy flows in real-time, bringing transparency and efficiency to the energy markets and society as a whole.

The Challenge

Ingesting data from multiple external vastly different sources at hundreds of rich data points per second, moving terabytes of data while processing it in real-time, running complex and complicated prediction and forecasting AI models while coupling their output into a hybrid human-machine data refinement process and presenting the result through a nimble low-latency SaaS solution used by customers around the globe is no small feat of science and engineering. This processing requires a highly reliable, stable, fault-tolerant infrastructure that can withstand multiple and varied uses and abuses by data analysts, data scientists, industry experts, and the end-users. Fast product iteration cycles necessitate a platform that allows engineers to deploy frequently, independently, and without in-depth knowledge of infrastructure complexities.

The Data Services Team is responsible for the developer platform, and the impressive Amazon AWS estate Vortexa uses to achieve its purpose. This includes two major areas of concern: infrastructure availability, security and costs, as well as developer experience. We use a wide variety of technologies like Kubernetes, Kubevela, Golang, Kafka, Opensearch, Airflow, Athena, and others.

You will be a key member of the small, globally distributed team, instrumental in assessing current technologies, delivering the best possible engineering experience with the shortest development iterations, helping crystallise, converge and standardise technology stacks and implementing the infrastructure roadmap, ensuring 100% uptime, availability, and fault-tolerance of every component of the platform, while optimising AWS costs. You will provide your customers such as data analysts, data scientists, and other engineers with a delightful developer experience tooling boosting their productivity, and allowing them to concentrate on business logic. You will codify and automate any operational knowledge gathered so that R&D can focus purely on creating value for our customers.

You Are:

Determined to create infrastructure that gets out of the way with a great developer experience
Excellent at troubleshooting unfamiliar code.
Striving to be more skilled than Google with Kubernetes
An AWS power user and evangelist
Familiar with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams – deployment, monitoring, resiliency, fault-tolerance, cluster planning and operations, applications debugging
Experienced with ElasticSearch operations and usage
Fluent in Terraform, and Go
Familiar with cloud-native application design and deployment
Not afraid of challenges and infrastructure troubleshooting
A “can-do” person – “I’ve done my bit” has no place at Vortexa

Awesome If You:

Are familiar with Airflow or other workflow orchestration tools
Understand data lakes like Parquet, Orc, Athena

Stock-options in a fast-growing, high-potential business
A vibrant and diverse workplace
An open, collaborative, and supportive working culture built on merit, which celebrates creative thinking and “getting things done.”
The opportunity to work with AI-driven technology in a scale-up environment with commodity trading experts
401k with up to 2% contributions matched by Vortexa
Private Health Insurance offered via Blue Cross Shield
Dental and Vision cover offered via Guardian
Global Volunteering Policy to help you ‘do good’ and feel better

Vortexa Glassdoor Company Review

4.8

Vortexa DE&I Review

3.9

CEO of Vortexa

Fabio Kuhn

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What You Should Know About Platform Engineer, Vortexa

Join Vortexa as a Platform Engineer and become an integral part of a team that is revolutionizing the energy industry. We're on a mission to bridge the significant information gap in the energy market by harnessing satellite data and advanced artificial intelligence. In your role, you will help manage a highly reliable and fault-tolerant infrastructure that processes terabytes of data from diverse sources in real time. You'll be instrumental in ensuring that our platform provides developers, data scientists, and analysts with a seamless experience, allowing them to focus on creating business value instead of worrying about complex infrastructure.Wielding technologies like Kubernetes, Golang, and Apache Kafka, you will drive the shortest development cycles while maintaining robust security and optimizing costs in AWS. You’ll join a globally distributed team that thrives on collaboration and creative thinking, continuously iterating on our services to enhance developer experience. As a Platform Engineer, your troubleshooting skills will shine as you tackle unfamiliar code and learn on the fly, showcasing your determination and problem-solving abilities. Plus, you’ll be rewarded with innovative perks such as stock options, private health insurance, and opportunities for volunteering. If you’re ready to face exciting challenges and elevate your skills while contributing to pioneering AI-driven technology, Vortexa is the place for you!

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What are the responsibilities of a Platform Engineer at Vortexa?

As a Platform Engineer at Vortexa, you'll be responsible for managing a robust, fault-tolerant infrastructure that supports the ingestion and processing of massive data flows in real-time. You'll work closely with the Data Services Team, ensuring 100% uptime and availability while optimizing costs associated with AWS. Your role includes enhancing the developer experience by creating tools that streamline productivity for our data scientists, analysts, and engineers.