THE ROLE & THE TEAM
As part of our team, you will operate, improve, and extend the edge delivery and protection, ingress, gateway infrastructure that powers Zalando’s service landscape. We manage ingress infrastructure for 100+ Kubernetes clusters and handle millions of requests daily, processing up to 5 million requests per second during flagship commercial events like CyberWeek.
Our team maintains Skipper, a modern open source Http router and reverse proxy, as well as higher-level applications built on top of it. This role provides the opportunity to work with Kubernetes, AWS, and Go. You will help to continuously improve user experience, efficiency, and reliability of our products with a strong focus on operational excellence.
Be part of a team where your contributions drive significant technological advancements, impacting millions of customers across Europe.
INCLUSIVE BY DESIGN
At Zalando, our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture, age, or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need, so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
do.BETTER - our diversity & inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy
Our employee resource groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups
WHAT WE’D LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Manage features and services from problem definition through solution delivery and ongoing operations.
Suggest and implement solutions to simplify our systems and reduce technical debt.
Deliver operational excellence, by adhering to design principles such as performing operations as code, making frequent and small reversible changes, anticipating failure, and learning from all operational events and failures.
Understand user needs and contribute to developing and implementing relevant, scalable solutions.
Actively contribute to open source projects as part of your daily work.
Make a positive impact on our engineering culture by encouraging knowledge sharing and driving technical discussions within and beyond the team.
WE’D LOVE TO MEET YOU IF YOU
You have extensive experience in writing production applications in Go, with at least 3+ years of hands-on development.
You write code that is simple, readable, testable, and maintainable.
You are a good communicator within the engineering community, with good verbal and written communication skills in English, able to present your thoughts clearly and structured.
You have a basic understanding of networking concepts like DNS, reverse proxy, load balancing, and routing.
You understand Kubernetes concepts and can deploy and manage applications within Kubernetes clusters.
You have a basic understanding of AWS services including but not limited to EC2, ALB/NLB, and ACM.
You are familiar with CI/CD and have a keen attention to meaningful logging, monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana), and overall operational excellence.
You have a growth mindset and a strong customer/user focus.
You take ownership and accountability in your work.
OUR OFFER
Culture of trust, empowerment and constructive feedback, open source commitment, meetups, game nights, 70+ internal technical and fun guilds, knowledge sharing through tech talks, internal tech academy and blogs, product demos, parties & events
Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
Extensive onboarding, mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
Relocation assistance for internationals
Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us.
If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
