Senior Infrastructure Lead
Flip
Other Engineering
Remote
Posted on Jan 17, 2025
Senior Infrastructure Lead
Location: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, remote.
Welcome to Flip.shop, where innovation meets the social commerce revolution! Fresh off our Series C funding round, we've raised $144 million, propelling our valuation to an impressive $1.05 billion. We’re redefining the shopping experience by giving consumers a voice in a space dominated by tech giants. Join us on this exhilarating journey where your technical skills will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of social commerce!
Why Join Us?
At Flip.shop, you’ll be at the forefront of innovation in social commerce. This isn’t just a job—it’s a chance to build infrastructure that empowers our AI-driven platform to scale and deliver personalized shopping experiences. You will have the opportunity to directly partner, work with and learn from the very best engineers and scientists who joined us from some of the leading big-tech companies!
If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where you can develop high-performance systems, we want to hear from you!
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Lead to drive the scalability, reliability, and performance of our recommendation and ads systems. This role involves leading the design, implementation, and optimization of our serving infrastructure to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads. You will work closely with our engineering and machine learning teams to ensure our platform can scale efficiently and reliably as we grow.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design and scaling of infrastructure to support large-scale recommendation and ads serving systems.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of serving and infra systems.
- Implement best practices for distributed systems, including load balancing, caching, and failover mechanisms.
- Collaborate with ML engineers and backend developers to optimize model deployment and serving pipelines.
- Identify and resolve infrastructure bottlenecks to improve system throughput and latency.
- Drive infrastructure automation, monitoring, and incident response processes.
- Guide architectural decisions and technology choices to align with growth and scalability goals.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or backend systems development.
- Strong expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for high traffic environments.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience with large-scale data systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Flink) and storage solutions.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana), and system monitoring.
- Hands-on experience with high-performance serving systems for recommendation or ads platforms is a plus.
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experienced with using node.js for backend development
- Experienced with infrastructure & tools of AWS
- Experienced with message Queue such as RabbitMQ.
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
At Flip.shop, you’ll have the opportunity to build the backbone of our AI-driven platform, working on cutting-edge infrastructure that powers personalized shopping experiences for millions of users. Your work will directly contribute to scaling our machine learning systems, ensuring they run efficiently in a high-performance production environment. This is your chance to have a lasting impact and help Flip.shop shape the future of social commerce.
Ready to Build the Future?
If you're passionate about building scalable infrastructure and driving innovation in machine learning at scale, join us at Flip.shop! Let’s redefine the future of online shopping together.
Compensation & Benefits:
Base salary and total compensation will vary based on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. Please note the base salary is just one component of the company’s total rewards package for exempt employees. Other rewards may include equity, bonuses, long term incentives, a PTO policy, and other progressive benefits.