engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoSenior Software Engineer: Platform
at Flexport
Amsterdam, NetherlandsOn-site
Requirements
- Creating and supporting developers with CI/CD pipelines (Buildkit, Github Actions), build tooling (Gradle, Bazel, npm/pnpm/bun, Go and Cargo) and artifact repositories (Artifactory, ECR, github).
- Acting as the steward of our GraphQL and gRPC ecosystem and make sure our middleware, federation and schema sharing, CLIs, codegen and servers and clients work smooth as butter.
- Making sure engineers can easily use and understand our container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) and observability stack (Openmetrics, Datadog) that engineers rely on to run, understand and debug their services. You Should Have
- Deep full-stack instincts : you're equally comfortable in a backend service, a frontend build pipeline, a Kubernetes manifest, and a CI configuration.
- experience with several of: a CI/CD system (Github Actions preferred), a container orchestrator (Kubernetes preferred), build tooling preferably for more than one language, backend-for-frontend (Graphql preferred), service-to-service communication (gRPC preferred), Metrics and artifact storage.
- Excellent communication : you can run a developer interview, write a clear design doc, and make sure everyone understands what’s going on.
- Experience in data-driven DevX development using metrics such as DORA. •
- Experience with AWS. •
- Experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) at scale such as JWTs, OIDC and fine-grained authorization. •
- Experience with Terraform. How We Work
- We have the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one.
- At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce.
Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering
Benefits
- We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people.
- Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
- Today, companies of all sizes - from emerging brands to Fortune 500s - use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.
- 25 working days as vacation days based on full time employment.
- Health insurance: Flexport offers a collective health insurance plan including a basic package and any available additional packages. Your monthly premium is fully paid by Flexport.
- A defined pension contribution scheme.
- Equity program: every team member becomes a shareholder, aligning our success with yours.
- Parental leave benefit: Flexport is here to support you and your families in one of the most important times in life – the birth of a child! Our parental leave program allows both mothers and partners to take time off from work for pregnancy, childbirth, and to bond with your new child. #LI-onsite
Additional details
- At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward.
- That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it.
- The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world.
- We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people.
- Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.
- The faster and safer they can do that, the faster the world's supply chains move.
- The PSI (Platform, Security & Infrastructure) team makes this possible: we build the paved path and tooling that hundreds of engineers around the world rely on every day to ship.
- This is not a role where you wait for tickets. You'll talk to engineers, dogfood our platform, and find the friction that's slowing us down, and then design and ship the tools to remove that. What You'll Do
- Making the best paved paths and self-serve tooling possible that make the right thing the easy thing.
- Evolving and integrating our IAM solutions and primitives so that everything is easy and secure by default.