Cloud Services - Sr. Systems Engineer

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Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories? That is what we do here at HomeAway.com. We are the leading vacation rental website in the world with more than 1.2 million properties listed. We have millions of travelers visiting our site per year and serve more than one billion page views per month.
As for engineering, we solve problems of scale and work on cutting edge and open-source technologies. Our culture is one that strives on solving difficult problems focusing on product engineering based on hypothesis testing to empower people to come up with ideas.

What You’ll Do:If you’re the right person for the job you will be joining the growing Cloud Services team within HomeAway’s Cloud Platform Engineering Team. As a Cloud Services leader, you will continue to drive HomeAway's culture of engineering empowerment. The Cloud Services team enables developer productivity and velocity through an automated Multi-PaaS cloud infrastructure. This platform is rooted in the principle of infrastructure as code and is constantly evolving and integrating new and interesting technologies. You’ll be expected to continually learn and utilize the latest open-source tools available to enable a seamless experience between our bare metal, public and private cloud environments.

What You’ll Get: As a leader, you will be driving HomeAway's engineering culture, by building, evangelizing and supporting the environments used by all of HomeAway's hundreds of engineers globally. You’ll have the chance to drive the development experience on the bleeding edge of cloud technologies. Our ever-growing footprint will give you the opportunity to work at scale while being creative in an agile team. You’ll be joining a credible team where people go out of their way to help each other succeed. You’ll also get to work with stakeholders across the globe gaining international experience in a fast paced eCommerce industry all while working in an incredible office space!

Responsibilities:- You are responsible for implementing the overall PaaS infrastructure, tooling and support for the multi-cloud platform.
- You will be working with our internal business partners to gather requirements.
- You will be involved in prototyping, architecting and implementing/updating the platform.
- You will build and maintain automation scripts, modules and piplelines (Terraform or similar) to make standing up infrastructure and systems repeatable.
- Developing unit tests, functional tests, and integration test frameworks for distributed systems
- You will be involved in CI/CD pipeline management for infrastructure components
- Performing peer reviews, code walk-throughs, and weekly demos
- You are a self-starter and can work independently on technical projects but also work collaboratively with project team members through an agile
development process that promotes constant team communication
- Utilize your excellent communication skills to assist in conducting user interview sessions, requirements gathering, and design reviews
 
Qualifications:- Development experience - Java Web Applications, Service Oriented Architecture and Micro-Services
- Hands-on administration, config management, monitoring of Software Delivery platforms - Jenkins, TeamCity, QuickBuilds, etc.
- Experience with Java, Ruby, Python, Go, Scala, etc.
- Experience with Mesos, Docker, AWS, Azure, VMWare, etc.
- Committed to Open Source Projects. Please provide Github links if appropriate
- Application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies
- Experience with Artifactory, Consul, DataDog, Kafka, Splunk, Terraform preferred
- Experience with SQL Queries, performance tuning and management of map reduce jobs
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Experience working in an agile team environment
- Understanding of code promotion, DevOps, system administration, Puppet/Chef, and Platform as a Service Architecture
- Conduct code walk-throughs, peer reviews, and produce technical documentation

Benefits:
- Great Medical & Dental Plans
- Highly Competitive salary
- Target annual bonus
- Company stock (RSU's)
- 4 weeks paid vacation
- Free vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
- Ability to work up to two weeks in any of our offices around the world on a yearly basis
- Free drinks & snacks
- Weekly company update talks with our C-Team
- Free listing on HomeAway.com
- Stand-Up Desk

To understand the mission of HomeAway watch our ad by Prince EA, Working to Live or Living to Work, on our YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNRldP18bH8! Visit our Engineering Blog - https://tech.homeaway.com


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