Cloud Platform Engineer

Mentimeter is an engagement tool with a clear goal in mind. To turn presentations into conversations. Through real-time interactivity and clear visualizations, we get people to participate, engage and become more productive. Transforming all those passive meetings, airless classrooms and drawn out trainings into valuable and memorable moments.

We truly believe that you achieve the best results by doing things together. And that successful leaders need to adopt a curious and collaborative mindset in order to get there. So with you at Mentimeter, you’ll be a big part of the ambition to help over 1 billion people listen, learn and work better together.

We are looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us in scaling both our infrastructure and tooling to support more users and our growing product engineering organization.

What you'll do

As a Cloud Platform Engineer at Mentimeter you will be a part of our Platform team,  a team responsible for enabling product teams by providing a highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure platform. 

You will work within an important function of the engineering organization, actively participating in technology choices and shaping our platform. Your team's work will empower our Product teams to run their code in a scalable and secure manner. This will involve close collaboration with other teams to ensure we set our engineering department up for success.  Your team’s success will greatly impact Mentimeter, our engineers’ productivity, and developers’ experience. 

Daily tasks will involve addressing various scalability and reliability challenges in AWS and iterating on building a robust monitoring system for our production systems in collaboration with your team. You will work extensively with AWS, Terraform, DataDog, and infrastructure. Your responsibilities will include managing incidents, conducting thorough post-mortems to learn from them and prevent future occurrences, solving platform issues, and thinking ahead to build for the future in order to support the exponential growth of our company.This position offers the opportunity to grow your skills and expertise as a Platform Engineer by addressing challenging problems and learning from the outcomes.

Technologies that you’ll be exposed includes AWS, Terraform, Ruby, Typescript, Cloudflare and Datadog, among others.

 

Skills & Requirements

Who you are

You will have experience as a software developer and an interest in platform engineering. We believe you have in-depth experience with cloud architectures and specifically AWS. You should also be proficient in Terraform for infrastructure as code, both in terms of hands-on implementation but also promoting best practices and efficiency. An interest in reliability and observability is a plus.

You have a keen interest in cloud technologies and improving engineering experience together with your team. You need to be interested in teamwork, problem solving, being a good communicator and evangelizing the solutions your team implements.

 

Lastly you should be interested in the opportunity to work in an international environment with 50 different nationalities,  where there’s lots of learning opportunities and room to grow.

What Mentimeter can offer
At Mentimeter we can offer a diverse and inclusive work environment supported by smart and driven colleagues. We believe in continuous professional development for all of our colleagues and therefore offer access to a leadership program (including external personal coach) and relevant education to ensure that we continue to be state-of-the-art when it comes to innovating and building Mentimeter. Your place will be in a growing company with lots of career opportunities, working on a beloved product used by more than 300 million people. It’s not all about work though, we also offer a very healthy view on work-life balance.

All of this comes attached with a competitive compensation and benefits package, including pension contributions. Learn more about our benefits by visiting our Benefits & Perks page

Culture at Mentimeter
At Mentimeter we believe in giving everyone a voice - regardless of who you are. So we build a platform that does just that. Our platform is not only our product but also our organization. A platform where people feel safe, where differences are embraced, a place where you can have fun. We strongly encourage applicants who are people of color, LGBTQ+, women, people with disabilities, and/or formerly incarcerated people, and a college degree is not strictly required. In order to give everyone a voice, we need to be as diverse as our users.

Learn more about our culture by visiting our Culture page.
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