Lead Engineer
Envato
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Job Description
About Envato
At Envato, everything we do is about empowering creatives to thrive. We help creatives bring their ideas to life with world-class assets, innovative AI tools, and hands-on tutorials. Our values guide our work culture including Community Spirit, Build Our Future, Embrace Diversity, Make It Happen, and Make Envato Proud. Learn more about our journey including our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
About The Role
The Lead Engineer supports the Engineering Manager and the wider engineering team to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of Envato's underlying infrastructure. This role involves long-term platform planning, enforcing best practices and uplifting infrastructure skills across the organization.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading: Drive initiatives for improved reliability, performance, and security.
- Infrastructure Engineering & Architecture: Design, build, and provision new infrastructure including integration with APIs.
- Mentoring: Review code quality and coach engineers directly.
- Availability & Monitoring: Enhance system uptime and respond to emergencies, incidents and production issues.
- Performance, Efficiency & Latency: Implement performance tuning improvements across the stack.
- Security & Risk: Participate in risk assessment and change management processes.
- Capacity Planning: Use monitoring insights to advise on capacity and scalability.
About You
You should have hands-on experience with automated failover, cloud-based applications, Linux administration, and monitoring tools. A strong background in both operations-focused and development-focused work is essential. Experience with CDN providers, DDoS mitigation, automation frameworks, and SQL database management is expected. Preferred skills include building self-healing systems, automated testing of failure scenarios, AWS, CloudFlare, Datadog, Rollbar, Sumologic, and agile environments.
Life at Envato
Envato offers flexible working with a remote-first approach across Australia or New Zealand, the freedom to work from anywhere for up to 3 months per year, and a suite of benefits including connection, learning, home office, wellbeing, volunteer, and parental leave programs.
Key skills/competency
- Infrastructure
- Cloud
- Monitoring
- Automation
- Security
- Linux
- Performance
- Reliability
- Mentoring
- Capacity
How to Get Hired at Envato
- Research Envato's culture: Study their values and recent news.
- Customize your resume: Highlight infrastructure and cloud expertise.
- Focus on impact: Showcase reliability and performance improvements.
- Prepare for technical interviews: Review cloud and automation skills.
- Engage actively: Demonstrate continuous learning and mentoring.
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