Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

at Stitch Fix

REMOTE, USA

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Cloud Platform Team is within the Platform organization, whose mission is to enable excellence across the organization by taking full advantage of AWS capabilities in a uniform way to provide critical core services. This team is responsible for evolving our AWS usage along with common services needed by the entire department, such as cluster management, configuration and secrets management, and deployments. We’re looking for engineers who are motivated to take full advantage of what cloud providers offer, but are also passionate about building other services and tools that complement cloud offerings and ensure departmental productivity.

ABOUT THE ROLE

In this role you’ll be organizing and improving our usage of core AWS services, as well as building additional infrastructure and tools to support our work in the Platform department. The team’s charter is to manage and support infrastructure and tooling that are likely to be used by all of the Platform organization. The team will be responsible for developing, configuring, instrumenting, and managing change for the following within the Platform team:

• Core AWS organization: VPCs, security groups, cluster provisioning
• EKS cluster management and future vision
• Base AMI and docker images
• Automation and Deployment of infrastructure
• Infrastructure as code tool (e.g Terraform) that you can version, reuse, and share
• Common concerns including monitoring infrastructure and configuration management

The role is an ideal fit for engineers who enjoy a mix of coding and development along with managing infrastructure. As an early member of our team, you’ll help us shape its role within the Platform organization, and enable the team to expand responsibilities and set our vision for the future.

YOU’RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE YOU WILL…

Some typical projects you might work on include (but aren’t limited to!):

• Management of various compute clusters including EKS and developing the future vision for their use
• Develop tools and services for provisioning and managing AWS resources and provide common instrumentation for monitoring
• Consolidate deployment infrastructure and base image building and usage (including AMI and docker images)
• Manage common concerns for platform including monitoring infrastructure and configuration management, which can include building custom services and tools as well as leveraging 3rd party tools
• Organize and plan for core AWS resources including VPCs, security groups, and cluster provisioning
• Many of the changes we need would also benefit others in the big data community. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute back.

WE’RE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE…

• 5+ years of software development and infrastructure experience with significant contributions
• 3-4 years of experience working with AWS or other cloud providers, especially with provisioning resources and change management
• Programming and development aptitude, along with a commitment to high code quality.
• Comfortable designing, building, and deploying common infrastructure such as monitoring and configuration/secrets management.
• Organizational ability to consolidate requirements from multiple sources and develop common solutions for the entire Platform organization.
• Strong communication to collaborate with other platform team members on common technical concerns and evangelize new ideas.
• Natural curiosity and tendency to get excited to dig in and understand how things work.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE WORKING AT STITCH FIX…

• We are a group of bright, kind people who are motivated by challenge. We value integrity, innovation and trust. You’ll bring these characteristics to life in everything you do at Stitch Fix.
• We cultivate a community of diverse perspectives— all voices are heard and valued.
• We are an innovative company and leverage our strengths in fashion and tech to disrupt the future of retail.
• We win as a team, commit to our work, and celebrate grit together because we value strong relationships.
• We boldly create the future while keeping equity and sustainability at the center of all that we do.
• We are the owners of our work and are energized by solving problems through a growth mindset lens. We think broadly and creatively through every situation to create meaningful impact.
• We offer comprehensive compensation packages and inclusive health and wellness benefits.

ABOUT STITCH FIX

We’re changing the industry and bringing personal styling to every body. We believe in a service and a workplace where you can show up as your best, most authentic self. The Stitch Fix experience is not merely curated—it’s truly personalized to each client we style. We are changing the way people find what they love. We’re disrupting the future of retail with the precision of data science by combining it with human instinct to find pieces that fit our client’s unique style. This novel juxtaposition attracts a highly diverse group of talented people who are both thinkers and doers. This results in a simple, yet powerful offering to our customers and a successful, growing business serving millions of men, women and kids throughout the US and UK. We believe we are only scratching the surface and are looking for incredible people like you to help us boldly create our future.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Our anticipated compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets, and the range below indicates the low end of the lowest-compensated market to the high end of the highest-compensated market. This position is eligible for new hire and ongoing grants of restricted stock units depending on employee and company performance. In addition, the position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external careers site.

Salary Range

$218,000—$232,000 USD

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