About the company
Genies is culture’s leading avatar technology company empowering humans to create their own avatar experiences. To-date, Genies has been widely adopted by cultural tastemakers and has partnerships with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group as their rosters’ “official avatar.” Genies has recently launched its consumer arm via its AR Developer Kit which allows developers to create interoperable avatar experiences for mobile and hardware AR. Their first avatar experience, Silver Studio, allows users to design and exchange digital fashion. Genies has raised $250M from investors such as Silver Lake, BOND, NEA, and Bob Iger valuing the company at $1 billion.
Job Summary
What You’ll be Doing:
📍Team Leadership: Take an inclusive approach to lead and mentor a team of skilled engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment. Provide guidance, support, and coaching to help team members excel in their roles 📍Technical Expertise: Operate as the go-to cloud infrastructure expert for Genies and all of our products 📍Quality Assurance: Manage and maintain our AWS infrastructure using Terraform. This includes provisioning and managing AWS resources, automating AWS infrastructure changes, and monitoring AWS infrastructure performance 📍Technical Strategy: Design Cloud-Native Architectures and optimize applications for AWS 📍Technical Strategy: Profile and optimize for load, latency, reliability, availability, fault tolerance, and observability 📍Technical Expertise: Manage and maintain our Kubernetes infrastructure. This includes optimizing cluster resource usage, cluster monitoring, and troubleshooting Kubernetes issues 📍Talent Acquisition: Strategically build and scale the team through strong recruiting practices and approaches - recruiting is a passion 📍Quality Assurance: Apply best practices in all aspects of service availability including security, testability, and release management 📍Collaboration: Serve as the key partner across engineering on architectural designs and code reviews 📍Technical Strategy: Coordinate infrastructure incident and outage response. This includes identifying and resolving incidents, communicating with customers and stakeholders during incidents, and effective post-mortem management 📍Collaboration: Establish trust within and across teams by creating accountability and a positive work environment in partnership with other leaders in the organization
What You Should Have:
📍Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field 📍Masters degree in Computer Science or related field is a plus 📍 8+ years professional experience as a reliability, systems, devops, infrastructure, or platform engineer 📍Proven track record of leading teams within either an early stage or high growth environment 📍3+ years experience managing teams of 5+ engineers as either a Lead OR Manager 📍7+ years of experience with cloud platforms. e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP (AWS preferred) 📍Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) specifically with Terraform and Amazon Web Services 📍Expert level proficiency in Python and/or Golang 📍Ability to write, debug, and optimize code is a plus 📍Expert level knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized applications, and serverless architecture 📍Expert level knowledge and ability designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting APIs services, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures 📍Strong knowledge of task automation and CI/CD pipeline building 📍Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills and strong ownership 📍Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems 📍Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture
