More about imgix
At imgix, we’re passionate about delivering the Internet’s best visual experiences by building the world’s largest distributed image-processing pipeline. The imgix service makes images on the Internet impactful, engaging, responsive, and super performant. Learn more about imgix
Openings at imgix
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Engineering – Infrastructure
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Engineering – Product
More about imgix
At imgix, we’re passionate about delivering the Internet’s best visual experiences by building the world’s largest distributed image-processing pipeline. The imgix service makes images on the Internet impactful, engaging, responsive, and super performant. Learn more about imgix
Site Reliability Engineer
imgix is looking for an experienced Service Reliability Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. In this role, you will work closely with other members of the Infrastructure team to build and operate the high performance, high availability infrastructure that powers image delivery for some of the largest sites on the Internet.
The imgix Infrastructure team is responsible for building and operating the core imgix service and for encouraging operational best practices in the larger engineering organization. We seek experienced engineers who have strong professional skill sets and who are passionate about making positive contributions to the evolution of the company as a whole.
We are looking for:
- Experience building and operating large-scale consumer-facing production environments with a focus on service quality, performance, and uptime.
- In-depth knowledge of at least one of: CDNs, logging and metrics pipeline, monitoring, HTTP, high-performance web services, customer-facing APIs, infrastructure security.
- Nice to have (but not required) experience in one or more of: Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, HAProxy, Varnish, Python.
About the role:
- Build and operate highly reliable and performant distributed systems at scale.
- Observe and measure the imgix infrastructure for performance, reliability and correctness.
- Contribute expertise towards architectural planning and ensure that the company builds sustainable services that meet our objectives while leveraging the right tools and frameworks.
- Foster and promote operational awareness throughout the larger engineering organization.
- Actively participate in the review and testing process for our production services.
imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. imgix operates the premier solution to deliver impactful, engaging, highly responsive and super fast imagery to eyeballs around the world. Our service consists of a top tier image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix's proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
We are located in downtown San Francisco, close to BART, Caltrain, and a really good sandwich place. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401k, medical, dental and vision), perks are generous (catered lunches, paid rides home, the occasional team outing), vacation time is flexible, and salaries are commensurate with experience. We also provide employees with anything they (reasonably) need to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, a desk cactus, and maybe even a laptop. The troposphere is the limit.
Developer Relations Software Engineer
imgix is looking for a polyglot programmer with a passion for open-source software development. Your responsibility would be to manage and maintain imgix’s publicly available SDK—comprised of client libraries in a variety of languages and other helpful tools. The individual components of the SDK run the gamut of popular languages and frameworks, providing an easy way for developers to integrate imgix into their own services and applications.
Because these libraries are a core component of the imgix product, this role is an opportunity to substantially contribute to the success of the company and our customers.
About You:
- 3+ years of experience in an engineering role focused on building or maintaining an SDK (ideally external customer facing)
- Substantial expertise in some of the languages used by projects listed at https://docs.imgix.com/libraries
- Of particular interest:
- JavaScript
- Ruby
- Python
- Java
- Of particular interest:
- Excitement to learn new languages and frameworks, and a particular focus on adopting language-specific idiomatic design patterns, test methods, and package deployment processes
- Experience with open source project participation and a desire to build healthy communities around imgix’s open source offerings
- Familiarity with best practices for managing release-driven, widely-distributed software libraries
About The Role:
- Work with developers who use these projects to identify, prioritize, and implement feature improvements
- Maintain our portfolio of client libraries and integration tools, comprising the imgix SDK
- Create and implement stronger development processes across all of the constituent parts of the imgix SDK
- Monitor industry trends and help determine when new libraries or platform integrations would be beneficial to imgix’s developer base
imgix is building the future of visual media on the Internet. imgix operates the premier solution to deliver impactful, engaging, highly responsive and super fast imagery to eyeballs around the world. The service consists of a top tier image delivery platform tightly coupled with imgix's proprietary, on-demand image processing pipeline. It provides customers with great design flexibility while reducing the engineering investment required to serve state-of-the-art visual media. imgix enables our customers to greatly increase the value of their imagery and get back to building awesome things.
We are located in downtown San Francisco, close to BART, Caltrain, and a really good sandwich place. Employee benefits are comprehensive (401k, medical, dental and vision), perks are generous (catered lunches, paid rides home, the occasional team outing), vacation time is flexible, and salaries are commensurate with experience. We also provide employees with anything they (reasonably) need to be effective in their work: funky keyboards, standing desks, a desk cactus, and maybe even a laptop. The troposphere is the limit.
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