We're Creative Fabrica, a fast-scaling tech start-up from Amsterdam.
Our mission
Enable creativity by giving access to everything related to the creative process: inspiration, learning, creating, and sharing. The ‘Creative Inspiration Flywheel’
This creates a self-sustaining community that lives within the Creative Fabrica ecosystem.
About the platform
We launched in 2016 as a marketplace for fonts with a subscription service. In the last 8 years, we have been through tremendous growth, and we're just getting started!
We have scaled to 50 million+ monthly page views, 8 million+ registrations, over 22 million listed products, and 22000+ active designers.
Our focus is to create a platform for designers that enables them to offer exceptional high-quality content. We make their products searchable in unique ways. This allows our customers to speed up their workflow, allowing them to focus on what they love most: Creating.
About the team:
The SRE team sits within the Platform function, the teams are focused on the Creative Fabrica infrastructure and foundational software components. That also includes dev experience, core domain services (foundational entities like identity management, authentication, authorization, sessions management, etc), and the content domain (management of lifecycle of all content items in the system). This is the foundation used by multiple feature teams at Creative Fabrica to build the end-user facing functionality and accelerate value delivery.
Our Tech Stack:
AWS, Terraform, Go, Kubernetes, FluxCD, Helm, Victoria Metrics, Bash
What you will do:
- Improve our site infrastructure to keep up with the company’s fast growth and technology evolution.
- Proactively monitor the infrastructure and propose improvements.
- Lead the design and building of a fully automated, developer self-service platform.
- Research, develop and implement infrastructure management standards across our cloud accounts (AWS).
- Participate in pre-production and production site releases.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and in the debugging of issues.
- Identifying cost optimisation opportunities including but not limited to rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, wastage removal, and technology upgrades.
- Support our engineers to continuously improve code security and protect against vulnerabilities.
What you will need to have:
- 4+ years operating and supporting a high-volume, high-performance, cloud-native distributed computing environment.
- Proven experience with Terraform, containers and monitoring solutions.
- Experience with a wide array of AWS-based services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, ALB, MSK, DynamoDB, Redshift, etc).
- Experience supporting and deploying applications and microservices written in Go, Python and PHP.
- Experience with driving DevOps practices and developing automation solutions in a continuous deployment environment.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Kafka is highly preferred.
We are looking for candidates who can bring specialist knowledge in one of the following 3 areas:
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices and compliance requirements is an advantage..
- Deep knowledge of networking concepts, such as IP addressing, DNS, load balancing, subnets, VPCs, etc.
- Deep knowledge of relational database internals, such as MySQL, Postgres, etc
It would be great if you could also bring:
- Experience diagnosing complex production incidents in cloud-based applications and services.
- Experience developing in PHP, Python, Typescript or Go.
- Experience with performance and load testing.
Let us take care of you:
Compensation
We recognize and reward hard work, skill, and ambition. Your compensation will be made up of base salary plus an equity-based incentive plan.
- Lunch: On days you work in the office a warm fresh lunch will be provided for you.
- 30 ‘focus days’ where you can work remotely.
- 24 days of paid vacation per year + public holidays.
- Travel Allowance, if you live more than 10 KM from the office.
- Company pension plan.
- CF Library
- L&D for Tech Division
- Company events and overseas trips!
- New Joiner Swag Pack!
Is this you?
Get in touch! We'd love to speak to you.
You can apply by clicking the "Apply now" button.
Creative Fabrica is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
