Dandy
Dandy is transforming the massive and antiquated dental industry—an industry worth over $400B. Backed by some of the world’s leading venture capital firms, we’re on an ambitious mission to simplify and modernize every function of the dental practice through technology. As we expand our reach globally, Dandy is building the operating system for dental offices around the world—empowering clinicians and their teams with technology, innovation, and world-class support to achieve more for their practices, their people, and their patients.
Dandy is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer to join our rapidly scaling technology organization. As a member of Dandy's Platform Engineering team, you will play a key role in the success of our team and company. You'll design and build scalable infrastructure and systems to support our rapidly growing product engineering function.
Our stack: TypeScript, NodeJS, NestJS, React/Redux, GraphQL, Postgresql, GCP, Kubernetes, Pulumi, Chronosphere, Temporal
Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team.
Collaborate with stakeholders within the tech org to influence overall objectives and long-term goals of your team.
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact across your team and others.
Develop and maintain infrastructure, systems, and tooling to support Dandy’s products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
Reinvent an analog experience and disrupt a legacy industry through novel and scalable system design.
Collaborate with Product Engineers and other stakeholders within Engineering, Product and Data to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
Advocate for improvements to infrastructure quality, security, and performance.
Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices.
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
8+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in a high-growth startup environment
An expert in distributed systems and scaling backend services
An expert in Public Cloud Infrastructure (GCP preferred, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes
Experience with complex CI/CD pipelines for poly-artifact monorepos
Experience with infrastructure as code platforms (Terraform, Pulumi)
Experience designing the architecture and automation of infrastructure within a cloud environment
Experience in identifying and remediating security vulnerabilities within a cloud environment
Experience with building observability platforms (i.e., metrics, logging and tracing)
A collaborative, pragmatic, and growth-oriented mindset. We are a small but mighty team, and everyone must be aligned on our goals.
The ability to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems.
Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
Self-motivated, self-managing and takes ownership, with excellent organizational skills.
TypeScript
PubSub
GraphQL
Postgresql Administration (operations)
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