Cloud Platform Engineer

Why RocketReach

Over 21 Million users around the world use RocketReach.co. Some of the largest companies in the world - Apple, Google, Amazon, Adobe, Morgan Stanley, trust RocketReach to power their sales, recruitment, and marketing teams. We are scaling our 21M users and our dataset of 700 million professionals across 60 million companies.

RocketReach is rare and unique; a startup that is in high-growth mode, already highly profitable, with a small team where you can make a gigantic impact. Started in 2016, the company was bootstrapped by its founders, focused on building a great product. Our Mission is to Connect professionals to new opportunities, powered by the largest and most accurate contacts on this planet. In a few short years, we’ve grown organically to become one the largest business info-services platforms and the de-facto productivity solution for sales and recruitment teams at companies of all sizes, worldwide.

Our success lies in our culture, which is very much driven by our core values:

🌎 Down to Earth ~ Low-Ego: we are a uniquely humble group that values being low-ego more than anything, and we have a strict no asshole policy.

🚀 One Rocket, One Crew~ Collaborative: A team that can support each other, give and receive productive feedback, as well as coach and be coached is at the heart of our collaborative environment.

📊Fueled by Data ~ Data-driven Decisions: Our decisioning is based on data, it is the currency on which we drive the business forward. Data is the Northstar of our product and our organization internally.

💡Houston we have a Solution~ Solution-oriented: We are expert problem-solvers. Finding the right solution and the best possible way to get there together, is what our team strives for.

The Role

RocketReach is in a period of rapid growth and we are looking for a strong Cloud Platform Engineer to join our growing engineering team!

As a Cloud Platform Engineer you support the foundation and security of the entire RocketReach platform by automating infrastructure provisioning, developing self-service tools, and establishing common organizational standards. RocketReach powers the largest and most accurate contact information database in the world.

We Are Looking For People Who

• You demonstrate competence in software engineering and high-level programming languages
• You have a deep understanding of AWS technologies and the best practices around configuration, automation, and cost optimization
• You possess practical knowledge and appreciation of various aspects of distributed service design, including messaging protocols, caching strategies and autonomous software design practices
• You understand security best practices including container and dependency scanning, vulnerability management, and standards like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• You have experience with a variety of modern software tools, such as Nginx, Docker, Github Actions, and ElasticSearch.
• You value continuous delivery and believe in rapidly and safely delivering customer value

What You Get to Do

• You will own parts of the shared infrastructure (e.g. - build and deployment pipelines, package management, configuration management, security monitoring, and infrastructure as code)
• You'll design and build the tools to manage our rapidly growing infrastructure
• You'll solve problems across the entire stack - hardware, software, application, and network
• You’ll provide tools to product engineering teams that will abstract complexity in cloud infrastructure and securely automate common operations
• You'll provide support for the continuous delivery of RocketReach products to our customers
• You’ll support our reliability goals by creating a scalable foundation for numerous product initiatives

Why Join Us?

• Product and Engineering Driven: We strongly believe the quality of our Product will set us apart from the competition. We have a Product-led culture, with our Founders as our first engineers. Low tech debt has allowed us to scale the business with an extremely high caliber team.
• Exponential Growth: RocketReach’s business has nearly doubled every year since inception, and COVID has created tailwinds that have accelerated our growth.
• Profitable not "Profitable": We're actually profitable. Unlike many other companies our size and age, we’re not burning through millions to generate $1000s in income. We are actually comfortably profitable, and actively investing that profit in order to continue to scale the business.
• Data not egos: Product at RocketReach is driven by agility and experimentation. Our decisioning is based on data, it is the currency on which we drive the business forward.
• Close knit, distributed: RocketReach has a small, but hyper productive team. We're spread around the globe, yet constantly in touch. Each role we hire has an immediate, outsized impact on the business.
• Strong Leadership: We have a genuine investment in our people and care that you are happy at work!

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary
• 401(k) matching
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Strong Leadership - we care that you are happy at work!
• Investment in culture and resources for a distributed team
• Incredible amount of autonomy

RocketReach is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, or protected veteran status.