Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Sotheby's is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to join their Platform & Services group. The ideal candidate will play a central role in the future of Sotheby's infrastructure and developer platform services, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality and scalable solutions.Sotheby's is looking for someone to be a technical driver, mentor, and hands-on contributor, helping shape the architecture and technology stack. The candidate should have a passion for building practical, reusable, and resilient solutions for other engineers.Responsibilities:

• Build, optimize, and maintain a platform that enables other engineers and product teams to work faster and more efficiently
• Design elegant abstractions, useable and practical tools, and robust APIs
• Work closely with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders across the company
• Communicate persuasively with peers to inspire cooperation and collaboration
• Mentor, pair, and delegate work to encourage the growth of others
• Make well-reasoned decisions that inspire and energize others
• Provide technical leadership so that others can contribute confidently
• Help recruit, interview, and generally make Sotheby’s a great home for developers

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in engineering building platforms, infrastructure, and deployment and infrastructure tooling
• Experience with one or more programming languages including but not limited to: Go, Node.js, Python, Scala, or Java
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with build and deployment tooling (Bazel, Github Actions, Pants, Spinnaker)
• Experience with automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with relational database systems (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Exposure to microservices architecture and observability (Kubernetes, Docker, service meshes, distributed systems, tracing)
• Exposure to event streaming platforms (such as Kafka and Kinesis)