Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. We grade, authenticate, vault, and help sell millions of high-value, record-setting collectibles, all while modernizing and digitalizing the process to further our mission of helping collectors pursue their passions. Our services span collectible coins, trading cards, Funko Pops!, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia. Our subsidiaries include  PSA, PCGS, WATA, Card Ladder, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated millions of items. We employ more than 1,700 people across our headquarters in Santa Ana and offices in Jersey City, Seattle, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo.

We’re transforming the collecting experience with technology that brings authentication, grading, and trading into the modern era. Our products equalize the playing field by providing tools that make complex research analytics — including pricing, scarcity reports, and historical sales data — accessible to every collector, old or new. Our engineering mission is to democratize technology while promoting innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We're seeking engineers to utilize advanced technology in agile settings, with a focus on improving the customer experience for every collector.

Platform Engineering Team: Our dynamic Internal Platform team builds and maintains a robust and scalable platform that underpins Collectors’ engineering teams by providing IT, Networking, CloudOps, DevOps, Database, and QA best practices in turn enabling rapid, secure, and stable application delivery. You will build secure automation capabilities that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Their goal is to create a platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast. If you are ready to bring your skills to work alongside their team of engineers, you’ll be working hands-on in the cloud with some of the newest technologies out there.

Here's an example of what we're building: Internal Platform Blog

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products and services.
• Help development teams to build their Infrastructure through a self-serving platform.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting systems to promptly detect and respond to issues.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure automation, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal system performance.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Crossplane.
• Architect & Build innovative automation projects to help reduce day-to-day toil.
• Participate in capacity planning and disaster recovery exercises.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes, enabling rapid, secure, and reliable delivery of software updates;
• Advocate for best practices in DevOps and reliability engineering across the organization.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance our infrastructure.
• Be part of a weekly on-call rotation.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of progressively responsible DevOps experience.
• 4+ years of direct experience building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using some of the popular platforms (i.e., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• 4+ years of AWS cloud experience is mandatory (GCP is a plus). AWS experience should include Computing (EC2, Lambda, Containers), Networking (DNS, VPC, TGW), Storage (S3, EBS, EFS) and Database (RDS, DynamoDB).
• 4+ years of experience in managing large-scale Infrastructure-as-Code stacks using Terraform (or CloudFormation)
• Kubernetes and Docker experience is mandatory. 
• Experience with Observability tools is a plus (Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic)
• Bilingual in English and Spanish 

What we Offer 

• The opportunity to be a part of our inaugural Guadalajara, Mexico office and to make a real impact on the launch and success of this team. 
• A dynamic and collaborative international engineering team
• An organization dedicated to supporting the passionate Collectors community 
• A Competitive salary and benefits 

Location: Employees will be expected to work several days at our Guadalajara office in Midtown. 

Below information is relevant to US roles only:

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We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We believe that a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills will better service the diverse community of collectors we support.

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Explore other available openings at collectors.com/careers.