Job Type: Full-Time

Location: Remote (Preferred Markets: Louisville, KY and surrounding; Toronto, CA;

Vancouver, CA)

Reports To: Director of Engineering

Department: Technology

Generation Tux is an online tuxedo and suit rental platform founded by menswear legend, George Zimmer. George created the company in 2014 to provide high-quality tuxedo and suit rentals, competitively priced, and in the most convenient way possible -- shipped directly to your door. Generation Tux is a growth-stage startup, and we need your help taking our growth to the next level.

We are a growing software driven startup seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help build an exceptional user experience for millions of users in the coming years, and we need your help to grow to the next level!

Our sophisticated tech stack involves e-commerce, fulfillment, tracking, and both forward and reverse logistics, multi-stage IoT using RFID, and AI-driven fit algorithms as part of a highly scalable cloud-based SaaS services. We are rapidly expanding our API-driven platform to a wide array of partners, and we will leverage your knowledge and talent to create amazing UX experiences as a member of our Core Platform team.

Generation Tux has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, and work to be a little better every single day. In our work together we aim to be transparent, respectful, humble, hardworking and, above all, collaborative. We’d love to have you join our amazing team!

What you will be doing

• Building amazing software that make us the leader in our space
• One of two technical leaders of a dedicated engineering team handling core software services and related Kubernetes deployment code
• Guide and mentor other engineers on architectural design, appropriate data model, and reasonable deployment, supporting other teams that use your services
• Be the core site reliability engineer for a disciplined team of hardcore software engineers and talented product managers using the latest tooling

What you should have

• Experience working in an agile development environment
• 4+ years experience deploying complex HTTP based services on Docker and Kubernetes at scale on AWS
• Strong coding experience in Python or related language to support operations automation
• Must live within 3 hours of Eastern Standard Time (EST); strong preference for candidates within 7 hours driving time to Louisville, KY (Nashville, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Columbus, Chicago, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Pittsburg, Cleveland) for occasional meetups
• At least two years working with a title of Senior Devops Engineer or Senior SRE at a software company, where your code is used by external customers (not internal users)
• Experience with authentication (oAuth2, LDAP) and how token services work
• 3+ years experience with AWS networking including ALB/ELB, VPC, and the two dozen other objects on the VPC page
• 1+ years experience with Terraform
• Linux mastery 
• Deep git fu, including knowledge of advanced git technique (rebase, amend a commit)
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or comparable industry experience within a software organization
• Experience working across the org with product managers and eng teams; good sense of the give and take in driving an architectural vision across multiple releases
• Curious, dedicated to learning, low ego

Extremely Nice to Haves

• Experience with advanced Kubernetes and related opensource tools (sealed secrets, ArgoCD)
• Debugging skills using Datadog, kubectl, low level Linux
• Familiar with thread concurrency and related async, queues, sockets, deep HTTP
• Solid knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL databases, especially if on AWS
• Comfortable using dozens of third-party commodity SaaS services for the basics
• Companies you have worked at are in Crunchbase and are listed as SaaS or software

Not so great/Counter-indicators

• Most recent deploying in Azure and using C#/.NET tooling
• No large scale production experience

Books We Like

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Good to Great
• The Advantage

Posting Statement

At Generation Tux, we believe that our goal is to enable incredible lifestyle experiences during major life events. Each of us has a responsibility to drive accountability, transparency, respect, and equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more.

Generation Tux is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Generation Tux does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Generation Tux will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Generation Tux.