Group Nine Media is looking for a **Software Engineer** to join our **Sites Pod**. This individual is a self-starting, organized and dynamic person who is passionate about the Group Nine Media brands and working with modern web technologies to build beautiful, performant, and scalable web applications. As a member of the team, you will architect and deliver visually-stunning editorial and multimedia content across all of our brands, while making sure that we’re pushing the capabilities of our web platform to the limit.\n\nAs an Engineer who will help establish Group Nine Media as a leader in the media industry, in a typical week you will:\n\n* Make contributions to Group Nine Media's brand-agnostic, modern, and scalable web platform built with Next.js\n* Collaborate with our Product & Design teams to make additions to Group Nine Media's Component Library & Design System using Storybook\n* Participate in Agile Scrum ceremonies - Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives\n* Meet with fellow team members during Study Halls where we encourage sharing new ideas, brainstorming and problem-solving together\n* Utilize modern technologies and tools to focus on delivering valuable products and rich user experiences - not maintaining a legacy architecture\n* Learn something new and awesome every day!\n\n**Technologies That We Use and Love:**\n* Next.js, React (Server-side Rendered), Node.js\n* Styled Components, Storybook\n* Figma, Sketch, Invision, Design System Manager\n* Firebase, Cloud Firestore, GraphQL\n* Puppeteer, Jest\n* Google Cloud Platform, AWS\n* Fastly\n* Kubernetes, Lambda\n* Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager\n\n**Requirements:**\n* You have at least 2 years of experience on an engineering team\n* Proficiency with Javascript (Ecmascript 2015+), React, CSS, git, and Unix/Linux Environments\n\n**Qualities of an Ideal Candidate:**\n* You thrive in a diverse workplace where knowledge-sharing and professional development is an important part of our culture\n* You possess a genuine curiosity for understanding how things work\n* You have excellent communication skills\n* You are genuinely interested in building applications that scale with the business\n* You are an independent, self-starter who sees each new project as an exciting challenge\n* You are an advocate for clean, concise code and internal documentation\n* You keep performance, optimization and speed top-of-mind when developing new features\n* You can prioritize your work and understand business priorities\n* You have the intuition to break large problems into smaller ones\n* You collaborate with design and product team members to find innovative, creative and technically-sound ways to tell stories\n* Cover letter not required but it might help set you apart from other candidates. We promise that we will read them!\n\nThe perks!\n\n**We have amazing people.** We can promise you’ll work alongside some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. Our people work hard but we always have fun doing it. From pride to wellness to diversity, employees lead clubs that matter. Bottom line: we care about each other and we take our values seriously.\n\n**We value development. **We are a high-performance organization that challenges itself to continuously grow. We invest in employee development. You’ll need to be great to get hired here and we promise you’ll get even better once you’re here.\n\n**We care about you.** We offer company-paid parental leave for everyone #inclusion. We also offer health, dental and vision insurance, along with a selection of voluntary benefits. Knowing that time out of the office is as important as time spent in the office, our vacation, sick, and federal holiday allowances ensure you have time to take care of yourself.\n\n**We value diversity and inclusivity.** Group Nine Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Group Nine Media is also a participant in e-verify.\n\nAbout Group Nine Media:\n\nGroup Nine’s mission is to tell great stories that spark action and make a real difference. As the #1 video publisher on mobile in the U.S. [Nielsen DCR, July 2019], Group Nine’s brands are built for the platforms where young people spend the majority of their time. We reach over 70% of Americans in their 20s every month [Nielsen, July 2019]. Audiences spend nearly 50 million hours a month engaging with our category-defining brands - NowThis, the no. 1 most-watched mobile news brand in the world; The Dodo, the no. 1 animal brand on digital; POPSUGAR, the leading digital lifestyle brand for women; Thrillist, the most-trusted digital brand in food, drink, travel & entertainment; and Seeker, the no. 1 science brand in the U.S. Group Nine has been recognized with hundreds of prestigious awards including Edward R. Murrow, James Beard, Cannes Lion, Critic’s Choice, among others.\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **STRONG STOOL TOBACCO** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. 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\n\n#Benefits\n 🤓 Vision insurance\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States

***Full-time Systems Engineer - Remote - Europe Time Zone (GMT - GMT+2)\n*\n**C4Media, Inc.* - an established, global leader of continuing education and knowledge-sharing for professional software developers - is looking for a Systems Engineer to oversee InfoQ and QCon systems and assist us with our evolving cloud infrastructure.**\n\n(*C4Media, Inc., founded in 2007, is based in Toronto, Canada and owns QConferences.com and InfoQ.com)\n\n**To be successful** you are someone who is well-organized, accountable, detailed, disciplined in organizing your daily work and a self-starter, self-learner and open-minded person who is able to identify and take directions.\n\nRather than being someone who is looking for guidance, you are instead the type of person who can establish a direction and guide others into following it.\n\nYou need to be fluent in written & spoken English, work productively in a remote environment both independently and as a team member, be able to travel internationally on occasion and have reliable, high-speed internet, as well as a good workstation or laptop and a quiet home office environment.\n\nYou need to be able to pick up an already existing project, understand its existing state and be proactive in making improvements.\n\nPlease click video link below for details about C4Media:\n\nhttps://vimeo.com/396446151/4cd150b1b1\n\n# Responsibilities\n \nYou will be working collaboratively with the development teams of InfoQ and QCon and lead the effort of evolving our cloud infrastructure to meet the needs of our products by:\n\n* Developing, managing and monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure\n* Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining operating systems, application software and system management tools in our cloud infrastructure and legacy data center\n* Supporting with the cloud transition from the legacy data center\n* Ensuring systems and infrastructure availability\n\n\nThis position will exercise your systems engineering skills and you will be responsible for:\n\n* Proactively participating in the design of our infrastructure\n* Evolving and maintaining our cloud infrastructure\n* Developing and maintaining automation around infrastructure provisioning\n* Managing and monitoring all existing systems\n* Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability\n* Developing and maintaining security, backup, and redundancy strategies\n\n\n\n\n \n\n# Requirements\nTo be qualified, you need to have practical experience in the field and possess the following mandatory skills:\n\n* Solid AWS experience (e.g. EC2, RDS, DB clusters, VPC, ELB, CloudFormation, SQS, ElastiCache, etc)\n* Networking knowledge\n* Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX /Linux based environments\n* Experience with the administration and performance tuning of application stacks (e.g. Apache, Tomcat)\n* Scripting skills (e.g. shell scripts)\n* Database administration knowledge (mainly MySQL / MariaDB)\n* Experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Grafana, Kibana, Nagios, ELK)\n* Configuration management (e.g. Puppet)\n\nWe consider it a plus if you can bring with you knowledge around:\n\n* Automation software (e.g. Jenkins)\n* Extended scripting skills (Groovy)\n* Proxy servers (HAProxy)\n* Security\n* Virtualization / containerization\n\n\n**Benefits**\n\n* Join our **Great Culture** and an amazing global team of highly motivated individuals with diverse skills and backgrounds worldwide.\n* **Established, Growing Company**. C4Media has been around since 2007 (12 years) and is a financially stable, growing company based out of Toronto, Canada.\n* **Work 100% Remotely**. Your home-base can be anywhere in Europe. 100% of our staff work from home. (Please note that Europe GMT to GMT+2 is a requirement and we will not be able to accept applications outside of this geography.)\n* **Paid Time Off**. We provide 25 paid days/calendar year in the 1st year and 30 paid days thereafter (inclusive of local public holidays).\n* **4.5 Day Work-Week**. The staff in Canada and the Americas takes Friday afternoons off.\n* **Keep Learning.** We offer up to $2,500 reimbursement & 5 paid days off for qualified continuing education related to your career path.\n* **Have-A-Great-Life Vacation**. We offer a $500-$1,000 annual contribution towards a qualified “experience vacation”\n* **Paid Sabbaticals.** Every 5 years, full-time staff qualifies for paid sabbaticals of up to 2 months.\n* **Home Office Equipment**. After a few months with us, we financially support some of the things that make your home office more comfortable & productive (ergonomic desks & chairs, external monitors, newer laptops, head-sets).\n* **Annual Company Meeting**. Come and visit a new country with us every year!\n* Benefits subject to change and local laws.\n\n**Resources**\n\n[Conference homepage](http://https://qconferences.com/)\n[San Francisco 2019 edition](http://https://qconsf.com/)\n[Photos from our events](http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/qconpictures/albums/with/72157675169824340)\n[The QCon experience (video)](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGsKuqh5H4w)\nSocial pages: [Facebook](http://https://www.facebook.com/QCon/), [Twitter](http://https://twitter.com/qcon), [Instagram](http://https://www.instagram.com/qconconferences/)\n[Events Code of Conduct](http://https://qconferences.com/code-conduct)\n[Diversity & Inclusion initiatives](http://https://qconsf.com/diversity)\n[Company profile on Glassdoor](http://https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/C4Media-Reviews-E902935.htm)\n[Corporate careers page](http://https://c4media.com/career)\n\n*We hire based on talent. Apply only if you meet our performance and abilities guidelines. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in any aspect of the selection process. We will only be able to reach out to candidates who have been selected for assessments and interviewing. As a condition of employment, we will conduct a comprehensive reference check, including criminal record and education verification.* \n\nPlease mention the words **MORNING THIS EXPECT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Groovy, Engineer, Apache, Grafana, Video, Education, Cloud and Travel jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nEurope GMT to GMT+2