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# Staff Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Chewy, Inc.
- **Location:** Plantation, FL, United States
- **Salary:** $149,000.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Bash Shell, BigQuery, Cluster Analysis, Configuration Management, Continuous Delivery, Couchbase Servers, Relational Databases, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Node.Js, NoSQL, Software Deployment, Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Software Version Control, Docker, Jenkins, Ci Server, Artifactory
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1db3f3fe06549efc

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Version control systems?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale

 * Professional experience and a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications
 * A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, NodeJs, etc)
 * Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes)
 * Expertise with AWS, GCP or Azure (GCP is a plus)
 * Version control system experience (e.g. Git)
 * Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, Artifactory, Sonarcube, Docker, Helm)
 * Operational (e.g. HA/Backups) RDBMS and NoSQL experience (e.g. PostgreSQL, Couchbase, BigQuery)
 * Bachelor or master's degree in CS, or equivalent practical experience
 * Effective communication skills

## Description

As a Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for infrastructure delivery, reliability, scalability, monitoring, and helping define all of this as immutable infrastructure-as-code.

What you will do:

 * Support and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture (GCP)
 * Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
 * Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management
 * Build and test automation tools for infrastructure provisioning
 * Help development team with code deployments in all environments
 * Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve applications performance
 * Provide technical guidance and educate team members and coworkers on development and operations
 * Brainstorm for new ideas and ways to improve development delivery
 * Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
 * Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
 * Manage CI and CD tools with team
 * Document and design various processes; update existing processes
 * Follow all best practices and procedures as established by the company
 * Participate in On-Call rotation


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