Who We Are
Angel Studios is the home of stories that amplify light. Through its platform, thousands of “Angel” investors choose which titles will be created, funded, and distributed. Angel Studios allows creators and audiences to form passionate communities around their creative projects, making the story behind the story as important as the final project itself. Some of the studio's key projects-- The Sound of Freedom and Dry Bar Comedy --have earned billions of views around the world. Learn more at Angel.com
We’re looking for passionate team members who want to build world-class products that will reshape media over the coming decades. Learn more about:
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Join us and be part of stories that amplify light.
Summary/objective:
Angel Studios is seeking a skilled and experienced Software Engineer to join the Platform team. This role is integral to ensuring our systems are robust, scalable, and reliable. You will play a key role in maintaining the reliability, performance, and scalability of our systems. You will work closely with our development teams to automate processes, deploy infrastructure, and manage cloud environments using AWS.
Key Responsibilities:
- System Reliability & Performance:
- DevOps Practices:
- AWS Cloud Management:
- Collaboration & Communication:
-Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high app availability and performance
-Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and reliability issues in production environments.
-Develop and execute incident response and disaster recovery plans.
-Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes using tools such as Terraform, or similar.
-Collaborate with development teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines and streamline code deployment.
-Design, deploy, and manage scalable and secure AWS infrastructure.
-Optimize AWS resource usage and cost through effective monitoring and management.
-Implement security best practices for cloud-based environments.
-Work closely with software engineers to ensure seamless integration of new features and services.
-Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for incident management.
-Document processes, configurations, and procedures to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity.
Qualifications:
- Experience:
- Technical Skills:
- Soft Skills:
-Proven experience as a SRE, GitOps, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.
-Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and ElastiCache.
-Strong background in using automation tools like Terraform, ArgoCD, or similar.
-Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
-Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems, Firewalls, and networking concepts.
-Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, Kustomize, and Helm.
-Solid understanding of Datadog, Sentry, Squadcast, and GitHub.
-Proxy servers, certificates, and DNS management.
-Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical skills.
-Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
-Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Required education and experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 5 years of relevant experience
Preferred education and experience
- 5+ years of experience
- Experience with the Angel Guild
Perks at Angel:
- Competitive compensation
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
- Short, and Long Term Disability Insurance and Basic Life Insurance paid for employee, with option of additional AD&D insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- 401(k) investment opportunity with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Identity Theft Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Angel is an Equal Opportunity Employer:
At Angel Studios, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates.
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What We Do
We are a film studio platform that helps creators come together with viewers to create high-quality TV and film without answering to Hollywood. So how do we do it? The content is created by the greatest film executives of all time. You.
