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Software Engineer, SRE

Redwood City, California, United StatesHybridFull TimeEntry-level (exp-based)Posted 2 months ago

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Role summary

Poshmark is seeking a Software Engineer with a product-first mindset to join their Cloud Operations Team in Redwood City, CA. This hybrid role involves contributing to the full product development lifecycle, from idea to live feature, with a focus on building scalable features and ensuring operational excellence. The engineer will be responsible for feature delivery, full-cycle development, and systems thinking, ensuring features are designed for operability. Within 6 months, the engineer will onboard, contribute to features, and understand the on-call process. Within 12 months, they will own features, create monitoring dashboards, suggest architectural improvements, and participate in architectural discussions.

Location

US California (Redwood City) - Office

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

All Departments

Research & Development

Technology

Cloud Operations Team

About Poshmark

Poshmark is the leading fashion marketplace where style comes alive through discovery, self-expression, and human connection. Powered by a vibrant community of 165 million members, Poshmark brings real people and taste to shopping through a social experience shaped by shared discovery. Buying and selling fashion feels simple, joyful, and personal, while every item tells its own story. Poshmark empowers sellers to grow meaningful businesses, keeps fashion in circulation longer, and gives shoppers access to unique and trusted finds, from everyday pieces to one-of-a-kind vintage and luxury.

Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for a Software Engineer with a product-first mindset to help us accelerate the journey from "idea" to "live feature." In this role, you won't just be writing code; you will be an integral part of the product development lifecycle, working to build features that scale. You believe that great software isn't finished until it’s providing value to our community.

6-Month Accomplishments

  • Onboard & Contribute: Rapidly familiarize yourself with the Poshmark tech stack and functional requirements.
  • Feature Shipping: Get comfortable with our automation tools and deployment processes to start pushing code to production.
  • Team Integration: Gain in-depth knowledge of product functionality and start contributing to small-to-medium feature sets.
  • Quality Support: Understand the on-call and bug-fix process to support the health of the features you build.

12+ Month Accomplishments

  • Feature Ownership: Execute projects related to core product functionality with guidance from Sr. team members
  • Operational Excellence: Create meaningful dashboards to monitor the performance and user impact of the features you’ve launched.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify gaps in the current product architecture and suggest improvements to enhance user experience or performance.
  • Mentorship & Growth: Fully participate in the engineering rotation and begin contributing to architectural discussions.

Responsibilities

  • Feature Delivery: Act as a key contributor to the development, rollout, and deployment of new product features.
  • Full-Cycle Development: Work closely with development and product teams from early design stages through to resolving production issues.
  • Agile Mindset: Function effectively in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment where rapid iteration is the norm.
  • Systems Thinking: Ensure that every feature is designed with "operability" in mind, making it easy to monitor and support.

Desired Skills

  • Experience: 0–4 years of experience in a Software Engineering role, ideally within a fast-growing startup.
  • Technical Foundation: Exposure to large-scale web operations and a solid understanding of UNIX-based environments.
  • Problem Solver: Experience scripting, coding, and using a wide variety of open-source technologies to solve complex problems.
  • Deployment Savvy: Familiarity with continuous integration tools like Jenkins and configuration management tools like Ansible is a major plus.

Technologies we use:

  • Languages/Servers: Ruby, JavaScript, Node.js, Tomcat, Nginx, HAProxy.
  • Data & Messaging: MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, ElasticSearch.
  • Infrastructure: AWS (EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3), Kubernetes, Docker.

Note: 1) Poshmark is currently unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. 2) This is a hybrid position based out of our Redwood City, CA.

Sample Poshmark interview questions

  • 1

    Design a technical system that replaces faulty parts in a data center.

    system designmedium
  • 2

    Design a reliable system for handling data replication across distributed environments.

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