Sr. Platform Engineer, Frontend

About Ancestry:
When you join Ancestry, you join a human-centered company where every person’s story is important. Ancestry®, the global leader in family history, empowers journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. With our unparalleled collection of more than 40 billion records, over 3 million subscribers and over 23 million people in our growing DNA network, customers can discover their family story and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Over the past 40 years, we’ve built trusted relationships with millions of people who have chosen us as the platform for discovering, preserving and sharing the most important information about themselves and their families.
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Together, we work every day to foster a work environment that's inclusive as well as diverse, and where our people can be themselves. Every idea and perspective is valued so that our products and services reflect the global and diverse clients we serve. 
Ancestry encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join the curious.

Ancestry is looking for an Senior Platform Engineer, Frontend to join our team. You will work on the Web Platform team to solve, implement, deliver, and adopt shared architecture, systems, libraries, and components. You will solve problems in both the front-end and back-end. Using a variety of technologies and skillsets, you will play a critical role in ensuring efficient and high quality development across the company.

As an Senior Platform Engineer, Frontend on the Web Platform team, you will help with an assortment of development projects that will help Ancestry migrate to a whole new web component based platform. You will help develop web components, release engineering processes using our front end load balancers, and help with overall maintenance of our web platform for all front end teams at Ancestry.

What you will do...

• Implement and manage front-end routing processes

• Assist with efforts to improve shared architecture and systems across web services and web pages

• Facilitate adoption of shared code and libraries in web pages and web services

• Address issues related to data security and compliance

• Manage AWS-related resources

Who you are...

• 1-2+ years experience with deploying/configuring routing infrastructure or similar technologies (F5 BigIP, NGINX, etc.)

• 1-2+ years experience with JavaScript / Node.js and front-end technologies

• Experience with deployment concepts like CI/CD, IAC and related technologies (e.g. Terraform)

• AWS infrastructure such as: EC2, ECS, EKS, Fargate, Route 53, and Aurora

Additional Information:

Ancestry is an Equal Opportunity Employer that makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, military or veteran status, citizenship, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. In addition, Ancestry will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

All job offers are contingent on a background check screen that complies with applicable law.  For San Francisco office candidates, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Ancestry will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  

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