Capacity Engineer with Data Engineering

Programmers.io is a company focused on data engineering and site reliability engineering. They are seeking a Capacity Engineer with expertise in capacity planning to ensure infrastructure scales efficiently to meet user demand while balancing performance and cost.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines to collect, transform, and store infrastructure usage data
• Build models to analyze system metrics and predict future resource needs
• Analyze historical usage patterns to predict CPU, memory, and storage requirements
• Simulate traffic spikes to identify bottlenecks and ensure systems scale linearly
• Optimize resource allocation to avoid unnecessary costs while maintaining service availability
• Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform to automate scaling and provisioning
• Collaborate with software teams to flag single points of failure and ensure resilient service design

Requirements:

• Strong background in data engineering and SRE practices
• Hands-on experience with capacity planning, forecasting, and scaling
• Proficiency in IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Harness)
• Experience with data pipelines, ETL/ELT frameworks, and big data tools
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
• Knowledge of chaos engineering and resilience testing
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills