Staff Systems Engineer

Chewy

Chewy

Software Engineering

Plantation, FL, USA

USD 149k-245k / year + Equity

Posted on May 26, 2026

Job Description:

Petabyte Technology Inc. - a team of experts in veterinary medicine and technology, with decades of experience and a passion for pet care, looking for an experienced Systems Engineer professional to join our growing organization.

Our technology stack is built in Java, ReactJS, NodeJS, running on PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Couchbase, ElasticSearch, Kafka and other modern technologies. We containerize and deploy with Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform.

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

What will help you succeed in this role:

  • 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

The base salary range for this role is $149,000 - $245,000.00.
  • The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant. C08+ positions may also be eligible for annual bonus.

We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.

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