Job Description
Tern's user base is about to triple. Large host agencies are coming on board this year, and the infrastructure needs to be ready before they arrive. If you want to own the migration, build the monitoring, and be the person every other engineer at Tern depends on, this is your role. Everything Tern ships rides on the infrastructure underneath it. We're a Ruby on Rails application on Heroku, migrating to Google Cloud Platform, with a Postgres core and a data pipeline through Fivetran, BigQuery, and Hex. It's a solid foundation. It won't scale on its own. We're preparing for a major step‑up in load, large host agencies coming on board, user base tripling, and this role builds the infrastructure that holds under that growth. You'll own the migration to GCP, own the monitoring and alerting that keeps production reliable, and own the hot paths that need to get faster before volume climbs. Do it well and every other engineer at Tern moves faster and sleeps better. This is a force multiplier r...