Elizabeth Elliott

Engineering Manager at Compass Data · AWS, Kubernetes

Compass Data

New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)

13+ years experience

Harvard Business School

English

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I've spent 13 years on cloud infrastructure - first at Walmart, now at Compass Data. Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 24 a week to 2. Shipped 21 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback. Before that: Pinterest and Etsy. Most at home with AWS and Kubernetes. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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AWSKubernetesTerraformLinuxGoPrometheus

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9 security engineer roles open on the infrastructure team in New York

Role: Security engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $178k-$215k + equity
Team: Infrastructure, 17 people
Start: Within a month
Must have: Production experience with Linux Production experience with AWS Comfort with ambiguity
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp $179k-$263k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

Engineering Manager
Nov 2024 - Present
Compass Data · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Shipped 11 launches on the infrastructure team without a rollback.
- Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion.
Site Reliability Engineer
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Pinterest · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 28 a week to 3.
Site Reliability Engineer
Apr 2019 - Sep 2022
Etsy · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 16 a week to 2.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Capital One · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 31 minutes to under 5.
- Moved 88% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
Site Reliability Engineer
Oct 2013 - Aug 2017
Walmart · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
- Wrote the Go service that now handles 59 million requests a day.
- Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 20 a week to 3.

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Education

Harvard Business School
MBA, Business Administration
2013 - 2015
USC
BS, Electronics and Communication
2008 - 2012

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