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Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

San Mateo, California, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$130,000–$200,000 /yrPosted 26 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Role summary

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (DevOps) to join our team. This role is responsible for ensuring site performance, uptime, and scalability by mastering production technology stacks, developing monitoring and alerting systems, and creating runbooks. You will identify and solve technical problems, partner with application engineering teams to manage CI/CD pipelines and test environments, and propose architecture changes for company-wide technology streamlining. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of hands-on software engineering or DevOps experience, proficiency with containerized cloud solutions (Docker, Kubernetes), public cloud providers (GCP a plus), and a strong understanding of DevOps concerns like source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring. Experience with various programming languages and common service technologies is also required.

  • Work with your team to master a variety of production technology stacks
  • Take responsibility for site performance, uptime and scalability
  • Develop and maintain accurate monitoring dashboards, alerting and runbook documentation suited to each product
  • Identify technical problems and develop solutions
  • Partner with application engineering teams to understand product needs, support test environments, and manage CI/CD pipelines
  • Build and propose architecture changes that will allow us to consolidate, simplify, and streamline our technology, company-wide
  • Develop tooling for deployment and release processes- Passion for improving education through technology
  • 7+ years of professional hands-on software engineering or devops experience
  • Flexibility to work with a variety of technologies and legacy systems, balanced against a passion to streamline and modernize
  • Experience with at least one programming language like Java, C++, C, Go, Python, Bash, Perl
  • Experience with containerized cloud solutions utilizing Docker and Kubernetes
  • Skill at troubleshooting problems across the stack, providing both immediate fixes as well as long term solutions
  • Fluency in devops concerns such as source control, builds, deployments, networking, scaling, and monitoring
  • Experience with common service technologies like web servers, message queues, load balancers, and databases
  • Bachelor’s or advanced degree in computer science/engineering or a related discipline
  • Public cloud provider experience (GCP is a plus)
  • Strong communication and time management skills
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