Create theme-based roadmaps that align with product, engineering, and security goals
Enable the adoption of serverless and API based technology while maintaining security requirements and reducing financial and resource spend
Embed security and reliability engineering within DevOps practices and pipelines
Collaborate with engineering leaders and product teams to design high level architecture and patterns that fulfill organizational requirements
Participate in on-call rotations, performing handoffs when alerts reach a high threshold, leading blameless postmortems and security incident response
Create a more sustainable working environment by reducing toil
Reworking our distributed task queues to automatically scale to support hundreds to thousands of simultaneous jobs, guaranteeing very high uptime and completion rates, supporting retries for failing jobs
Tuning and improving our infrastructure to support efficiency, reliability and scalability while maximizing performance
Building a CI/CD pipeline to safely push changes to production with no downtime at the click of a single button, which also deploys seamlessly our environments as frequently as code is updated
Requirements:
Have strong leadership skills, but still have the chops to work hands-on promoting a culture of systems thinking, DevOps practices and individual ownership of security practices and compliance protocols
Have experience hosting web frameworks scaled to support millions of users
Have experience with infrastructure management using tools such as AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker
Have experience architecting and building complex systems with high performance, scalability, and reliability requirements of large 24/7 systems
Have built production deployment pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or GitLab
Have implemented distributed task queues (e.g., Celery) scaled to hundreds or thousands of concurrent jobs on large data sets
Are comfortable defining objectives, prioritizing months of work, and proposing plans and roadmaps to meet these objectives
Know your way around relational databases and NoSQL databases, being skilled at writing queries as well as tuning and managing the configurations
Have no problem integrating a new service with no prior experience with that specific technology
Have a thorough understanding of security and encryption, understanding what is required to keep user information protected under any type of attack
Are comfortable working in 2-week sprints and pushing production-quality changes that meets business requirements at the end of each sprint
Have proven your ability to estimate work timelines and communicate appropriately when issues arise
Love a fast-paced environment and thrive when tackling the hardest challenges
Desire to learn new skills and approach problems from unique angles
Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
Understand that everybody you work with is human, and is trying their best, and can expect to have the same understanding provided to you
Are comfortable self-leading, working to improve yourself and your abilities
Have an all-in attitude, ready to jump in to help keep things running regardless of what time it is
