We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead the way in our platform automation and site reliability. Working closely with a small team, the ideal candidate will make big decisions on the future of Activehours. You will be expected to lend your experience to shaping, defining, and tweaking all of our key systems as we scale beyond hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Silicon Valley, this position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.
Skills & Requirements
Who you are
Smart: You have a broad skillset and learn new technologies quickly
Passionate: You’re driven to build tools that impact people’s lives
Collaborative: You excel working both within a team and cross-functionally with other teams
Loyal: You will take up arms (Nerf guns) to defend your teammates against attackers
Learner: you’re not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about your mistakes
What you’ll do
Help shape our next generation platform
Automate everything
Continuously improve our visibility into our systems and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analytics
Identify root causes on critical problems throughout the platform & take steps to resolve them
Create & follow-up on site incident reports and see them through to resolution
Communicate across third party services to resolve day-to-day issues and relay updates to the team
Build and deploy tools to ensure the health and reliability of Activehours systems
Architect & manage product release workflow & live deployments with continuous delivery system
Experiment with technologies and share learnings with the team to push our tech-forward mentality
Technical qualifications
5+ years combined experience as software engineer, software engineer in test, systems administrator, site reliability engineer or any combination of roles
You are proficient at writing code and do so in order to automate infrastructure, improve system reliability and optimize continuous delivery pipelines
We're a group of passionate and experienced developers split between Cincinnati and Palo Alto. Our Cincinnati team has a strong background in financial services and back-end development, while our Palo Alto team is focused on mobile development, growth hacking, and data processing and analytics. We collaborate throughout the day on via Slack, FaceTime and Hangouts. We work in a very collaborative and fun environment, free drinks and snacks, lunch catered in on Fridays.
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Open job postingAbout the company
We're a passionate team of 20 people who want to improve the financial lives of hourly and shift workers. Our innovative Android and IOS apps enable people to receive their pay on-demand when they have completed their work instead of making them wait until the end of an aribitrary pay period. If you can call an Uber car in 5 minutes, why should you have to wait two weeks to get your pay? We make our money on tips, not fees and interest, which ensures that we stay focused on delighting our customers. Our founder is a successful repeat entrepreneur with deep financial services expertise and we've lined up some of the best venture capital firms in New York and Silicon Valley behind our vision.