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Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure and Devops (Bay Area)

Leads DevOps team in designing scalable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and automation using cloud technologies. Requires 6+ years experience, Linux proficiency, programming in Python/Go/Rust/Ruby, and expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and major clouds.

155k – 230kSanta Clara, CADevOps / SREHybrid6+ YOE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Provide technology leadership to the DevOps Team.
  • Design and manage a resilient and scalable infrastructure to support application development, testing, and production environments.
  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
  • Create detailed architecture diagrams, documentation, and standards for DevOps processes and tools.
  • Automate and accelerate the development, testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably.
  • Contribute to defining security best-practices, and work on "Shift Left" security to guarantee application security at the earliest stages of development.
  • Continuously assess and optimize the technology stack to ensure alignment with industry best practices and emerging trends.
  • Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure DevOps processes support application needs.
  • Mentor junior engineers in the team in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
  • Contribute to a friendly and helpful company culture.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
  • 6+ years of software engineering experience in development, operations, and full stack implementations.
  • Proven experience as a DevOps Architect or similar role.
  • Solid experience with Linux.
  • Proficient with various programming languages such as Python, Go, Rust, Ruby for automation and integrations.
  • Experience with the core suite of tools used to manage infrastructure and deployment of application in different cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP).
  • Experience with industry Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery patterns (CI/CD).
  • Strong networking experience with technologies in TCP/IP, WAN, Gateways, Switching/Routing and Cloud Networking.
  • Experience with one or more of:
    • Virtualization or container environments like VMWare, KVM and Docker.
    • Orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes.
    • Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
    • Continuous integration systems like Jenkins or similar.
    • Configuration and provisioning management tools like Chef, Ansible, and Puppet.
    • Monitoring tools such as Sensu, Prometheus, Nagios or similar.
    • Logging and analytics tools like Elasticsearch.

Preferred

  • Jenkins, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Sensu, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Elasticsearch.

Compensation

  • Base salary: $155,000 - $230,000 / Year.
  • Additional compensation may include bonus, equity or commissions.
  • Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Retirement Savings, Wellness Program, Short-and Long-Term Disability, Holidays, Unlimited PTO, 40 hours Volunteer Time Off/year, Internet stipend, 401k.

Skills

PythonGoRustRubyLinuxDockerKubernetesTerraformAWSGCPAzureJenkinsAnsibleChefPrometheus

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