Senior DevOps Engineer, Button
$153-198k
Salary based on skills and experience relative to the job description
Mobile commerce technology
Be an early applicant
Mobile commerce technology
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$153-198k
Salary based on skills and experience relative to the job description
21-100 employees
Company mission
Button's mission is to supercharge mobile marketing revenue for the world's biggest brands.
Role
Who you are
- A passion for building reliable, scalable, right-sized, and well-documented systems and services for supporting Button’s products, as well as an interest in exploring new technologies
- Building internal tools and scripting solutions. This will require comfort operating across the entire span of a data processing pipeline and software development cycles (including supporting CI/CD and scaling the platform)
- Fluency in and around Linux systems. You should be comfortable in a variety of troubleshooting situations that involve the health of the underlying system
- Fluency in and around traditional SQL databases as well as BigQuery. You're comfortable understanding and debugging situations like slow queries and failed migrations
- A security- and safety-oriented mindset. You have good instincts for how to balance empowering developers versus maintaining a principle of least necessary privilege
- An ability to move fast, make decisions, and take a pragmatic approach to any problem. We know there are lots of ways to accomplish the same goal; you’ll find and champion the best approaches for our team
- A track record of “leveling-up” the team around them, driving impact not just through their own contributions but also by elevating others
- Experience and comfort in a production environment. You’ll be working in a “magic-free” service-oriented environment
- 5+ years of experience supporting and building infrastructure with direct hands-on experience with a variety of tools and frameworks. Today, Button uses EC2, RDS, and ECS, all managed through Terraform
- Proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases
- Proficiency with AWS
- Experience with Python, Go, or Node.js is a plus
- Experience with GCP is a plus
- An awareness of the landscape of available data storage and processing tools as well as an eagerness to keep up with new technology
What the job involves
- As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving our production infrastructure. The mission is to make Button’s infrastructure easier to operate, more reliable, and secure, without breaking the bank. A well-designed infrastructure increases the velocity of every engineer on the team
- You will have direct influence over the infrastructure that supports Button’s services, applications, and data processing systems. You will closely partner with Product Engineers and Product Managers to ensure coherent data designs for our new and existing products
- You will provide and maintain a self-service platform for the system and data needs of Product Engineering to stand-up, maintain, and otherwise service the foundation for Button’s products. In this role, you will have the opportunity to greatly influence the infrastructure vision and participate in planning the roadmap
- Our Engineering team values a fast-moving and high-trust environment that affords each member the opportunity to develop expertise operating services at a meaningful scale in a distributed cloud environment. You’ll compose solutions from a broad range of technologies, including Go, NodeJS, Docker, Prometheus, and AWS ECS. You’ll also move fast; we ship changes to production dozens of times each day
- Expand our system instrumentation and tooling with monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing for our critical business tasks. You will be responsible for identifying and following through on key system metrics. Button strives to maintain an alerting culture that keeps the pagers quiet and is rooted in actionable, customer-facing syndromes
- Support new feature development as the go-to-partner for Product Engineering for the infrastructure and data needs, providing tools and guidance when it comes to the best practices and solving problems with our unique constraints
- Manage and monitor most aspects of our production serving environment. We're an AWS shop, and we make heavy use of ECS, RDS, and EC2 in production, all managed through Terraform
Our take
Shopping habits are increasingly moving towards mobile. However, the process of buying on mobile remains riddled with problems and poor user interfaces that slow down purchase time and therefore reduce revenue for companies that rely on these channels.
Button is trying to make mobile eCommerce easier for customers and businesses. They provide seamless integrations of links or "buttons" within other third party partner's apps, allowing mobile customers to buy when their interest is highest. This provides brands with an alternative to pushing users to their eCommerce websites through channels such as Facebook or Google (as customers can make purchases directly in other apps).
The company has now driven $6 billion in eCommerce, delivering an average 3x revenue increase in app journeys vs mobile web - both of which showcase the impact it has made in the market. Button continues to expand its network and enhance the platform towards making mobile eCommerce work better for brands.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2019
$30m
SERIES C
Jan 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $64.6m
Company benefits
- Remote Workplace
- Child Care Benefits - Button's parents are provided with flexibility to schedule their days to care for children
- Family Medical Leave
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Generous Parental Leave - Button provides up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave for all employees
- Return-to-work program post parental leave
- Group brainstorming sessions
- Open door policy
- Dental, Vision & Health Insurance Benefits - For most plans, Button covers 100% of the premium for employees and 75% for dependents
- Disability Insurance & Life Insurance - Button offers employees basic life and AD&D coverage and the opportunity to purchase additional life insurance and disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) - Employees may elect to fund an FSA (up to $2,800 per year for health care expenses and up to $5,000 per year for dependent day care expenses)
- Pet Insurance
- Wellness Programs - Button provides employees with a $500 lifestyle stipend each calendar year
- Mental Health Benefits - Button has an employee assistance program which also offers a number of mental health resources to employees
- Casual Dress
- Company Outings
- Happy Hours
- Pet Friendly
- Home Office Stipend for Remote Employees - Button provides a $500 lifestyle stipend every year which may be utilized for home office setup
- Professional Development Benefits - Customized development tracks, Job Training & Conferences
- Cross functional training encouraged
- Mentorship program
- Online course subscriptions available
- Promote from within
- Lunch and learns - Button holds a "Brains of Button" learning and development series for employees to enrich one another
- 401(K) with Matching - Button contributes 3% of an employee's salary (regardless of whether the employee has elected to contribute themself) starting immediately, with no vesting over time
- Company Equity
- Performance Bonus
- Generous PTO
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Days
- Unlimited Vacation Policy
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Michael Jaconi
(CEO)Serial Founder with several ventures in the entertainment industry. Previously 7 years at Rakuten Loyalty in senior roles including Vice President, Co-President and CEO.
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