DevOps Engineer, Ada

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform teams
• Strong motivation and experience in using automation to reduce operational toil for both the DevOps and product engineering teams
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling data infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with containers and distributed computing platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience creating and supporting cloud-based systems at scale (AWS/Azure/GCP), with a strong emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong understanding of a server-side programming language (proficient in one or more of the following languages/tools: Python, and/or bash scripting)
• Experience handling on-call responsibilities for production services
• Experience managing critical production infrastructure, ensuring reliability and uptime, with a customer-first approach to operational safety
• Good understanding of DevOps concepts and best practices
• Experience with MongoDB and horizontally scaling data stores (i.e. sharding)

Desirable

• We're looking for an experienced cloud engineer to join our development operations (DevOps) team
• The DevOps team is responsible for building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure and tools that power Ada
• They also focus on improving developer velocity, ensuring operational excellence, and fostering a scalable & healthy engineering organization
• Create and support scalable and highly reliable software systems to support our growth
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to incorporate reliability into product and feature requirements
• Continuous analysis of the existing infrastructure from the reliability perspective, centered around removing performance bottlenecks, optimizing the infrastructure, the toolkit, and the workflows involved in running it
• Support various developer tools and processes (deployments, infrastructure management, among others)
• Work with engineering teams to troubleshoot core infrastructure issues and support teams as a consulted entity for service-specific infrastructure needs
• Implement DevOps solutions across cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, deployments, and platform abstractions
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the services the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues
• Contribute to delivering cross-cutting technical solutions that increase efficiency and reduce operational toil within the company
• Participate in our sprint activities including: planning, demos, and retrospectives
• Help the DevOps team deliver on our roadmap by owning and executing projects and tasks
• Enhance the internal developer experience by abstracting non-essential activities from the software development lifecycle