Staff DevOps Engineer, SamCart
eCommerce platform for creators
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eCommerce platform for creators
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give creators every resource they need to build and monetize their audience online.
Role
Who you are
- Expert in Amazon Web Services, leveraging cloud services to build performant, secure, highly available multi-region web applications
- Mastery of advanced tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, SOPS, etc.)
- High proficiency with cloud-hosted continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and tools (i.e. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.)
- Fluency in Python and modern scripting languages (PHP, TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience managing data pipelines
- At least 5 years of professional experience building and supporting cloud infrastructure in AWS
- Familiarity with GCP sufficient to support seamless service migration
What the job involves
- SamCart is looking for a collaborative, conscientious, and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team
- In this role you will refine, implement, and educate on our practices across SamCart’s cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP, considering application performance and scalability, disaster recovery, data management, and security
- You will be responsible for maintaining application uptime, 24x7 on-call rotation, infrastructure-as-code, and collaboration with our engineering teams as we consolidate our infrastructure in AWS
- Finally, you will join our elite team of high-caliber engineers, product managers and designers to build a world-class ecommerce engine to power the future of SamCart and revolutionize commerce on the Internet
- Design, build and operate cloud-based infrastructure built around Docker and Kubernetes in AWS, focusing on infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and CI/CD methodologies
- Support the ongoing development of a multi-tenant web application as we simplify our microservices architecture
- Perform a full spectrum of DevOps functions, including system administration, configuration management, data engineering, performance and security monitoring, disaster recovery, and 24x7 support
- Ensure efficiency and predictability of deployments and upgrades
- Lead the final steps of our migrations from GCP to AWS and from EC2 into Kubernetes
- Collaborate with AWS and GCP technical account managers, solutions architects, and consulting partners
Our take
The creator market is estimated to be worth well over $100B - and it’s growing fast. With the rise of ecommerce fuelling independent brands, and more people turning to this as a career avenue over recent years, demand is up for tools to support the industry. SamCart offers plenty of them.
The SamCart platform provides a wealth of ecommerce tools to help its over 75,000 creator customers set up a website, improve conversion rates and customer value, and operate and scale their businesses. It also offers business education in the form of CreatorU, an online library of business training content.
Importantly, this helps sellers operate independently of ecommerce giants like Etsy and Amazon - and SamCart doesn’t take a percentage of sales in return. This could see SamCart siphon off customers dissatisfied with the giants, whose practices increasingly cater towards larger brands.
So SamCart has been slowly building out what could prove a major contender to these major ecommerce rivals. Certainly, the rapid expansion of tools (including support for video course creators) demonstrates a market savvy and agility which will help it compete as the creator market grows.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$82m
SERIES B
Jan 2021
$10m
SERIES A
Total funding: $95m
Company benefits
- Each team has one offsite Hub Week per quarter to collaborate with team members (and others!) and plan for the upcoming quarter
- Diversity adds value to everything we do - We hire from and for a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to allow the team to bring their own unique ways of thinking and working to each project
- We have unlimited PTO with an encouraged 14-day minimum to empower our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their day-to-day lives
- Yay, we have 401K!
- Health Insurance premiums are covered 100% by SamCart for you +1, be it a significant other or child
- Supportive Parental leave policies for all parents
- Career growth and development are essential here at SamCart and we want all team members to build sustainable, future-proof and adaptable careers
- Self-Care is important, which is why we offer a monthly wellness credit
Company values
- Be Transparent - We communicate openly, thrive on feedback, and check our egos at the door
- Be Human - We operate with compassion and always assume positive intent
- Be an Owner - We are all owners of the business. We take pride in our work and know that the success of our customers and the business contributes to our individual success
- Be Creative and Commit - We collaborate, create resourceful solutions, and work as a team to get it done
- Be You - We are stronger together because of the unique qualities we each bring to the team. We believe in balance, making time for fun, and enjoying the work we do!
Company HQ
Stonelake Office Park, Austin, TX
Articles
Leadership
Scott Moran
(Co-founder)Graduated in marketing/marketing management and entrepreneurship from Grove City College.
Brian Moran
(CSO)Previously founded and served as CEO of Train Basketball and Get 10,000 Fans.
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