Staff Software Developer, Hootsuite
DevOps
CA$148.4-207.8k
Social media management tool
Job no longer available
Social media management tool
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
CA$148.4-207.8k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower organizations to build trust and deepen relationships through the power of social.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive relevant experience in a software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
- Experience in building and maintaining DevOps automation and tooling to improve the development experience and speed up development, testing and release
- Experience with Linux distributions and a thorough understanding of operating system fundamentals and microservice architecture
- Experience with Public cloud platforms - AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure
- Experience with infrastructure testing
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally to build systems, create processes, and facilitate development efforts that enable other engineers to be more productive
- Experience as an active participant in technical / developer communities, open-source projects, or similar developer groups, and presenting/speaking at technology conferences/hackathons/webinars
- Ability to interact with diverse technical and non-technical groups, spanning all organizational levels, and to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a rapidly changing environment
- Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
- Ability to plan, articulate and gain organizational alignment on a technical vision
- Ability to stay on top of technical direction/frameworks beyond Hootsuite and advocate for their adoption at Hootsuite
- Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
- Decision Making: consistently chooses the best course of action (from a number of alternatives) to address business problems and/or opportunities
- Influence: Asserts own ideas and persuades others, gaining support and commitment and mobilizing people to take action
- Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
- Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
- Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community
- Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better
- Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity
- Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Developer, DevOps who can help us to scale and optimize our cloud platform to improve its reliability and resiliency
- You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance our cloud platform solutions
- You’ll be working with diverse technical and non-technical groups to align the technical vision and drive the delivery
- You will report to Senior Director, Production Operations & Delivery
- Design and build our compute and delivery platform for large scale technical projects
- Identify and implement new platform features
- Research and provide technical analysis of new technologies
- Scaling and optimizing the platform so it’s reliable and resilient
- Enable development teams
- Provide executable interfaces to our compute and delivery platform
- Building ancillary developer tools and provide best practices to accelerate the adoption of our compute and delivery platform
- Supervising and overseeing the technical aspects of projects. This includes architecture validation, gatekeeping code quality, validating the choice of tools/framework and ensuring implementation meets cross functional requirements (scalability, reliability, documentation etc.)
- Mentor, advise and provide training, technical guidance and priorities to the team
- Provide creative solutions to complex problems. Build efficient processes, systems, and software in collaboration with internal stakeholders and technical team across the organization
- Communicate by writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos
Our take
Hootsuite is a leading social media management platform that’s been around since the early days of this now-ballooning online sector. With over 25 million customers, and used by staff at over four fifths of the Fortune 1000, this giant is hugely competitive in the space.
Thought Hootsuite's plans for an IPO didn't survive the tough economic conditions of 2022, it managed to rework its priorities to get back on course. For example, its acquisitions of Sparkcentral and Talkwalker allowed the company to expand into customer service and integrate AI, respectively.
Hootsuite's offering nowadays supplies businesses with a social media performance engine to turn insights into action, all fuelled by artificial intelligence. Unfortunately, the company once again laid off staff during 2025, stating an investment in its future where decisions are made faster and ownership is clear.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2014
$60m
SERIES D
Aug 2013
$165m
SERIES B
Total funding: $246.9m
Company benefits
- 100% coverage on mental health-related treatments in North America. Culturally appropriate trauma counselling services
- A company-wide Wellness Week between July 5 to 12 where we can all “unplug” together
- Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Gym / Wellness Reimbursement ($55 per month)
- Gym Discount
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Maternity Leave
- PTO (Vacation / Personal Days) - 20 days. After your two year anniversary, you get an additional two days each year until you reach thirty days (six weeks) at your sixth anniversary
- Paternity Leave
- Sick Time (for individual employee and family members)
- Bereavement Leave
- Business Travel Insurance
- Company Phones
- Fertility Assistance (Coverage for fertility treatments and gender affirmation surgeries)
- Immigration Assistance
- Phone Bill Reimbursement ($50 per month)
- Remote Work
- 401k
- Employee Discount
- Pet Friendly Workplace
- RRSP Matching
- Volunteer Time Off
Company HQ
South Main, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Ryan Holmes
(Founder & Board Member)Previously founded interactive agency Invoke Media, served on the Board of Directors for Ariztia, and founded pre-seed fund LOI Venture.
Irina Novoselsky
(CEO)Previously Board Member at Lemonade and World Business Chicago, CEO at CareerBuilder and President at Novitex Enterprise Solutions.
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