Senior DevOps Engineer, Marco Polo
$175-190k
Our cash compensation package is made of up two components - base pay and equity in the company
Asynchronous video communication for friends & family
Be an early applicant
Asynchronous video communication for friends & family
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-190k
Our cash compensation package is made of up two components - base pay and equity in the company
21-100 employees
Company mission
Marco Polo's mission is to help people feel close.
Role
Who you are
- A great candidate for this role is someone who excels at building and managing fault-tolerant auto-scaling services and is an expert at distributed cloud infrastructure
- 5+ years of experience in backend server development
- Professional experience with a high-level language - we use Python & Go
- Experience with building & managing cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, and access controls, preferably using Infrastructure-as-Code tools. We use AWS and Terraform
- Experience running applications with container technologies. We use Docker and ECS
- Familiarity with Linux command-line environments
- Experience with a key-value data store such as Redis
- Experience with debugging and troubleshooting software systems
- A strong foundation in computer science, data structures, algorithms and software design
- The ability to work in a fast-paced environment, supporting multiple projects at once
- Strong and effective interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills to work successfully in a 100% remote team environment
What the job involves
- We're currently seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help us scale out our cloud infrastructure and platform services as we continue to grow
- The person in this role will help build and operate the software platform at the foundation of our production environment
- They will partner with our client and backend engineering teams to ensure that our applications can be deployed efficiently and operated reliably at scale
- Bring curiosity and a desire to learn systems, technologies, and tools: We are a small and scrappy team that values flexibility and pragmatism
- You will play a key role in building the platform as we broaden the capabilities of Marco Polo
- Your software will power a system that handles petabytes of data, millions of users, and hundreds of thousands of requests per minute
- You’ll have the opportunity to design distributed systems and ensure they operate reliably at large scale
- You’ll be responsible for maintaining the service to a high level of reliability, through rapid triage of production issues, performing regular upgrades, participating in on-call, and by sniffing out potential issues before they affect our users
- You’ll sift through logs and root-cause problems on client and server
- You’ll develop tools to help diagnose problems, automate tasks, and manage core infrastructure
- You’ll help us raise the bar for the entire team on our code quality and speed. You’ll primarily use (not exhaustive!): Terraform, Python, and Go
- As a senior on the team, you’ll learn about and educate others on new technologies and best practices to expand and augment our existing platforms
- You’ll provide guidance and mentorship to other team members, in an effort to help uplevel the entire team
Our take
Instead of focusing on live video calls or group video chats, Marco Polo focuses on asynchronous communication. That makes Marco Polo an ideal fit for an older generation who are short on time but increasingly keen to engage with technology to improve their lives & relationships.
The company earned millions of new users over the pandemic and has managed to continue that momentum with new features such as ‘Channels’ which brings creators onto the platform, providing more content.
Like any company of its kind, Marco Polo’s main goal will be to avoid becoming a ‘fad’ while growing revenue. A less fickle, older user base and strong network effects mean that it stands a great chance.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2016
$20m
SERIES B
Apr 2015
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $25.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision and dental coverage plus benefits that support your mental health and emotional well-being
- Flexible paid time off, generous company holidays and self care days
- 100% remote, anywhere in North America. -Stipend for a coworking space
- A work schedule built to fit your real life
- Quarterly in-person and virtual team retreats, all expenses paid
- Compensation: Our cash compensation package is made of up two components - base pay and equity in the company
- Paid parental leave for all new parents
Company values
- Purpose
- Belonging
- Ownership
- Humility
- Joy
- Velocity
Articles
Leadership
Vlada Bortnik
(CEO)Previously co-founded AdNectar, a social media advertising technology backed by Kleiner Perkins and Floodgate. Before that, worked at Microsoft in various teams like Hotmail and Windows Live as a Senior Program Manager.
Michal Bortnik
(President of Strategy & Product)Previously co-founded AdNectar, a social media advertising technology backed by Kleiner Perkins and Floodgate. Before that, they co-founded another tool for helping families stay close remotely - Agoost, a internet-enabled toys company. Earned an MBA from Stanford in 2008.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Marco Polo
- We believe that great talent shows up in many forms and with a wide array of backgrounds, and because of this, we don’t believe in determining a person’s fit solely by their educational background
- One of our company values is ‘Belonging’ - that we all actively seek ways to co-create an environment where everyone feels safe to show up as their authentic self. We bake this value into everything we do - from how we hire, to the benefits we offer, to how we make decisions and how we build processes
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