Senior Engineer, Ockam
Kubernetes
$194-228k
Salary range is total comp, which includes base salary and equity
Trust for data-in-motion
Job no longer available
Trust for data-in-motion
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$194-228k
Salary range is total comp, which includes base salary and equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower every developer with simple tools so they can create applications that Trust Data-in-Motion.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of work history
- Kubernetes, EKS, and containers
- Consuming and contributing to open source codebases
- API design
- Designing and provisioning complex cloud services in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Complex Git workflows
- Modern CI/CD pipelines and DevOps
- Collaboration on a remote-first, high-performance team
What the job involves
- You will be a Senior Engineer II (Level 5) on our Platform Engineering team and will be solving challenging problems in areas like infrastructure automation, continuous deployment, secrets management, observability, fault tolerance, security monitoring, incidence response and more
- Your focus will be on developing tools and processes to measure and drive key Service Level Objectives. An ideal person for this role is someone who has past experience working in a team responsible for operating open source products as-a-service on public cloud infrastructure (ex. MongoDB Atlas, Confluent Cloud, etc)
- You will need to be empathetic and understand our customers' use cases and how their user experience is affected by the platform and processes that we use to operate and deliver our products
- You will be responsible for service levels and plan incident response, and compliance with compliance standards such as AWS Well Architected, External Security Audits, SOC2 etc
- This role involves architecture, tool design, writing code, responsibility for testing, and publishing documentation. Everyone on the Ockam team takes responsibility for their parts from end-to-end, including the creation of long term objectives, issues in GitHub, task management, and summaries of key results
- Within 1 month, you'll:
- Gain a robust understanding of the needs of the platform codebase
- Design, architect, and deliver your first large feature
- Guide your peers that you work with on areas of improvement
- Establish strong async and sync communication rhythms with your peers and management, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress and areas of focus
- Celebrate the major win of having your work being used and valued by our users
- Solicit feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your team through thoughtful feedback
- Within 3 months, you'll:
- Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert on the team
- Continue to contribute to our Ockam Orchestrator
- Fortify relationships with cross functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organization
- Coach and mentor team members
- Within 6 months, you'll:
- Have significant responsibility, and make extensive contributions to a large system that enables customers to establish trusted channels between applications
- Drive initiatives with high-impact on the business and our customers
- Extensively collaborate with engineering management the executive team to level up the organization and continually improve our product
Our take
Ockam creates tools for development teams that helps build zero trust architecture. Using models that help data navigate multi-protocol systems whilst retaining end-to-end encryption which is private and secure, Ockam Orchestrator, the developer tool that is the company’s main enterprise-focused product, has been used and downloaded by thousands of open-source developers and companies.
With ever more companies using open-source software, the importance of start-ups like Ockam is increasing drastically. Having secure tools to build and analyse a company’s own software helps maintain flexibility and control, and with Ockam’s multipronged toolkit, both independent software builders and larger enterprises are catered to.
That’s not to say there isn’t competition from larger startups such as Particle, which has a five-year head start on Ockam. Regardless, Ockam’s 2022 round of funding emboldened the company to triple the size of their international team and saw them focus on engineering and product development team expansion.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$12.5m
SERIES A
Oct 2019
$4.9m
SEED
Total funding: $21.4m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matthew Gregory
(CEO)Previously worked at Microsoft as part of Azure's pivot to support Open Source Software, as well as in Heroku Product Pricing at Salesforce.
Mrinal Wadhwa
(CTO)Previously CTO at Fybr, EVP of Big Data at CloudThat, and Founder and Architect at Factors.
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