Senior Cloud Engineer, Handshake
$150-200k
+ Equity
The career platform for Gen Z
Job no longer available
The career platform for Gen Z
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$150-200k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To democratize access to opportunity and ensure any student can build a great career no matter who they know, where they live or what school they attend.
Role
Who you are
- You are adept with agile software development lifecycle and DevOps principles
- You prefer taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented
- You act with empathy when partnering with fellow engineers and coworkers
- You have 5+ years of experience in building and maintaining cloud-based architectures in AWS and/or GCP
- You have experience with Linux / Unix-based operating systems
- You have expertise with IaC and GitOps workflows
- You have prior experience with modern infrastructure tooling, such as Kubernetes, as an administrator or operator in a production setting
- You have experience securing Kubernetes by implementing best practices such as OPA, RBAC, and utilizing Kubernetes security features
- You have Infrastructure networking experience: firewalls, load balancing, DNS, etc
- You are passionate about building simple and high-quality infrastructure
- You follow or contribute to OSS & CNCF projects
- You have experience working in distributed, performant, at-scale systems
- You eliminate toil through automation
What the job involves
- As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will play an integral role in delivering critical, self-service Cloud infrastructure layers that enable our Platform
- Our mission is to ensure our Cloud infrastructure is reliable, scalable and consumable across Engineering
- As part of our Team, you will have the ability to create significant impact through innovation, automation and continuously evolving our technology stack and processes
- You will be joining a group of exceptional engineers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets, with plenty of opportunity to play to your strengths as well as lean-in and learn new areas that are exciting to you
- Work with a fantastic bunch of highly talented and collaborative teammates and colleagues
- Support the deployment and operation of multiple highly available K8S clusters
- Establish and enforce best practices for K8S, including deployment patterns, sizing, etc
- Develop solutions with support for monitoring, metrics, and automation
- Collaborate with other teams to influence design for engineering excellence
- Work in a 100% Cloud Environment (primarily GCP) and use modern tools and services like Argo Workflows, Argo CD, Prometheus, etc
- Develop and automate our infrastructure with Terraform
- Drive observability and actionable insights across our infrastructure & services
- Lead high-impact, cross-functional projects to completion and mentor junior members of the Team
Our take
The three founders of Handshake established their company in an attempt to eliminate inequality and make the student hiring landscape fairer. The Handshake platform acts as a LinkedIn for college students, pairing students from every walk of life with more than 650K employers, including the entire Fortune 500, which includes Google and Nike.
The graduate recruitment platform is open to any student with a valid @.edu email address, with more than 17M active users from thousands of colleges and universities. With a student-first philosophy, the company generates revenue from both universities and employers rather than students.
Valued at $3.5B, Handshake has gained traction in a competitive market, although it has strong competition from recruiting giants LinkedIn and Indeed. It stands out, however, by helping students build new relationships and skills, rather than simply making connections to people they already know.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$200m
SERIES F
May 2021
$80m
SERIES E
Total funding: $434m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical , dental, and vision coverage
- Fertility and family forming: Through a partnership, Handshake offers comprehensive family benefits, including infertility treatments and a $15K stipend, to its employees.
- LGTBQ+ coverage: All medical plans cover transgender services.
- Mental health: Discounts on a variety of wellness apps and an Employee Assistance Program with access to five free counseling sessions.
- Tax savings: Tax-advantaged benefits to save money on healthcare, dependent care, and other expenses.
- Learning & development: Employees are provided with an annual stipend to use towards professional development, career development workshops, manager trainings, and 1-on-1 coaching through external partnerships
- Community leader support: Employee Resource Group leaders are compensated with a quarterly bonus for the high-impact work the role requires
- Parental leave: Leaves of 16 weeks for birth-giving parents and 10 weeks for non-birth-giving parents; the policy applies to adoptions as well. Handshake also partners to provide one-on-one coaching on preparing for leave and coming back from leave
- Flexible time off: No accrued time off or waiting period to take vacation. Two paid flexible holiday days off to observe holidays that closely align with religious, cultural, and personal needs
- Sabbatical: Paid six-week sabbatical to recharge and reset beginning at six years of continuous, full-time employment, and every four years thereafter
- Volunteer time off: Two days off for social and civil activism, volunteer work, and/or any related activities, including attending and participating in protests
- Life & disability insurance: Essential benefits and automatic coverage with basic life insurance, plus short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 401k match: Dollar-for-dollar match up to 1% of pay, with a max of $1,200 per year.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Garrett Lord
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Computer Science at Michigan Technological University. Interned at Palantir Technologies before co-founding Handshake in 2012.
Ben Christensen
(Co-Founder)Graduated from Michigan Technological University with a degree in Computer Networking & Systems Administration. Interned at Target and worked as a Developer at Up and Running Software. Was part of Arbor Networks' ASERT Security Research team.
Scott Ringwelski
(Co-Founder)Attained a degree in Computer Software Engineering from Michigan Technological University. Co-founded Handshake in 2012.
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