Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Justworks
$180-198k
Business operations platform
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Business operations platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180-198k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Justworks' mission is to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow with confidence.
Role
Who you are
- Justworks is seeking an experienced engineer to join our Infrastructure Operations team, focused on the platform and foundational services that power Justworks
- As a successful candidate, you have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, distributed applications
- You have worked within a service-oriented architecture and know how to separate data and functionality as necessary
- We work primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, but prior knowledge is not a requirement, and you should have a deep understanding that goes beyond the ability to use these tools
- Good judgement - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
- 8+ years of professional experience
- 5+ years of experience as DevOps or Infrastructure Engineer
- 3+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Ruby or Python
- Experience with log collection and analysis, builds and performance monitoring/tuning of infrastructure
- Demonstrate knowledge & experience of Linux, TCP/IP, HTTP and CI/CD
- Strong systems architecture and coding/scripting skills
- Experience working with complicated systems at scale
- AWS or Kubernetes Certification highly preferred
- Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms
What the job involves
- Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable and highly available on AWS
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
- Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure
- Enhance our testing, monitoring and continuous deployment infrastructure
- Keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure
- Promote knowledge sharing and overall DevOps culture in the organization
- Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship
- Perform other related duties as assigned
- As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
- In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS
- Ruby on Rails, Javascript/React, Redux, MySQL, PostgreSQL AWS, Git
- ElasticSearch, Docker, Redshift, CircleCI, DataDog
- Terraform, Puppet, K8s or EKS, Kafka or MSK
Our take
Justworks operates in an increasingly crowded space of all-in-one business operation suites, that include tools like human resources, payroll, employee management, benefits, and others that businesses critically need to operate as they scale.
Globally, human resource management has become an extremely fertile field, worth over $20 billion annually and predicted to grow to over $50 billion annually by 2030 - creating great opportunity for Justworks to continue to grow. The company is regarded as a market leader, but does see competition in the shape of Paychex Flex, Rippling, Paylocity, and TriNet, among others.
Solutions delivered by Justworks have proven to be extremely popular with SMEs, and this has not gone unnoticed by investors, with the company picking up exceptional amounts of funding. Justworks is known to have sights on going public, though action towards this end has been delayed until global mass-market conditions have settled from a period of volatility. However, the company's acquisition of
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Nov 2023
$16.9m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$50m
SERIES E
Total funding: $159.9m
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer work.
- Paid parental leave.
- Work from home opportunities.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus access to One Medical, Kindbody, and Teladoc.
- Premium access to Headspace, ClassPass stipends, and webinars to support your overall wellness on topics like nutrition, budgeting, mindfulness, and more.
- All Justworks offers include equity, and Justworkers can continue to earn more over time with promotions and tenure.
- Extensive learning & development opportunities through workshops, ExecOnline, Udemy, and BetterUp coaching.
- Engineering Apprenticeship program that supports internal movement and growth
Company values
- Camaraderie: As a growing company, we know how crucial teamwork, higher purpose, and a healthy dose of fun can be to success. Be an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness: We believe in radical transparency. This means being willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. Be curious, ask open questions, and be receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit: They say when the going gets tough, the tough get going. We are a team of hardworking individuals with the courage to persevere. Be committed, be earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity: We do the right thing. Be honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity: We make things easy for everyone to understand and do. Be innovative, unafraid of streamlining processes, a clear and concise communicator, and don't overcomplicate solutions.
Company HQ
Fulton Ferry District, NY
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Leadership
Isaac Oates
(Executive Chair)Experience as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon before founding Adtuitive and serving as COO for a year. Left this position to spend 3 years as a VP at Etsy, before founding Justworks.
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