Senior DevOps Engineer, Overleaf
$90.5-115k
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Online LaTeX editor
Job no longer available
Online LaTeX editor
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$90.5-115k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help make science and research faster, more open and more transparent.
Role
Who you are
- Have at least 5 years’ experience in DevOps (i.e. in software development and/or operations involving DevOps tools and ways of working)
- Have working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform, such as GCP, AWS or Azure, and be willing to learn GCP
- Have experience and understanding of web applications. Experience in the key technologies we use (Linux, Docker, Prometheus, node.js with JavaScript, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Storage) is of course a plus, but learning these on the job is also fine
- Be comfortable examining the code of our services when necessary, to debug or suggest improvements
- Have experience with the key concepts of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) that we use, such as SLIs and SLOs, and key SLIs, such as latency, throughput, error rates (and budgets) and saturation
- Have experience operating a system with some scale. We’re not yet “web scale”, but it’s not uncommon to see our systems processing tens of thousands of operations per second, and operating such systems does require care and planning
- Have a security-first mindset at all times, covering confidentiality, integrity and availability
- Be comfortable working in a fully remote team
- Have strong written and verbal communication in English
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our operations team and help us level up our DevOps workflows and practices
- Keep our systems running smoothly
- Make controlled changes to infrastructure. We use kustomize (with some skaffold) and terraform as our main Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
- Participate as a primary responder in our on-call rotation. We have two engineers on call at all times, a primary responder and an incident coordinator. There is additional compensation for time on call
- Improve and maintain runbooks and other documentation to help with knowledge transfer to other engineers, to increase the number of people who can be on-call. As a remote company, written documentation is particularly important to us
- Update service dependencies. We use hosted service providers wherever possible for databases, etc., to minimize toil, but some upgrades do still require coordination and testing, in collaboration with the software engineering team
- Review alerts and improve alerting policies
- Support improvements to logging, metrics and other observability tools to continue alignment with best practices
- Make it easy, fast and safe for developers to get code into production
- Improve and maintain (and create new) CI/CD pipelines. We use Google Cloud Build for CI and are looking at Google Cloud Deploy for CD
- Improve and maintain systems for detecting when a deploy needs to be rolled back and rolling it back
- Consult with software engineers during the design and implementation of code, to help the team as a whole operate what they build
- Participate in retrospectives and other software engineering team activities
- Keep our systems running securely. Overleaf, as part of Digital Science, certifies against ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and we are working toward other information security certifications
- Support our information security team with ongoing audits
- Work toward continuous improvement of our security posture
- Use security tools in our environment, such as firewall and IAM rules, effectively
- Keep cloud costs under control. We have budget alerts to be monitored and adjusted, and we periodically review for opportunities to optimize spend
- Stay up to date with best practices and advocate for these in the operations team and the wider engineering team
- Our core hours are 2pm–5pm UK time, during which the entire team is expected to be available for meetings. Around that, flexible working is allowed and encouraged
Application process
- Screening Call with Recruiter
- Interview with Engineering Director
- Task
- Final Group Interview
Our take
Dubbed the Google Docs for science, Overleaf enables modern collaborative authoring tools for academics. Its primary product is an online, real-time collaborative editor for papers, theses, technical reports, and so on, written in the LaTeX markup language.
Despite being founded in 2012, it has experienced its largest phase of growth only relatively recently. This is partially due to an increased need for collaborative tools among scientists who are working in globally distributed teams, but also because of Overleaf's growing reputation as a sophisticated platform for academics. It passed the 10 million user mark in 2021 and has continued to grow steadily in popularity.
The company, in its own words, has entered a new era, and describes its goal as becoming the first port of call for scientific writing for researchers, students and enterprises alike. With a product under constant development and a large and enthusiastic community of users, it is well poised to achieve its aim.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2013
$0.1m
SEED
Total funding: $0.1m
Company benefits
- Remote and flexible working
- You would join a small, dedicated and growing team
- We're substantially (around 80%) open source, so your work will often be on open source
- We're backed by Bethnal Green Ventures (https://bethnalgreenventures.com/) and Digital Science (https://www.digital-science.com/), through which we're part of a wider community of startups in science, health and ed-tech
- Our London office is shared with several other Digital Science companies, so there's lots of interesting people to meet, and clubs and sports activities outside of work
- You can pick your own equipment. MacBook Pro? Lenovo ThinkPad? Notebook and pen? However you like to work, we'll provide what you need
- We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials
- We run a biweekly internal seminar series (show and tell) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
John Lees-Miller
(CTO)Previously served as a Systems Engineer for Advanced Transport Systems - Ultra PRT, Network and Website Supervisor for Lister Hall Student Association, and as CTO for A Virtual View.
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