Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Observable

$150-200k

Estimated base salary dependent on experience

SQL

AWS

Docker

TypeScript

JavaScript

Heroku

Sentry

Snowflake

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

Data visualization platform for developers

Job no longer available

Data visualization platform for developers

21-100 employees

B2BEducationInternal toolsAnalyticsSaaSCommunity

Job no longer available

$150-200k

Estimated base salary dependent on experience

SQL

AWS

Docker

TypeScript

JavaScript

Heroku

Sentry

Snowflake

Datadog

Senior and Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Remote from US

21-100 employees

B2BEducationInternal toolsAnalyticsSaaSCommunity

Company mission

To redefine how businesses use data with a unified platform for every step of the data workflow and tools for every role.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

8+ years of related experience working with production systems, Cloud providers, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), security best practices, etc
An enthusiasm for data, visualization, and technology
Excitement! We are a startup that recently embarked on a new product direction (see the announcement for Observable 2.0). We’re building cool things and we want your help

What the job involves

Observable is seeking a full-time infrastructure and site reliability engineer to help improve, administrate, and grow Observable systems as we scale to meet our customer’s needs
Perform site reliability and ops work for Observable production and staging environments. (Manage servers! Tweak WAF rules! Optimize SQL queries! And more!)
Design and implement new infrastructure and processes to support our growing cloud services
Participate in oncall rotation, monitoring Observable systems and responding to production issues

Our take

For millions of people, the complexity of the world's data presents very real obstacles to understanding. So Observable has created a platform to discover and learn data visualization techniques, with collaboration built in.

The company believes working with data is an essential skill for everyone. The Observable community is made up of hundreds of thousands of developers, data scientists, students and teachers. They create and share work to help visitors understand the limitless potential of code.

The company is also helping organizations to make decisions with data, and classes at MIT that are working in Observable every day. The company has so far completed 3 rounds of series funding, which have supported lasting growth and tech innovation.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Led by a woman

Top investors

30% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jan 2022

$35.6m

SERIES B

Nov 2020

$10.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $46.1m

Company benefits

Remote-first work culture
100% paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees & their families
401(k) with matching
Flexible PTO and 17 company holidays in 2025
Home office setup stipend
Annual learning stipend
Monthly AI tool stipend
Team and company off-sites

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Julio A.

(Co-CEO)

Co-founder and Advisor at shades, and Member of the Board of Directors at Merico. Spent 5 years at GitHub working in strategy, business and ops.

Mike Bostock

(Co-CEO & Founder)

Previously a Graphics Editor at The New York Times, Visualization Scientist at Square and Staff Engineer at Google.

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