Senior DevOps Engineer, Bird
Electric vehicle sharing platform
Open for applications
Electric vehicle sharing platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make cities more livable by reducing car usage, traffic, and carbon emissions.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer specializing in infrastructure to join our dynamic engineering team
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in STEM with 6+ years of professional, relevant experience
- 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes, terraform, vault, helm, datadog
- Extensive experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, ECS, RDS, VPC, Route53, Networking, etc)
- Experience developing, debugging and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Github Actions, etc)
- Working knowledge with Kafka
- Experience with Object Oriented programming and JVM
Desirable
- Experience with Flink and real-time streaming systems
- Experience in Kotlin, Golang, Avro, and Java
- Working experience in Big Data infrastructure
- Experience in Geospatial and IOT systems
What the job involves
- In this role, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining the underlying systems and frameworks that support our software applications and services
- Your expertise in building scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions will be instrumental in ensuring the smooth operation and performance of our technology stack
- As a Senior Software Engineer for infrastructure, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and help support the CI/CD pipelines
- You will be responsible for architecting and implementing scalable systems in AWS that can handle high traffic loads, optimizing performance and resource utilization, and ensuring high availability and fault tolerance by leveraging tools like helm, terraform, vault, kubernetes, etc
- Set direction and guide implementation of core platform and infrastructure systems to support rapid feature iteration
- Define patterns and operational guidelines for software development and deployment
- Do critical R&D in timely fashion
- Work across all disciplines of engineering at Bird: Software, Firmware, and Hardware to identify gaps and advocate for solutions
- Design fault tolerant, highly available systems
- Be part of 24/7 support rotation for critical systems
Our take
The demand for more eco-friendly urban transit solutions has been on the rise for a while now, and Bird is one of the companies that has answered this call. The company supplies lightweight, speed-capped electric vehicles for city travel - such as bikes and scooters.
Competition in the space has been famously fierce, but at one point Bird was one of the biggest companies of its kind. It was active in more that 450 cities worldwide, though it has since hit a rough patch. This saw the company exiting dozens of markets and ultimately declaring bankruptcy in 2023.
The company is now restructuring in hopes it can regain its footing, strengthen its balance sheet and position itself for long-term sustainable growth. Interestingly, Bird Canada was not part of its parent company's filing and continues operations as before.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2021
$208m
LATE VC
Jan 2020
$75m
SERIES D
Total funding: $973m
Company benefits
- Wellness stipend and a resource for personal and professional development
- Generous time off and parental leave
- Health and childcare savings options
- Free Bird credits
- Work from home opportunities + Stipend of $100/month
- Health insurance
Company values
- Community-focused: We care deeply about improving mobility in cities across the globe
- Inclusive: We seek the missing perspective and leverage our diverse backgrounds
- Impact-oriented: We focus on results that bring our mission within reach, for everyone
- Entrepreneurial: We celebrate innovation and learn quickly from failure
- Efficient: We’re obsessed with efficiency and wise with time and money
Company HQ
Downtown, Santa Monica, CA
Articles
Leadership
Travis VanderZanden
(Founder & Chairman)Previously worked as COO of Lyft and VP of Global Driver Growth at Uber. Co-founder & former CEO of Cherry.com.
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