Senior DevOps Engineer

At Booknook, you will

• Combine engineering experience and a process-driven mindset that drives you to improve existing systems and processes
• Build systems to allow us to ship code faster and more reliably. And help us achieve our goal of zero-downtime continuous delivery by improving our existing CI/CD pipeline (CircleCI)
• Define and own processes, strategies, architecture and tooling for improving our current processes for maintaining robust, highly-available products and services.
• Work collaboratively with engineering teams to define healthy on-call responsibilities distributed across our organization
• Maintain a healthy work-life balance by managing a triage program that distributes burden and responsibility to others on the team
• Implement automated systems and processes for weekly production-health status reports with ever-improving reliability metrics.
• Design and implement automated system for monitoring and alerting, and educate the engineering team on how to leverage them as part of the on-call rotation
• Measure and improve app performance
• Schedule and monitor jobs for various automated test suites into CI/CD pipeline
• Play an active role in improving the team’s security posture
• Perform post-mortems and in-depth root cause analysis on production outages to ensure we are always improving

What we’re looking for

• 7+ years as a Site Reliability or DevOps Engineer with proficiency in one or more high-level languages (such as Ruby, Python, Java, or JavaScript) required. We run a Nodejs / Postgres stack that leverages Google Firebase for realtime sync.
• An understanding of what it takes to design and run services at scale – and achieve the capabilities with infrastructure as code.
• Previous experience working on cloud based infrastructure, CI/CD systems, docker containers, all while leveraging an infrastructure as code solution. We host our services on Heroku, AWS and Google Cloud, and are looking for someone who would be interested in helping us iterate on a container-based infrastructure as we grow.
• Hands-on experience in at least one of the following: saltstack, chef, puppet, ansible or other mainstream deployment orchestration tool.
• Operational knowledge/experience in AWS and GCP
• Experience scaling applications & capacity management.
• A fondness for learning and tackling new and exciting technical challenges.
• A passion for teaching and our company mission. Many BookNook employees are former educators.

What you’ll get from us

• Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like in the US.
• Health insurance: We offer medical, dental, vision, and pet insurance for all our team members.
• Time to recharge: We offer unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays, and two company-wide weeks off.
• 401(k): With a 3% company match.
• Employee stock purchase programRetreat: Join us for our annual company get-together.
• Home office setup: Get a laptop + a $100 monthly stipend for home expenses.