Senior DevOps Engineer

As a DevOps Architect at Parabol, you’ll bring new experiences to life that shape the daily work experience of a growing user base, designing and building along with an inspiringly talented and kind team.

We Are:

• Creators of Parabol, the open-source meeting app for remote and agile teams
• Backed by top investors: Microsoft, Slack Fund, CRV, and Haystack
• Committed to transparency, honesty, empathy, experimentation, and play
• A fully-distributed global team who value flexible scheduling and travel
• An Equal Opportunity Employer

You Are:

• An ace containerization and infrastructure engineer, who keeps up-to-date on the latest patterns and technologies
• Somebody who loves open-source software & wants to share your code with the world
• Comfortable designing a scalable infrastructure from the ground up
• Experienced in deploying auto-scalable micro-services
• An empathetic and generous communicator that lives by, “don’t hate, iterate”

Your experience:

• Designing and developing CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Run, Gitlab Runner, GitHub Actions, and Circle CI)
• Administering and deploying kubernetes (GKE (preferred), AKE, AKS)
• Cloud experience, especially with Google Cloud Platform or AWS. (GCP preferred)
• Deploying microservices
• General scripting and development experience (python and bash)
• General observability and monitoring experience (e.g. application alerting, database metrics, outage response)
• Developer experience mindset (e.g. onboarding developers, supporting development environments, assisting with application onboarding to CI/CD)
• Nice to have: Observability and monitoring with Datadog
• Nice to have: Experience using Github and Gitlab
• Nice to have: A security-focused mindset with experience securing environments and applications.

Commitment & Accountabilities

• Full-time employment
• Architecting and maintaining a solid SaaS infrastructure and CI/CD pipeline
• Advising clients and developing patterns for deploying self-hosted version of Parabol
• 💰 Fair & location-agnostic pay:US-based salaries, no matter where you’re based.  Plus: early-stage equity in a well-funded, fast-growing startup.
• 🐙🐱Work in the open: Our code is open source, and so is our way of working. We’ve been publishing a weekly update since 2015.
• 🌞 People-first schedules: We limit recurring meetings to 1-2 hours per week per team, with no synchronous daily standups. We offer unlimited PTO to everyone, and encourage folks to take time off. We also have both company-wide and country-specific holidays.
• 🌍 Work from anywhere with people around the globe: Our current team stretches from Los Angeles, California to Warsaw, Poland. Work wherever works for you.
• 🌀 Growing faster through experimentation and autonomy: From peer code reviews to monthly sales experiments, we structure our work to maximize learning. Everyone owns their work and can develop their skills quickly.
• 🛫 Global travel: All-expenses-paid company retreats and team retreats.
• ✨An Equal Opportunity Employer: We founded Parabol to help build stronger teams by empowering members to be their authentic selves. Our company is no exception.
• 💖 Great teammates: An inclusive team of curious and purposeful people on a mission to improve how work gets done.
• 💪 Health care: We work with local partners to provide healthcare & benefits that are aligned with top industry standards.
• 🔢 No standard coding questions or whiteboard interviews: We’ll assess how we work together by collaborating on a short paid project  We want to know how you actually work, not how many LeetCode / Project Euler / Stack Overflow questions you can answer.