Development Operations Engineer

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead the way in our platform automation and site reliability. Working closely with a small team, the ideal candidate will make big decisions on the future of Activehours. You will be expected to lend your experience to shaping, defining, and tweaking all of our key systems as we scale beyond hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Silicon Valley, this position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.

Skills & Requirements

Who you are

Smart: You have a broad skillset and learn new technologies quickly

Passionate: You’re driven to build tools that impact people’s lives

Collaborative: You excel working both within a team and cross-functionally with other teams

Loyal: You will take up arms (Nerf guns) to defend your teammates against attackers

Learner: you’re not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about your mistakes

What you’ll do

Help shape our next generation platform

Automate everything

Continuously improve our visibility into our systems and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analytics

Identify root causes on critical problems throughout the platform & take steps to resolve them

Create & follow-up on site incident reports and see them through to resolution

Communicate across third party services to resolve day-to-day issues and relay updates to the team

Build and deploy tools to ensure the health and reliability of Activehours systems

Architect & manage product release workflow & live deployments with continuous delivery system

Experiment with technologies and share learnings with the team to push our tech-forward mentality

Technical qualifications

5+ years combined experience as software engineer, software engineer in test, systems administrator, site reliability engineer or any combination of roles

You are proficient at writing code and do so in order to automate infrastructure, improve system reliability and optimize continuous delivery pipelines

We're a group of passionate and experienced developers split between Cincinnati and Palo Alto. Our Cincinnati team has a strong background in financial services and back-end development, while our Palo Alto team is focused on mobile development, growth hacking, and data processing and analytics. We collaborate throughout the day on via Slack, FaceTime and Hangouts. We work in a very collaborative and fun environment, free drinks and snacks, lunch catered in on Fridays.