PeerStreet, a well-funded startup based in Los Angeles, is seeking an experienced and forward thinking Lead DevOps Engineer to help build the future of real estate finance.

We are entering our next phase of significant growth and are looking for top engineers to play an integral role in helping us execute on our goals. If you want to make a huge impact on a very visible commercial product and transform a massive industry, PeerStreet is the place for you.

More specifically, you would be facilitating high velocity product innovation through the use of best-in-class cloud computing infrastructure, automation and tools.

Our applications are built with REST and event-driven architectures using Ruby on Rails and Go languages. Our data lives on Postgres RDS and Kafka. Our deployment stack includes Terraform, Github Actions and Helm, powered by Kubernetes in AWS EKS. We are looking for people with a solid technical understanding in these areas and languages. We offer a competitive salary, equity, and opportunity to work with a strong results-driven team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the roadmap for maintaining and strengthening our AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure
• Collaborate with peers in engineering, data and QA to deliver product value at maximum velocity
• Prioritize tasks and manage team’s backlog
• Run daily standups and bi-weekly teams sync up meetings
• Mature our logging, monitoring and alerting systems
• Ensure best practices in access control and secrets management
• Assist with security and compliance efforts
• Establish and maintain triage and incident response processes
• Solve availability, reliability, and latency issues across the stack
• Provide active guidance and mentorship to fellow members of DevOps team

Requirements:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience
• Experience maintaining production Kubernetes cluster(s)
• Strong grasp of deployment automation and configuration management on AWS (Terraform preferred)
• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (Elastic search, Kibana, Grafana, Fluent.d, Prometheus) and designing alerting systems
• Solid experience with administration of various AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, EKS, API Gateway, Lambda, Cloudfront and more)
• Prior experience with CI/CD and associated toolsets (Github Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc)
• Experience with Information Security best practices/Disaster Recovery environments
• Solid understanding of systems and application design
• Skilled at clearly articulating design ideas while being receptive to constructive criticism
• Never ending desire to learn and improve
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship (H1B transfers okay)

Bonus Points:

• Excellence in multiple technology disciplines (eg: Technical Operations, Backend Development)
• Good knowledge of relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Contribution to Open Source
• Burning desire to use technology to eliminate inefficiencies in the financial markets

About PeerStreet

PeerStreet, founded in 2013, is an award-winning software platform for investing in real estate debt, acting as a two-sided marketplace that serves both investors and private lenders. Much like Amazon and Airbnb have aligned buyers and sellers through their marketplace, PeerStreet does the same, connecting investors with unprecedented access to quality real estate investments and lenders with global, diversified capital sources.

We’re a private financial technology company backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Thomvest, and Felicis Ventures, among others. We strive to ensure our best-in-class company culture grows with us by investing in our employees so they can perform at their best. And we walk the walk, with company equity, unlimited FTO, comprehensive health care coverage, company-wide celebrations (in and out of the office), and more. So join us at our sunny headquarters in El Segundo, CA, and help us transform the real estate investing industry—forever and for the better.