Sr DevOps Software Engineer

Description

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our team. We’re looking for a passionate and efficiency-driven Infrastructure Engineer who can build automated, testable, and repeatable projects. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.

Bird’s eye view of the role:

• Be an automator: we’re using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
• Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
• Be a game changer: we’re building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we’re using technologies like Docker in production on top of Mesos, and Apache Kafka.
• Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
• Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Expert knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Rackspace, and Heroku)
• Expert knowledge of Multi-Region Topologies, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Proxy Servers, SNS, SQS, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
• Capable of architecting frictionless security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
• At ease with troubleshooting in complex environments through experience using monitoring and logging tools (such as NewRelic, DataDog, Graylog, and Kibana)
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform & GoLang
• Experience of build tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI), and repositories (e.g. Quay.io)
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, Vagrant)
• Experience working with RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, RDS, and Redshift)
• Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
• Experienced working in/with Lean, DevOps cultures
• Experience in requirements identification, solution analysis/testing, and product selection
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Brownie points for:

• Contributions to Open Source projects
• Advanced networking experience and/or knowledge
• Security experience and/or knowledge
• Experience with microservice and/or event-driven architecture
• Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
• Experience with Data Warehouses
• Past experience working in a highly-regulated industry
• Experience working in global companies with multiple geographies

Why Join Us?

Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package. From learning and development and commuter stipends to a competitive salary, equity, and health benefits, we’ve got you covered! That being said, have you heard about what we're doing?! Our mission is what really motivates us to come to work each day:

• We're supporting small business, the engine of economic growth.
• We're helping facilitate higher yields for investors and lower interest rates for borrowers.
• We can fund loans extremely quickly, all online!
• We have a clear competitive advantage globally in areas like domain expertise and regulatory processes.