Senior Software Developer, Backend Operations

Description

About us

Wire is a European start-up building a modern, secure and open source privacy-focused communications experience. We are a Swiss company with a development center in Berlin, Germany. Our people come from a wide range of backgrounds, united by shared passion for communication, design and technology. www.wire.com

Benefits

When you join:

Work with experts, multicultural team from 20 nationalities, competitive salary, relocation support, career growth opportunities, beautiful office with a rooftop terrace in the heart of Berlin.

Day-to-day:

Functional programming languages, hardware of your choice, adjustable standing desks, high quality chairs, regular tech talks, developer meetups in the office, bike storage, table tennis, foosball, yoga, breakfasts and lunches.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and run our services in the cloud (currently we use AWS) 
• Manage our own Cassandra/ElasticSearch clusters 
• Automate our infrastructure deployment and management (using ansible or other), together with other in-house developed tools 
• Work on Open Source code; mostly Haskell, but also Rust is gaining some popularity. You can see a lot of our server code at https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server 

Requirements

• Excited about designing, building, and running distributed and scalable systems 
• Experience with AWS (or other cloud providers) 
• Experience in automating builds and deployments 
• Unix/Linux environments, including the ability to analyze and troubleshoot potential networking issues 
• Containerization technologies 

We highly value:

• Interest in statically-typed functional languages 
• Passion for clean code and elegant solutions (continuously improving current ones) 

Education

BS in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience