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About Smartly.io
At its heart, Smartly.io is a product company. We’re building tools that help our customers work smarter and grow their businesses.
We want to be the best in the world at what we do—building a world-class product and service for our customers. The only way to succeed is to stay humble yet ambitious. We ask for and act on candid feedback to learn continuously from both our customers and teammates. We don’t rest on our laurels, there’s always room to improve.
Position
Smartly.io is looking for a DevOps — Site Reliability Engineer to work closely with the development teams and customer-facing teams to continuously improve, support, secure, and operate our production and test environments.
We believe in automating our infrastructure as much as possible and pursuing challenging problems in a sustainable and repeatable way. Currently, our infrastructure processes petabytes of data every month through hundreds of servers.
Our toolchain
- Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Logstash, Jenkins, Grafana
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, Elasticsearch
- Hybrid Cloud: 1100+ dedicated servers and Private Cloud, Infrastructure as code
Find out more about what it's like to be an engineer at Smartly.io at smartly.io/developer and smartly.io/blog/how-engineers-work-at-smartlyio.
Your qualification
- Production experience with distributed/scalable systems consisting of multiple microservices and high traffic web applications
- Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, Salt, Puppet
- Deep knowledge of the Linux operating system
- Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosing low-level OS issues to large-scale failures within distributed systems
- Knowledge of how the web works and HTTP fundamentals
- Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewalling
Will be a plus
- Good knowledge of at least one programming language. Smartly uses Python, Ruby, PHP, NodeJS
- Containerizing application and deployment to production (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience in SQL, building complex queries and procedures
- SQL databases like PostgreSQL, NoSQL stores like Redis or anything in between
- Knowledge in good security practices, including network security, system hardening, secure software, compliance GDPR
- Familiarity with automated build pipeline / continuous integration using Jenkins, Hubot, Kubernetes/Docker. With this setup, we're deploying to production 20 times per day!
- Experience building large-scale data processing pipelines
What we offer
- Competitive salary + option plans
- Full 5 weeks of paid annual leave
- Healthcare insurance/service
- Wellness and personal development (tools, events, etc.) reimbursement
- Work with the nicest and brightest teammates in a self-organizing team
- Opportunity to travel to meet customers, Facebook and Smartlies at our offices around the world via our Developer Rotation program
- Enjoy weekly breakfasts and quarterly dinners with the team
Additional details
What to expect from our recruiting process:
- First meeting: we want to know who you are and what motivates you, before diving deeper into your tech skills. This is also an opportunity for you to learn more about Smartly.io
- Technical interview: we’ll discuss various areas from front end development to networks, security, and development methods. We’re trying to get a clear overview of your skills and where you could learn more. We don’t expect anyone to be an expert in everything
- Coding exercise: we’ll be doing code review/pair programming an Ansible playbook to make sure that you can also work with code. Previous experience with Ansible is not necessarily required, because the session will be very interactive
- Meet your future DevOps team to learn what they are working with. After that the final interview with our Engineering Director and your team lead