DevOps Engineer

About Housing Anywhere

We change the way people find accommodation around the world. Housing Anywhere is a housing platform where people can rent out rooms to international students. It originally started as a platform where outgoing exchange students can rent out their rooms when they go abroad. Incoming exchange students can rent these rooms. Nowadays, it's a global platform where demand & supply of rooms for international students meet each other.

Position

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be joining our Platform Infrastructure Team, inside the Product Development division. As we have reached the scaleup phase at HousingAnywhere, our rapid growth has brought on new challenges.

Since we were early adopters of cloud infrastructure on GCP we have the challenge to replatform HousingAnywhere systems on top of a secure foundation, and we are building a platform that other teams can use to run and operate their services with more autonomy.

You will practice cloud native methodologies and lean towards cloud native solutions with the backbone being Kubernetes (GKE). As a DevOps advocate, you will contribute to the efforts and direction that other teams will build upon to easily and safely run their services, monitor them, and react to incidents in a timely manner.

As advocate of security and data privacy by design, you facilitate other teams to run and operate their services securely, while letting them focus on their domains.

Our stack

Our services are mostly built with Go, and data persisted in PostgreSQL database(s). GCP is our Cloud Provider of choice, and our services run inside Docker containers on several Kubernetes clusters. We use gRPC for internal communication, though we prefer async events on NSQ. Our Frontend stack is built on React/TypeScript. We version our code with Git.

The Platform Infrastructure team works on developing and maintaining HousingAnywhere platform, its API, and its Infrastructure.

Our challenge

We are evolving HousingAnywhere into a rental platform. We do so by building an event-driven architecture while making heavy use of DDD, DevOps and Agile principles and Contract First Development practices.

We are innovating our cloud infrastructure by focusing on cloud native practices, and by investing in Kubernetes, Docker and Serverless technologies.

The role of the DevOps Engineer

• Build tools on top of our Infrastructure platform, with great Developer Experience and simple to use by our product teams
• Apply DevOps principles and SRE practices, and advocate for them
• Facilitate product teams and enable them to deploy and operate their services 
• Take care of quality standards of availability, performance, security and data privacy, monitor them, and include them when designing and refining new solutions 
• Contribute to the Cloud Infrastructure strategy on GCP, to achieve our technical goals and improve our cloud infrastructure KPIs 
• Ensure the services that the organisation manages are healthy, secure and operational, through monitoring and SREs principles
• Find, review and communicate about security threats to non-technical stakeholders and propose a plan of approach when needed
• Maintain and evolve our secure foundation on GCP and our cloud infrastructure and GitOps setup
• Manage and maintain our Kubernetes clusters architecture, and execute on our Cloud Native strategy 
• Implement features in our GitOps and Infrastructure as Code setup, maintain CI/CD pipelines used by our teams 
• Provide technical support and manage incidents when needed

Your qualification

The type of profile that could excel in the role typically has around 5 years of relevant experience in managing infrastructure for complex distributed systems at scale. 2 years of previous experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) is desirable. We use GCP so we expect a willingness to learn it if it isn’t the Cloud provider in your toolbelt.

Our systems are Linux based, so experience working with Linux based systems is a must. We use Go, Python and JavaScript. Knowledge of the languages is not needed on a daily basis for the role, but you may need to learn.

What we offer

• You have the opportunity to take full ownership of your work and dare to do things differently. Here, all ideas matter
• Work with a creative, diverse and inclusive team! Think 120+ people from 30+ different nationalities
• Budget for Dutch or English classes to help you kick off your stay in the Netherlands, and help you immerse into the Dutch culture
• 10% of the time on personal development and side projects 
• Work in a spacious, modern and brand new office in heart of Rotterdam, with free coffee and snacks, and a social space with entertainment facilities
• Personal equipment including new MacBook, screens and adjustable tables and chairs
• Work from anywhere is our policy, including flexible working hours
• Unlimited holiday policy, with a minimum amount mandatory each year
• Are you coming from abroad? We provide a relocation package

Practicalities

• Full-time position (40 hours a week) w/ schedule flexibility
• An opportunity to work remotely or on-site at our HQ in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Relocation package with visa sponsorship provided

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Housing Anywhere.