Remote Backend + C++ + Engineer + SaaS + Security Jobs

RetailNext is looking to expand our SRE team. We need people who have the skillset of good backend developers to focus on the operation and reliability of our SAAS retail analytics solution.\n\nWe pull in and process data from thousands of brick and mortar stores to help our customers better understand and serve their customers. We actively develop in Go and use technologies like Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, gRPC, Kafka, PubSub/SQS, and more. We maintain legacy Ruby, NodeJS, Java, and C++ code.\nYou will be helping us operationalize new features, maintain the stability of the application, and improve how we develop and deploy it. This role includes being part of our on-call rotation, along with the backend team.\n\nPast SRE projects have included bringing cloud resources under Terraform management, migrating from StatsD to Prometheus, re-writing how our application collects diagnostic telemetry from deployed sensors, and much more.\n\nThis is a remote role in the United States or Canada. Our headquarters is in San Jose and you are welcome to work there if you prefer to work from an office, but most of the people you will be working with are elsewhere.\n\nWho you are:\n* Strong in at least one backend programming language (Go, NodeJS, Ruby, etc.)\n* Familiar with Linux (You know what the FHS, cgroups, etc. are)\n* Able to teach yourself new technologies and programming languages\n* Able to debug and fix issues in third-party open-source software\n* Meticulously diligent about security and reliability\n* Experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Release Engineering role\n\nBonus points:\n* Experience (re-)architecting distributed applications to fix scalability and reliability issues\n* Experience building and maintaining CI/CD processes\n* Experience operating Cassandra in a production environment\n* Experience with any cloud IAAS provider (we use both GCE and EC2)\n* Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform\n\nOur technical interviews involve writing and running real code, using your own familiar\ndevelopment tools while sharing your screen in an online meeting with some of our engineers.\nThe exercises include implementing functionality within provided scaffolding, and finding/fixing\nbugs in implemented code. \n\nPlease mention the word **THANK** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNQ==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $140,000 — $170,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nNorth America

\nLet's start with why we exist.\n\nFleet builds open source software to manage and secure computing infrastructure: employee laptops, cloud servers, and more. Our technology helps IT and security teams build trust within their organization, while getting their jobs done more effectively.\n\nFleet is an all-remote company with experienced founders, including two creators of popular open source projects and a compelling lead investor. Our business model is inspired by the success of GitLab and Elastic, and we have incredible early customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies with hundreds of thousands of endpoints.\n\n\nWhat happens when you join us?\n\n\n* As the first senior engineering hire, this position offers huge potential for growth.\n\n* You will write significant open source code, merging commits in your first days at the company.\n\n* You will work closely with the CTO and CEO to define technical and product vision.\n\n* Over time, you will establish yourself as a leader in Fleet's growing team and user community, whether through management or expert-level individual contributions.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy should you join us?\n\n\n* Work from anywhere with good internet. (We're 100% remote. No office. No commute.)\n\n* Help make endpoint monitoring less intrusive and more transparent.\n\n* Safeguard the production servers and employee laptops of Earth's largest companies.\n\n* Build greenfield features and make key technical decisions that go live in days.\n\n* Most (if not all) of the code you write is public and highly visible at github.com/fleetdm/fleet.\n\n\n\n\n\nAre you our new teammate?\n\n\n* You are competent with source control in Git. You have great written communication skills.\n\n* You can mentor other developers and do code reviews. Maybe you managed open source projects before; maybe you collaborated closely with more junior engineers at work.\n\n* You look forward to working with designers to improve the user experience of stuff you work on.\n\n* You bring senior talent to our team and open source community, with 4+ years of equivalent experience in one or more of the Engineering Foundations below (and interest in digging into the others).\n\n* Nice to have: Experience working on an all-remote, distributed team.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience working in IT operations and/or cybersecurity.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience working with Mobile Device Management (MDM) APIs.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience deploying/monitoring/managing containers with Docker/K8s.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEngineering Foundations\n\nAn ideal senior candidate has 4+ years equivalent experience in one or more of the following three engineering foundations (and interest in digging into the others):\n\nI. Frontend\n\nFleet’s frontend is a single page application (SPA) written in JavaScript with React and Redux. We strive for “convention over configuration”, offering a user experience that helps security and IT staff enjoy their jobs. There are many interesting challenges in helping our users understand the data collected from their laptops and servers.\n\n\n* Experience building and architecting SPAs in JavaScript/Typescript (2+ years of equivalent experience with React specifically.)\n\n* Expert CSS skills (we use Sass)\n\n* Ability to recommend and implement frontend testing patterns (E2E tests, etc.)\n\n* Nice to have: Experience developing responsive applications.\n\n* Nice to have: Familiarity with frontend performance profiling and optimization.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience building data visualizations (graphs, charts, etc.)\n\n* Nice to have: Experience with React Native, Electron.js, or similar.\n\n\n\n\nII. Backend\n\nFleet’s server is written in Go with go-kit. Deployments range from single servers to over 100,000 clients connected to horizontally scaled Fleet servers, handling tens of thousands of requests per minute. We aim to keep Fleet’s deployment as simple as possible to ease self-hosted deployment. MySQL and Redis are used for persistence and caching.\n\n\n* Experience building scalable, production quality servers.\n\n* Ability to recommend and implement backend testing patterns (E2E tests, etc.)\n\n* Familiarity with server and SQL performance profiling and optimization.\n\n* Familiarity with database migration strategies.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience programming with Go and go-kit.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience with Redis and/or MySQL.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience deploying and operating hosted SaaS services.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience working with Mobile Device Management (MDM) APIs.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience deploying/monitoring/managing containers with Docker/K8s\n\n\n\n\nIII. Endpoints\n\nFleet builds on top of the osquery agent (osquery.io), a Linux Foundation OSS project. Our CTO co-created osquery and serves on the Technical Steering Committee. On the endpoint we are building Orbit, a wrapper for osquery that will also become our platform for deploying additional open-source software such as Fleet Desktop (an interface for device users to interact with Fleet).\n\n\n* Experience developing applications on macOS, Linux, and/or Windows.\n\n* Familiarity with packaging tools: macOS .pkg, Linux .deb, Linux .rpm, Windows .msi, etc.\n\n* Familiarity with service persistence: macOS launchd, Linux systemd, Windows Services, etc.\n\n* Experience with building cross-platform user interfaces.\n\n* Experience managing and debugging performance of software installed on endpoints.\n\n* Readiness to write code that will directly impact performance for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\n* Nice to have: Go (for Orbit) and C++ (for osquery) programming experience.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience building and securing update systems for endpoint software.\n\n* Nice to have: Experience with low-level system APIs in macOS, Linux, and/or Windows.\n\n\n\n\nPlease include a few sentences about your experience with the Engineering Foundations in the "Experience" box of the application. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, JavaScript, Cloud, CSS, Mobile, Senior, Junior, SaaS, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nThe Opportunity\n\nSecurityScorecard is hiring an Ops Engineer to bridge the gap between our global development and operational teams who is motivated to help continue automating and scaling our infrastructure. The Ops Engineer will be responsible for setting up and managing the operation of project development and test environments as well as the software configuration management processes for the entire application development lifecycle. Your role would be to ensure the optimal availability, latency, scalability, and performance of our product platforms. You would also be responsible for automating production operations, promptly notifying backend engineers of platform issues, and checking long term quality metrics.\n\nOur infrastructure is based on AWS with a mix of managed services like RDS, ElastiCache, and SQS, as well as hundreds of EC2 instances managed with Ansible and Terraform. We are actively using three AWS regions, and have equipment in several data centers across the world.\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Training, mentoring, and lending expertise to coworkers with regards to operational and security best practises. \n\n* Reviewing and providing feedback on GitHub Pull Requests to team members AND development teams- a significant percentage of our Software Engineers have written Terraform.\n\n* Identifying opportunities for technical and process improvement and owning the implementation. \n\n* Championing the concepts of immutable containers, Infrastructure as Code, stateless applications, and software observability throughout the organization.\n\n* Systems performance tuning with a focus on high availability and scalability.\n\n* Building tools to ease the usability and automation of processes\n\n* Keeping products up and operating at full capacity\n\n* Assisting with migration processes as well as backup and replication mechanisms\n\n* Working on a large-scale distributed environment where you were focused on scalability/reliability/performance\n\n* Ensuring proper monitoring / alerting are configured\n\n* Investigating incidents and performance lapses\n\n\n\n\nCome help us with projects such as…\n\n\n* Extending our compute clusters to support low latency, on-demand job execution\n\n* Turning pets into cattle\n\n* Cross region replication of systems and corresponding data to support low latency access\n\n* Rolling out application performance monitoring to existing services, extending integrations where required\n\n* Migration from self hosted ELK to a SaaS stack\n\n* Continuous improvement of CI/CD processes making builds & deployments faster, safer, and more consistent\n\n* Extending a Global VPN WAN to a datacenter with IPSec+BGP\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years of DevOps and/or Operations experience\n\n* 1+ years of production environment experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)\n\n* 1+ years using SQL databases (MySQL, Oracle, Postgres)\n\n* Scripting ability (Bash, Python, C++ a plus)\n\n* Strong Experience with CI/CD processes (Jenkins, Ansible) and automated configuration tools (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)\n\n* Experience with container orchestration (AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Marathon/Mesos)\n\n* Ability to work as part of a highly collaborative team\n\n* Understanding of monitoring tools like DataDog\n\n* Strong written and verbal communication skills\n\n\n\n\nNice to Have\n\n\n* You knew exactly what is meant by "Turning pets into cattle"\n\n* Experience working with Kubernetes on bare-metal and/or the AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.\n\n* Experience with RabbitMQ, MongoDB, or Apache Kafka.\n\n* Experience with Presto or Apache Spark.\n\n* Familiarity with computation orchestration tools such as HTCondor, Apache Airflow, or Argo.\n\n* Understanding of network concepts- OSI layers, firewalls, DNS, split horizon DNS, VPN, routing, BGP, etc.\n\n* A deep understanding of AWS IAM, and how it interacts with S3 buckets.\n\n* Experience with SAFe.\n\n* Strong programming skills in 2+ languages.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Engineer, Amazon, SaaS, Apache and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n