Remote Backend + DevOps + Education + Linux Jobs

####**Description**\nQuantic School of Business and Technology is an accredited international university with students and alumni from 50 states and over 100 countries. We're on a mission to democratize access to high quality education programs and career advancement opportunities. Quantic offers MBA and Executive MBA degrees and combines the best of traditional top MBA programs with the next generation of interactive online learning. Founded by the former CEO and fellow executives of Rosetta Stone, Quantic is a rapidly expanding company seeking candidates who thrive in a fast-paced environment with opportunity for growth.\n####**Your Role**\nQuantic is hiring a DevOps Engineer, based remotely in the United States, to help us grow and manage our interactive learning platform, content authoring tools, alumni network, and supporting services. In this role, you'll work with our engineering team as we continue to build and scale our flagship platform to learners around the world. As part of a rapidly growing startup, you’ll have the opportunity to work on a variety of initiatives, including the design, development, operation, and automation of modern infrastructure components that power our next-generation university. Our team works in a highly collaborative environment,and we expect our engineers to be versatile and enthusiastic about learning to tackle new problems every day, often working directly with stakeholders across the organization.\nAn aside: while this job description lists a number of specific skills, the role will be tailored to the unique attributes of the individual that eventually joins. We encourage you to apply if you love collaborating in a positive environment with other engineers in support of a growing userbase.\n####**Requirements**\n* 3+ years of experience with the AWS platform (EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM preferred)\n* 3+ years of experience managing relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)\n* Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm\n* Experience with Ruby on Rails and corresponding best practices\n* Experience writing, profiling, and optimizing SQL\n* Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines\n* Solid foundation in Linux system administration and security best practices\n* Experience architecting secure networks\n* Authorization to work in the US\n####**Preferred Qualifications**\n* BS degree in Computer Science or a similar field of study\n* Comprehensive understanding of full-stack performance optimization\n* Experience tuning PostgreSQL, Redis, Redshift, Nginx, and Puma\n* Experience with multi-region deployments\n* Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus and Grafana preferred)\n* Knowledge of resource scaling theory and implementation\n* Familiarity with GitOps and ChatOps automation\n* Experience at an agile start-up\n####**Benefits**\n* Competitive salary + options\n* 401k\n* Medical/Dental/Vision\n* STD/LTD\n* Generous paid time off\n* Student loan assistance\n* Remote-first culture; distributed team \n\nPlease mention the words **AGE SAUCE HINT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nUnited States

\nSummary\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a System Performance Engineer to join its Performance Team. We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers, motivated to explore and innovate with ways to improve and monitor the performance and availability of Wikipedia and its sister projects.\n\nWe continuously measure performance on a fully Free and Open Source software stack, monitoring synthetic measurements (WebPageTest, WebPageReplay, Browsertime) and Real User Monitoring (direct collection, stored in Prometheus/Graphite). We also monitor the performance of our backend services (PHP, MariaDB, Varnish) and leverage an ELK stack for logging. This wealth of performance data is made available to the public through Grafana dashboards and open datasets. We are looking to complement the team’s wide area of expertise with a person who has in-depth knowledge of system-level performance (Linux kernel, containers).\n\nWe strive to be the performance standard bearer in the Foundation and the Wikimedia community. We aim to be visible in the performance community and work to influence others and bring learnings to the team.\n\nWikipedia and its sister projects are themselves powered by Free and Open Source software with MediaWiki at their core, surrounded by an ecosystem of services in PHP, Node.js, and Python. The web traffic is served from geographically distributed caching clusters powered by Varnish and Apache Traffic Server.\n\nIf you find what we do interesting, and you are excited by improving the reliability and delivery of one of the Internet’s top 10 websites, you might be just the person we need. Come as you are!\n\nYou are responsible for:\n\n\n* Reviewing the architectural design of new services that need to operate at scale\n\n* Monitoring services in production, and finding opportunities for optimizing their performance and resource utilization\n\n* Investigating, diagnosis and follow-up on incidents or outages in Wikimedia’s infrastructure\n\n* Troubleshooting and follow-up on emerging issues in our application stack\n\n* Interfacing between the Performance Team and the Site Reliability Engineering team (SRE)\n\n* Utilizing configuration management and deployment tooling (Puppet, Kubernetes)\n\n\n\n\nSkills and Experience:\n\n\n* 2+ years experience in a System Performance, SRE or DevOps position or equivalent\n\n* Experience in supporting complex web applications running on Linux\n\n* Experience working with Python, Go or PHP applications\n\n* B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience\n\n* Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (such as Puppet, Ansible, or Chef), and modern observability infrastructure (such as Prometheus, or Logstash)\n\n* Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE or DevOps context (such as Python, Bash, or Go)\n\n* Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and sysadmin debugging\n\n\n\n\nQualities that are important to us:\n\n\n* Creativity to improve our infrastructure\n\n* Ability to work as an effective part of a globally distributed team\n\n* Aptitude for automation and streamlining of recurring tasks\n\n* Sharing our Values and working in accordance with them\n\n\n\n\nAdditionally, we’d love it if you have:\n\n\n* A track record of open source contributions\n\n* Experience with low-level systems troubleshooting (CPU/memory profiling, C/C++ experience, in-depth Linux knowledge)\n\n* Familiarity with modern distributed container management systems (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, …)\n\n* Experience with advanced distributed storage and database systems (Swift, Ceph, Cassandra, etc.)\n\n* Remote work experience with a highly distributed team\n\n\n\n\n\nU.S. Benefits & Perks*\n\n\n* Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)\n\n* The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more\n\n* The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary\n\n* Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.\n\n* Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.\n\n* For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program\n\n* Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses\n\n* Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available\n\n* Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax\n\n* Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people\n\n\n\n\n*Eligible international workers' benefits are specific to their location and dependent on their employer of record\n\nMore information\n\nWMF\nBlog\nWikimedia 2030\nWikimedia Medium Term Plan\nDiversity and inclusion information for Wikimedia workers, by the numbers\nWikimania 2019\nAnnual Report - 2017 \nThis is Wikimedia Foundation \nFacts Matter\nOur Projects\nFundraising Report \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, DevOps, Education, PHP, Apache, 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

\nStudent debt and access to education are critical issues of our time. We help students and colleges succeed. You can make a major impact. Deliver on technology products that students and colleges want. Be an early member of the technology portion of our team. Learn and experience as this growing and profitable company delivers. Architect, execute and contribute. Work closely with our crack team of technologists, industry experts, and entrepreneurs.\n\n\nFATV utilizes a wide range of open-source technologies to deliver top notch products to our clients including Node.js, React, Next.js, Drupal, MongoDB, Solr, and MySQL.\n\n\nWhile working at FATV you will be challenged to architect, build, and maintain the software components that are critical to our success.\n\n\nIdeal candidates are enthusiastic about the latest web technologies and are excited to bring their expertise to the table to improve our products.  We are a small team that relies on strong communication and a can-do attitude.\n\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\n\n* 5+ years of backend development experience\n\n* 3+ years experience with Javascript and Node.js\n\n* 2+ years of React.js experience\n\n* 8+ years of relevant software development experience\n\n* Skilled with modern databases (MySQL, Redis, and MongoDB)\n\n* Experienced with DevOps methodologies and Docker\n\n* Familiar with Typescript, Redux, Drupal, Solr\n\n* Proficient with modern front-end web technologies and techniques: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Responsive design\n\n* Proficient in the use of development tools including Git and JIRA\n\n* Strong communication skills, team player\n\n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n\n* Experience with Next.js or other server-side rendered Javascript framework\n\n* Experience with AI and machine learning\n\n* Experience developing real-time applications\n\n* Experience with Linux and web server administration\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 JavaScript, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Education, Git, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

\nDev Ops (MoodleCloud)\n\nType: Full-time\n\nLocation: Between UTC-8 and UTC+1 (eg Europe, American continents)\n\nMoodle is an award-winning international open-source project providing essential software used by educational institutions and companies around the world. We have a growing community of millions of users, over 200 regular developers, and over 70 royalty-paying partner companies world-wide, all coordinated by our own team based in Perth, where Moodle was founded.\n\nWe are building a state-of-the-art MoodleCloud hosted service for educators worldwide. The MoodleCloud team is growing and is looking to engage an experienced, reliable, independent-working DevOps to join our collaborative team.\n\nThis position complements our MoodleCloud team in Australia by assisting with support, maintenance, deployments and upgrades of our MoodleCloud platform outside of Australian business hours.\n\nTo do this, you will need to have the capacity, experience and knowledge to understand our custom MoodleCloud stack and a variety of other Moodle community servers to a deep level quickly. Experience of large-scale hosting, and AWS services are expected.\n\nThis position expects a high level of problem solving, good communication, proven capacity for working independently, as well as flexibility to engage in occasional online synchronous team communication in out-of-business hours.\n\nYou will be working in an exciting new area of Moodle to develop Moodle services in new and innovative directions within our dedicated team.\n\nWhat you need for this position:\n\n\n* Relevant tertiary qualifications or demonstrably equivalent commercial experience, knowledge and understanding\n\n* Minimum of 3 years previous experience in a devops or developer/sysadmin role within Amazon Web Services\n\n* Understanding of contemporary Cloud architecture\n\n* Confidence to perform deployments, maintenance and upgrades independently\n\n* Ability to work with development teams to troubleshoot and debug production issues;\n\n* Proficiency in linux server administration (e.g. upgrades, patches)\n\n* Capacity to take direction from other team members and to work independently within an international, multi-timezone team context\n\n* Outstanding communication skills with both technical and non-technical staff from diverse backgrounds\n\n\n\n\nWhat you will gain:\n\n\n* competitive wages and benefits\n\n* a brilliant environment to work in\n\n* involvement in building a new Cloud service\n\n* experience working in an agile team\n\n* the knowledge you are helping education worldwide\n\n* further skills by working with high skilled peers and determining new solutions.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you’ll be doing:\n\n\n* monitoring and resolving Cloud issues and alerts\n\n* conducting upgrades, patches, maintenance improvements\n\n* evaluating system performance and contributing system improvements\n\n* progressing backend development tasks for new MoodleCloud services, and supporting some front end integrations\n\n* effectively and consistently communicating work tasks, progress, issues to the Perth-based team through the Moodle project and communication systems\n\n* providing Cloud and Moodle IT support when key sysadmin and MoodleCloud team members on leave\n\n\n\n\nWhat we especially like to see:\n\n\n* experience leading and working in a team in a development environment\n\n* previous contributions to open source projects\n\n* some experience in Cloud service maintenance and development.\n\n\n\n\nIf you are passionate, hard working, fit the above criteria, are awake when we are asleep and interested in applying for this position please send us your cover letter and resume and direct us to some examples of your work.\n\nPlease read the job description for this position before applying https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_xUWhpSKJ5SvuzEQpMvS9edLRGeSK4Qxoczk0gRHqq8/pub \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Amazon, Education, Cloud, 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