#About Us\nAt [Close](https://close.com), we're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we're leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals(faster). Since our founding in 2013, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of 60+ high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.\n\nOur backend [tech stack](https://stackshare.io/close-crm/close) currently consists of Python Flask web apps with our [TaskTiger](https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger) scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS, MSK, RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our compute runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters. Our backend primarily serves a well-documented [public API](https://developer.close.com/) that our front-end JavaScript app consumes. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using AWS tools, Terraform, and Ansible.\n\nWe open source – using dozens of open source projects with contributions to many of them, and released some of our own like [ciso8601](https://github.com/closeio/ciso8601),[LimitLion](https://github.com/closeio/limitlion), [SocketShark](https://github.com/closeio/socketshark), [TaskTiger](https://github.com/closeio/tasktiger), and more at https://github.com/closeio\n\n#About You\nWe're looking for a full-time Site Reliability Engineer with a passion for databases(both SQL and NoSQL) to join our core team who has significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale.\n\n#Come help us with projects like- \n* Scale our Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth\n* Automate the maintenance and upgrades of our PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases\n* Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure\n* Tighten security across our infrastructure\n* Improve our [public API’s](https://developer.close.com/) performance and resiliency\n* Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features\n* Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs\n* Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer\n\n*Bonus: Are you a PostgreSQL or MongoDB expert? Please let us know! 🌟*\n\n#You should- \n* Have expert knowledge of database internals either PostgreSQL or MongoDB.\n* Demonstrable expertise in database performance.\n* Experience developing large-scale schema migration solutions.\n* Have significant experience with nix, Python, bash, Terraform, Ansible, or similar backend systems and frameworks\n* Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts\n* Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Terraform, Ansible, or other scripting languages\n* Have experience with Docker containers and containerized service\n* Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing\n* Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure\n* Be self-motivated and comfortable with responsibility\n* Have participated in and be comfortable with being part of an on-call rotation. (1 out of every 10 weeks)\n\n#Why Close?\n* [Culture video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbyGnLhtj0o&feature=youtu.be) :green_heart:\n* 100% remote company (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n* Choose between working 5 days/wk (standard full-time) or 4 days/wk @ 80% pay\n* [Annual team retreats](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q) :airplane:\n* Quarterly virtual summits\n* 5 weeks PTO + Winter Holiday Break\n* 2 additional PTO days every year with the company\n* 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years\n* Co-working stipend\n* Revenue Share (after 1 year)\n* Paid parental leave\n* Medical, Dental, Vision with HSA option (US residents)\n* 401k matching at 6% (US residents)\n* Dependent care FSA (US residents)\n* Contributor to [Stripe's climate](https://stripe.com/climate) initiative :earth_africa::heart:\n* [Our story and team](https://close.com/about/) :rocket:\n\nAt Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practice a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we don’t have strict policies, we have guidelines. Work/Life harmony is an important part of our business - we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you).\n\nWe come from 16 countries located in 5 of the 7 continents -- looking at you Antarctica and Australia ;-) ….. We’re a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Every year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another. These gatherings are an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our global community.\n\nOur team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 17 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is “Build a house you want to live in.” We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our people and help our customers become more successful. \n\nPlease mention the word **FLATTER** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4zNg==). 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 $100,000 — $200,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nAmericas, Europe, Africa

Prominent Edge is seeking highly talented and passionate Software Engineers to join our phenomenal software development team. We are a 100% remote company, so successful candidates must be highly self-motivated and capable of working independently. We do, however, share knowledge and talk across projects and topics on a daily basis. Since we are primarily a software engineering services company, you'll have exposure to a variety of technologies as opposed to having to work on one product or stack for too long. \n \nWe've been a 100% remote company before it was cool to be remote. We hire the best talent and always strive to exceed expectations. We leverage best-of-breed open source technologies to provide our customers with innovative user centric solutions. We invest in our company culture and make sure that we have fun. We also have exceptional benefits such as free quality healthcare for your entire family. If this sounds like the type of environment in which you would thrive, and you qualify for the position below, please apply -- we’d love to hear from you! Visit our careers page. (https://prominentedge.com/careers) to learn more.\n\n**Required Skills**\n* 5+ years experience as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, experienced working in an Agile development environment\n* Experience leading project teams through the full development life cycle, including requirements analysis, architecture, design, coding, testing, and delivery of solutions\n* Front-end development skills using modern JavaScript frameworks, such as ReactJS/React Native, Angular/AngularJS, or Vue\n* Backend development skills using server-side frameworks, such as NodeJS/Express, Flask, Django, or Spring\n* Database skills (e.g., Elasticsearch, Postgres/PostGIS, SQLite, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, etc.)\n* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and oral)\n* Highly self-motivated and results-oriented team player\n* Unwavering integrity and commitment to excellence\n* BS degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience\n\n**Additional Skills (“Nice to Have”)**\n* Open source geospatial technologies, such as Mapbox GL, GeoServer, etc.\n* Data visualization using technologies such as D3, Kibana, etc\n* Containerization and container orchestration, preferably using Docker and Kubernetes\n* Cloud computing, especially using AWS services such as S3, RDS, SQS, EMR, or Kinesis \n* Serverless approaches, preferably using AWS Lambda and Serverless Framework\n* DevOps and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), using technologies such as Jenkins or AWS CodeBuild\n* 3D game engine or 3D web experience, using technologies such as CesiumJS, WebGL, Unity, or Unreal\n* Advanced technologies (machine learning, computer vision, image processing, data mining, data analytics), using tools such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Apache Spark\n* Scrum Master\n* Active (or ability to obtain) Security Clearance\n* Advanced degree (MS or MBA)\n\n**Benefits**\n* Six weeks paid time off per year\n* Six percent 401(k) matching, vested immediately\n* Company-paid, low-deductible healthcare for the entire family\n* Straight-time overtime pay for all employees\n* Flex time (i.e., adjust your hours to fit your schedule)\n* Paid training, courses, and conferences\n* Laptop upgrades\n* Work from the comfort of your own home!\n* This organization participates in E-Verify \n\nPlease mention the words **BORING JELLY ICON** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4zNg==). 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 $100,000 — $180,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

**At Vizibl, we’re on a mission to help every company work better, together. We want to help all companies make a difference in the world by revolutionising the way they work together, empowering them to reach their full potential.**\n\nWe’re off to a great start too. Teams in some of the world’s largest enterprise companies are already collaborating with their suppliers through Vizibl and transforming the way they work to drive innovation together.\n\nWe welcome people from all backgrounds who seek the opportunity to help build a future where every company sees the benefit of working openly and collaboratively. If you have the passion, curiosity and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s help every company work better, together.\n\nVizibl is a growing SaaS platform used by the world’s largest organisations to help change the way they work. Our unique blend of Enterprise know-how coupled with our beautiful and usable products is one of the things our customers love about us.\n\nVizibl is looking for a talented Back End Engineer that’s passionate about building scalable, maintainable, performant backend services that put security first without compromising on our commitment to openness. As Vizibl grows, so do our ambitions for the future of our backend services, which is why this is a great opportunity for the right person to join a talented team to drive exciting new projects that will help change the way the world’s largest companies work with each other.\n\nThis person will work across our backend services to help maintain our REST api, develop solutions to new problems, be involved in the design and architecture of the platform and work collaboratively to support the growth of the platform. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated person that cares deeply about building excellent products. They don’t settle for OK and have a desire to integrate themselves deeply into the working of the business.\n\nAs this is a fully remote position we'll be looking for strong communication skills and the ability to motivate yourself and your team to work independently.\n\nIf you’re interested in building products that challenge the status quo in the enterprise space and you enjoy an abundance of autonomy with just the right amount of alignment then we’d love to hear from you.\n\n**Open to Everyone**\n\nVizibl is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\n\n**Working for Vizibl you will..**\n* Have a huge amount of autonomy\n* Work remotely\n* Work with cutting edge technologies\n* Manage and support applications in production on our Kubernetes cluster\n* Contribute to the design and architecture and development processes for a system used by the world’s largest enterprise organisations\n* Be involved in the planning and development of solutions\n* Be an ambassador for our product values\n* Work with an amazing team of people spread out across Europe\n* Contribute to a positive and empowering company culture\n* Help to build and improve a platform used by some of the worlds biggest organisations \n* Get support to grow and develop in your career\n\n**What You’ll Need**\n* Have experience working in a professional engineering team\n* 3+ years of Python experience (strong candidates with experience in another language may be considered)\n* Experience building production-ready REST APIs\n* Strong skills in information security architecture and security best practices\n* Understanding of data modelling and querying in (Postgres) SQL\n* Experience with Git\n* English fluency and excellent communication skills\n* Experience with TDD/BDD methodologies\n* A desire to learn and improve\n* Be organised and self motivated\n* Be a great team player. Our product squads work very closely together to build solutions \n\n**We’ll be impressed if**\n* DevOps experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud, etc\n* You have experience working in an agile team\n* You have experience working in a remote team\n* You have experience with queuing systems like Celery, Kafka\n* You have worked on products that have been subject to regular security audits\n* You write about back-end technologies\n* You have frontend Javascript experience\n* You have experience architecting complex systems\n* You have experience scaling web applications\n* You’re familiar with the enterprise project management space\n* You’ve integrated with large corporate IT environments before\n\n**Benefits**\n* Huge amounts of autonomy\n* Flexible working\n* Work from anywhere\n* Competitive compensation packages\n* Options in a growing SaaS business\n* Work with a great team\n* Great carrer development opportunities\n* Annual retreats \n\nPlease mention the words **DIRT INTEREST TRY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4zNg==). 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 $60,000 — $80,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nEurope

***Design your lifestyle as a top freelance developer, with the freedom to work however, wherever, on your terms. ***\n\nFreelance work is defining the careers of today’s developers in exciting new ways. If you’re passionate about working flexibly with leading Fortune 500 brands and innovative Silicon Valley startups, Toptal could be a great fit for your next career shift.\n\nToptal is an elite talent network for the world’s top 3% of developers, connecting the best and brightest freelancers with top organizations. Unlike a 9-to-5 job, you’ll choose your own schedule and work from anywhere. **Jobs come to you, so you won’t bid for projects against other developers in a race to the bottom. **Plus, Toptal takes care of all the overhead, empowering you to focus on successful engagements while getting paid on time, at the rate you decide, every time.\n\nAs a freelance developer, you could join an ever-expanding community of experts in over 120 countries, working remotely on the projects that meet your career ambitions.\n\nThat’s why the world’s top 3% of developers choose Toptal. Developers in our elite network share:\n\n* English language proficiency\n* 3+ years of professional experience as a software developer \n* Proficiency in at least one of the following languages is a strong advantage: **React, Ruby on Rails, Python, Swift, iOS, React Native, Azure, Flutter, Go, Unity, Node.js, Shopify or Salesforce**\n* Full-time availability is a strong advantage\n* Project management skills\n* Keen attention to detail\n\nCurious to know how much you could make? Check out our **[developer rate calculator](https://topt.al/Ddc5wb)**.\n\nIf you’re interested in becoming part of the Toptal network, take the next step by clicking apply and filling out the short form: **[https://topt.al/8JcdXd](https://topt.al/8JcdXd)**\n\n# Responsibilities\n* After passing our screening process, you will have access to our network of clients across the globe including leading Fortune 500s and innovative Silicon Valley start-ups.\n* You will have full flexibility to set your working hours per week and your rate. There are no mandatory hours.\n* You will have visibility into all projects published that fit your specialization. Our matching team is here to help you identify the projects that are the best fit for your skills and preferences.\n* As a client-oriented company, we empower you to fully focus on client objectives. We ensure that you always get paid on time for the hours you spend working with clients.\n# Requirements\n* You must have 3+ years of software development experience—preference given to candidates who have experience working for enterprise companies.\n* Proficiency in React, Ruby on Rails, Python, Swift, iOS, React Native, Azure, Flutter, Go, Unity, Node.js, Shopify or Salesforce is a strong advantage. Experience with additional frameworks and technologies is a bonus.\n* You consider multiple quality dimensions like user impact, failure tolerance, code maintenance, implementation time, security breaches, and performance.\n* You are genuinely interested in technology and love to try new things.\n* You are willing to help clients make important product and development decisions, share your knowledge with them, and help them achieve their objectives. You solve complex problems but also consider multiple solutions, weigh them, and decide on the best course of action.\n* You must be a world-class individual contributor to thrive at Toptal. You’re excited about working independently while keeping all relevant stakeholders continuously informed and up-to-speed with any challenges, set realistic expectations, and deliver the desirable quality. You thrive on providing and receiving honest but always constructive feedback.\n* Full-time availability is a strong advantage.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $50,000 — $300,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nVirtual Pricing Director is hiring a Back End Engineer - working in Node.js and other languages - to architect and implement its new Legal Tech back end and data platform.\n\nOur software empowers a wide audience within law firms to swiftly produce consistently high quality data-driven pricing proposals that profitably deliver on clients' expectations of pricing transparency and pricing certainty. We achieve this with a best in class data management and workflow platform, and a compelling focus on UI/UX.\n\nWe have a proven MVP, the best-recognised brand and strong demand. Now embarking on our third product release, you will design and build out an entirely new data structure and back end. You will be establishing data pipelines, representing data for BI and reporting, and building comprehensive back end capabilities. Your work will go on to manifest new workflow management capabilities, and to bring structure to unstructured data.\n\nThe domain entails data-intensive services where security, data integrity and uptime are key. This presents lots of interesting challenges as we build and integrate our technology. We offer considerable freedom in technology choice and approach. There are big plans and lots to accomplish.\n\nUpcoming projects\n\n\n* Exploring, innovating and creating IP\n\n* Designing and implementing new data structures and logic\n\n* New back end for modular BI and reporting products\n\n* New API and data integration pipelines\n\n* Designing operational AWS infrastructure\n\n* Automating quality, CI/CD, and shaping a DevOps culture\n\n* Supporting dialogue with customers\n\n* Exploring GraphQL\n\n* Upholding ISO27001\n\n* Preparing for explorations in machine learning\n\n\n\n\nWe're looking for\n\n\n* Someone ready to shape the back end and data solution\n\n* Strong grounding in Computer Science, Data Science or Mathematics, through formal study - or equivalent knowledge\n\n* Deep, technical, software design and coding skills - accrued in a modern web back end context\n\n* Technology agnostic and adept with Node.js and strong SQL\n\n* Ability to build modern microservice-based systems that scale\n\n* Ability to unpack complex requirements, to uphold security of sensitive data and to conform to best practices\n\n* A collaborative, adaptable, user-centered approach\n\n* You may also bring - or like to gain - interests around knowledge management, data science, NLP or machine learning\n\n* Someone considering remote, Senior or Lead level, back end jobs such as: Back End Engineer | Back End Developer | Microservices Developer | Lead Software Engineer | Node.js Developer | Node.js Engineer etc.\n\n\n\n\nAnticipated ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence\n\nNode.js | optionally some Python, Go, Rust or similar | PostgreSQL | GraphQL | AWS | ML | TDD | Agile\n\nSalary and benefits\n\n\n* £60,000 - £90,000+ we're keeping an open mind\n\n* Share scheme for founding team members (once proven value to the business)\n\n* 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and a day for your birthday\n\n* Family-friendly and flexible culture - tell us what you need\n\n* Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications\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, Python, Node, Data Science, Golang, Engineer, Backend, DevOps, Scheme, API, Senior and Legal 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

\nOpportunity\n\nSecurityScorecard is hiring a DevOps Engineer to bridge the gap between our global development and operational teams who is motivated to help continue automating and scaling our infrastructure. The DevOps 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\nRegions: North America (GMT-7.00) Mountain time - (GMT-4.00) Atlantic time\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\nRequirements\n\n\n* 3+ years of DevOps and/or Operations experience in a Linux based environment\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* Strong scripting abilities (bash/python)\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 was 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\nTooling We Use\n\n\n* Data definition, format and interfaces\n\n\n\n* Definitions - Protobuf V3\n\n* Normalize from - JSON / XML / CSV\n\n* Normalize to - Protobuf / ORC\n\n* Interfaces - REST API(s) and object store buckets\n\n\n\n* Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services\n\n* Databases: Postgresql, PrestoDB\n\n* Cache: Redis, Varnish\n\n* Languages: Python / C++14 / Scala / Golang / Javascript / Ruby / Java\n\n* Job Orchestration - HTCondor / Apache Airflow / Rundeck\n\n* Analytics - Spark \n\n* Storage: NFS/EFS, AWS S3, HDFS\n\n* Computation - Docker Containers / VMs / Metal / EMR\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, InfoSec, Senior, Engineer, JavaScript, Amazon, Python, Scala, Ruby, SaaS, Golang, 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

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps. With Blockstack, you own your data and maintain your privacy, security and freedom. Blockstack is open source project and a public benefit corporation. [Learn more](https://blockstack.org).\n\nBlockstack is looking for a passionate and collaborative DevOps Engineer to help develop rigorous testing suites to guarantee the safety of a soon-to-be launched cryptocurrency and blockchain. This person will work on implementing securely tested solutions, and interface with our dev team and back end engineers on product builds and feature implementation. This role will span testing and security, software development and upgrades, improvements to our Developer API, and community support. \n\nOur engineering team builds software using JavaScript/ES6, React, Redux, Swift, and Objective-C on the frontend and Python, bash, and Bitcoin Core on the backend.\n\nThings You'll Work On:\n- Manage distribution of Blockstack software upgrades for developers and everyday users\n- Keep our users happy by managing Blockstack browser availability, scalability, and performance \n- Build tools for faster deployment schedules \n- Instate monitoring protocols and fail-over measures \n- Implement continuous testing practices to ensure the security and performance goals of Blockstack are met across backend services, blockchain infrastructure, and our frontend user clients\n- Deliver on rapid implementation schedules (without compromising on smart development goals and principles) to build web functionality that is functional, fast, and scalable\n\nQualifications\nYou are have worked in a large, highly available systems environment before, as well as an agile start-up. You are familiar with strategizing and improving for system security and availability. Your strengths lie in backend development, but can work across the full-stack when needed. \n\nKPIs\n- Increased uptime of Blockstack software \n- Delivery of long term, securely tested software \n- Work to improve our failure processes, alerting, and emergency response times \n- Support our community developers to increase number and usability of Blockstack Apps \n\nSkills \n- Experience developing with python and bash\n- Comfort across operating systems, with a strong Linux background\n- Experience across the CI/CD pipeline, with an understanding of best practices for automated testing and deployment\n- Ability to build and maintain highly available infrastructure\n- Competency in monitoring and quick response time in the event of an emergency\n- Security background with strength in automated testing and infrastructure\n- Experience deploying Bitcoin infrastructure with bitcoin core or utxo providers\n\nQualities + Traits \n- Passion for building the new internet for decentralized apps \n- Strong problem solving skills, ability to think fast and thoroughly\n- Development mindset with strong security background\n- Experience in a rapidly scaling start-up\n- Proactive solution provider\n- Excellent communication \n\nPlease mention the words **PAGE MOM ACHIEVE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4zNg==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, InfoSec, Cloud, Python, Engineer, Linux, Testing and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n

\nDevOps Engineer– Emphasis on Linux / Docker / Node.js / Elasticsearch / MongoDB\nThe Opportunity:\nWe're looking for an experienced DevOps engineer based in Phoenix, AZ, Virginia Beach, VA or the Washington, DC metro area, however remote (tele) workers will be considered for the position also if you have excellent communication skills and are willing to travel to one of the above locations several times per year.\nThe Day to Day:\n* Provide operational support and automation tools to application developers \n* Bridge the gap between development and operations to ensure successful delivery of projects \n* Participate as a member of the application development team \n* Build back-end frameworks that are maintainable, flexible and scaleable\n* Operate and scale the application back-end including the database clusters \n* Anticipate tomorrow's problems by understanding what users are trying to accomplish today \n\n\nRequirements:\n* DevOps experience with Linux or FreeBSD \n* Experience with Linux Containers and Docker \n* Configuration management experience, Salt Stack preferred \n* Exposure to the deployment and operations of node.js applications \n* Experience operating and optimizing Elasticsearch at large scale\n* Operational experience with Hadoop, MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or other distributed big data systems \n* Experience with any of JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Perl and/or shell scripting \n* Comfort with compute clusters and many terabytes of data \n* US Citizenship / Work Authorization\n\n\nBonus Points:\n* Development experience with Node.js or other HTTP backend tools\n* Mac OS X familiarity \n* BS or MS in a technology or scientific field of study\n* High energy level and pleasant, positive attitude!\n* Evidence of working well within a diverse team\n\n\nCompensation:\n* Salary commensurate with experience, generally higher than competitive industries\n* Comprehensive benefits package\n* Opportunities for advancement and a clear career path\n\n\nAbout Us:\nWe conduct advanced technical research and develop innovative software and systems that help meet network security and reliability challenges for organizations world-wide.  You can read more at our web site.  \nCareer Opportunities:\nWe have many other openings available. For a complete listing, visit jobs.vostrom.com \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, JavaScript, InfoSec, Elasticsearch, Java, Perl, Python, Node, Ruby, Admin, Excel, Engineer, Sys Admin, Cassandra, Backend, Design, Docker, Digital Nomad, Travel and Linux 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