Remote Backend + DevOps + Operations + Python + SaaS Jobs

\nBasil Systems is a healthcare-focused start-up delivering a SaaS application that leverages product, market and regulatory data to support all types of players in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries.  Our goal is to help our customers deliver safe and innovative healthcare products to patients and consumers, while reducing the time to get to market.  After 14 months of stealth development, we soft launched in late December 2020 to a very positive market reception and customers.\n\nIn short, Basil is a funded, revenue generating, and growth-oriented company – and we are actively seeking talented engineers to build and deliver an extensive roadmap of amazing features.  We need a Sr. backend engineer excited by multifaceted data challenges, and with the ability to design, build, and deploy stable and scalable production software.\n\nSr. Backend Engineer\n\nWe are looking for a self-starter; you’ll spend your time building reliable backend services and solving complex data processing problems. We would like you to have:\n\n\n* 5+ years professional experience as backend or data engineer\n\n* Very strong skills experience with modern Python (3.8+), MongoDB (particularly 4.2+), and MySQL or MariaDB\n\n* Significant experience with AWS services, operations and architecture, especially with respect to data heavy applications\n\n* Spent time building and managing ETL pipelines\n\n* Familiarity with recent versions of Elasticsearch\n\n* Strong DevOps experience, with a commitment to engineering best practices \n\n\n\n\nNot all of these are required, but ideally you have experience with:\n\n\n* Typescript / ES (Node)\n\n* Golang\n\n* Docker & Kubernetes\n\n* Terraform\n\n* Solid understanding of modern security practices\n\n* CI/CD\n\n\n\n\nSome nice to haves\n\n\n* You have worked with, reconciled and normalized disparate data sets\n\n* Natural language processing (NLP) experience\n\n* Strong data modeling skills, and an eye for what the data means in a business and product context\n\n* Interest in machine learning, and experience building ML-driven or algorithmic data products\n\n* Some exposure to product analytics data pipelines and basic understanding of AB testing\n\n\n\n\nFinally\n\nWe are a distributed team headquartered in Boston, with an office in Nashville, TN.  However, our culture allows flexibility as to when, where and how you work best – and actively employ and support remote engineers.\n\nBenefits include:\n\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Health and vision\n\n* An attractive equity package \n\n\n\n\nBasil supports and encourages building a work environment that is diverse, inclusive, and safe for everyone -- and we welcome all applicants. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Backend, DevOps, Python, SaaS and Medical jobs that are similar:\n\n $75,000 — $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