Rainforest QA is an on-demand QA solution. It’s our mission to enable development teams to deliver bug-free software while moving at the speed of continuous delivery. We are truly a global team, allowing us to bring together the best and most diverse talent. Our commitment to the distributed team model and to our company values has earned us [multiple culture and workplace awards](https://www.rainforestqa.com/about) and helped us build a diverse team of individuals working toward the same goal: change the way QA is done. \n\nLearn more about Rainforest QA by visiting our [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainforestqa/), [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Rainforest-QA-EI_IE825703.11,24.htm), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/rainforestqa/), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/RainforestQA/), and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/rainforestqa) pages.\n\n\n**Senior Engineer (Backend)**\n\nAs a Senior Engineer at Rainforest QA you'll be part of an experienced and diverse team with members all over the world.\n\nWe were built as a distributed team from the beginning and we've committed to implementing tools and processes that allow for and support continuous and effective communication across the world.\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Work on our main app, which contains the majority of our business logic and is written in Ruby-on-Rails and backed by PostgreSQL and Redis\n* Work on numerous support services (including our work scheduler and VM management system - both of which manage hundreds of thousands of requests a day) written in a variety of languages (Elixir, Golang, Crystal, Node, Python) chosen because of their suitability to the problem the service is solving\n* Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer\n* Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features\n* Lead projects to implement those features\n* Help other team members to achieve their goals\n* Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems\n* Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs\n* Write unit and integration tests (using our own product!) to ship high quality software\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n* Extensive experience in Ruby (or equivalent dynamic language) and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem\n* Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (or equivalent framework) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem\n* Experience in writing and debugging SQL\n* Enthusiasm for building applications using tools like Ruby on Rails, Golang, Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, and Kubernetes - amongst others\n* Practical experience of working on a React codebase\n* Even though this position is mainly backend focused, we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make frontend or infrastructure changes when the situation calls for it\n* Professional experience in engineering SaaS products\n* Experience leading projects with teams\n* An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship\n* Excitement to learn\n* Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback\n* Happy to review code and have your code reviewed\n* Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)\n* Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders\n\nIdentify with our company values\n* No BS, No Ego: We are radically candid with each other in every interaction. This means a lack of politics, a lack of showboating, a lack of BS. This also means brevity, clarity of thought, and clarity of communication. We give and take feedback without ego, with the knowledge that we all are operating with good intent. No ego is the check system to balance no BS and keep it kind. No ad-hominem attacks.\n* 1% better every day: Continuous improvement is what motivates us. We design our product, our organization and our careers to be continually improving. Mistakes are only bad if they are repeated. Experiments are only wasted if they are not learned from.\n* Own the journey: We are all owners. We demand that of each other. The journey we own is threefold: our customers’ journey, our company’s journey and our personal journey. Our reason for existence is to nail our customer journey, so that we can scale our company’s success.\n\nHow we'll reward you\n* Flexible, remote work options \n* Competitive salary with equity.\n* A locally-adjusted weekly allowance for lunches.\n* A locally-adjusted monthly allowance for remote office supplies or personal development.\n* Unlimited paid-time off.\n* 3 offsites per year: every ~4 months we arrange an offsite for the whole company to get together so we can get to know our colleagues better and understand what we need to do. The location is ever changing, so you will get to see some new places!*\n* currently on-hold due to COVID-19 \n\n**United States Residents Only:**\n* 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage. 75% for dependents.\n* Voluntary 401k program.\n\nOUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION\n\nAt Rainforest QA we believe that diverse teams improve our business. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \n\nPlease mention the words **FOSSIL SITUATE BIOLOGY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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 $50,000 — $170,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\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