Remote Backend + Medical + MySQL + PostgreSQL Jobs

*Salary listed is a placeholder. Compensation depends on your skills, experience and cost of living.*\n\n**Our Mission**\n\nWe help pets and their humans to lead safer, healthier lives together.\n\n\n\nFounded in 2013 and backed by Techstars and T-Mobile, FitBark is a data-driven pet tech company on a mission to get pets and their owners healthy and safe together. We design pet wearables that help humans in 140+ countries to get actionable insights into their pet’s location, activity, quality of sleep, calorie expenditure, mobility, skin conditions, anxious behaviors and overall health.\n\n\n\nOur products include Bluetooth-enabled pet health monitors, as well as Wi-Fi and cellular-enabled GPS trackers. We develop all our wearables in house, including PCB design, firmware, data analytics, iOS, Android, web and smartwatch apps. Our platform has been adopted by 100+ vet schools and research institutions to validate new drugs, foods, procedures and medical treatments.\n\n\n\nWe are headquartered in Kansas City, MO in the heart of the KC Animal Health Corridor. We are a remote-friendly team with employees in the United States, Europe and Asia. We stand for a smarter breed of pet owners. We insist on beautiful design, insightful data, remarkable technology. If you believe you would thrive in a nimble, asynchronous, bureaucracy-free organization that is leading the charge in transforming animal and human health, we’d love to hear from you.\n\n\n\n**Your role at FitBark**\n\nOur engineering team is looking for a pet friendly, experienced, self-motivated senior engineer to help us architect and code to an efficient server backend for our next-generation pet health and GPS trackers. You will work with our team on new architecture that supports fun and insightful mobile and web apps with an emphasis on usability and performance.\n\nThis is a 100% remote position that requires at least 4 hours of overlap with our Kansas City team, based in US Central Time (CST/CDT). To interact with the team, you'll need a webcam and a stable internet connection. International candidates are welcome to apply.\n\n**How you'll improve the lives of pets and humans**\n\n* Architect, develop and deploy our data processing and analytics platform, which serves key data to our mobile, smartwatch and web apps, as well as universities, research partners, pharmaceutical companies, pet insurance companies and other commercial partners\n* Collaborate with our engineering team to extend new functionality to our apps\n* Identify performance bottlenecks, defining and implementing solutions to address them\n* Drive continuous improvement in overall system architecture including quality, performance and effectiveness of the backend infrastructure\n* Create and maintain technical documentation of private and public API\n* Report directly to our CTO\n\n**Essential skills**\n\n3+ years recent experience in:\n* Ruby on Rails\n* API design and implementation\n* MySQL or PostgreSQL scripting\n* AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, SQS, and ELB)\n* Design, coding and debugging\n\n**Desirable skills**\n\n* 3+ years experience building and deploying robust, scalable backends\n* Working knowledge of DBMS including MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server\n* Previous work analyzing large amounts of data (intelligence, statistics, data mining)\n* Working knowledge of machine learning techniques\n* BA, BS or MS in related fields of application\n\n**Bonus points for**\n\n* CI/CD experience\n* Working knowledge of Nginx and Passenger\n* Knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery, CSS\n* Front-end development experience \n\nPlease mention the words **HARSH ACTRESS SWAMP** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjE5LjI1MC40). 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 $30,000 — $60,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

**ABOUT US**\n\n\n\nAt Close.io we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals. We are hiring engineers to join our DevOps team to help take our platform to the next level by adding new features, providing better performance, and even higher reliability. We are a ~30 person entirely remote team (with ~13 engineers) that is profitable and building a product our customers love.\n\n\n\nOur backend tech stack currently consists of Python Flask/Gunicorn web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous processing tasks. Our data stores include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis. Our infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElastiCache as well as EC2 instances managed by Puppet. These EC2 instances run everything from our databases to our Kubernetes clusters.\n\n\n\n**ABOUT YOU**\n\n\n\nWe're looking for a full-time DevOps Engineering Manager / Team Lead to join our core team who has significant experience in building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure and backend services at scale.\n\nIn this Team Lead role, you will be doing *both* hands-on technical work yourself *and* managing/leading a small remote team (2-3 people) of exceptional Senior SRE/DevOps Engineers.\n\n\n\n**Come help us with projects like**\n\n\n\n* Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features\n\n* Scale our Elasticsearch and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth\n\n* Tune our MySQL and PostgreSQL databases\n\n* Improve our public Close.io API performance and resiliency\n\n* Tighten security across our infrastructure\n\n* Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs\n\n* Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer\n\n* Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure\n\n* Enhance our Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) logging stack\n\n\n\n**And leadership responsibilities like**\n\n\n\n* Being responsible for the happiness, well-fare, and productivity of the DevOps team; do regular 1:1s.\n\n* Leading the strategy, roadmap, and goals for the DevOps team\n\n* Coordinating with other engineers on current and upcoming infrastructure needs for Product and overall business goals\n\n* Having the primary responsibility for the stability, performance, and security of our infrastructure\n\n* Hiring/growing the team as needed, while keeping a high quality bar\n\n\n\n**You should**\n\n\n\n* Have 2+ years managing & leading an engineering team, including experience recruiting/hiring great engineers\n\n* Have a servant leadership attitude with the ability to foster a collaborative & positive energy work environment, especially when PagerDuty is calling\n\n* Have real world experience building scalable systems, working with large data sets, and troubleshooting various back-end challenges under pressure\n\n* Have significant experience with *nix, Python, bash, and Puppet or similar backend systems and frameworks\n\n* Experience working with large databases running on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Mongo\n\n* Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts\n\n* Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Puppet, or other scripting languages\n\n* Have experience with Docker containers and microservices\n\n* Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing\n\n* Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure\n\n\n\n**Why work with us?**\n\n\n\n* Our story and [team retreat video!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKjyXMz-q-Q&feature=youtu.be)\n\n* Stellar team reviews on [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Close-io-Reviews-E1155591.htm)\n\n* Work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy)\n\n* Enjoy face-to-face time with the whole team on all-expense paid retreats 2x year.\n\n* Experience building a truly successful SaaS company with a dedicated, small team where you can have a huge impact\n\n* Above market salary\n\n* Excellent medical & dental coverage, including 99% paid premiums and HSA option (**US residents)\n\n* Matching 401k (**US residents)\n\n\n\nInterested in DevOps but think this Team Lead role isn't the right fit? View our [SRE/DevOps Engineering role](https://jobs.lever.co/close.io/38d0c4ac-c3eb-47e9-a49e-4611f96eef8d) or all our other positions. \n\nPlease mention the words **THUMB PERSON ROUTE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjE5LjI1MC40). 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, Elasticsearch, Engineer, Redis, Executive, Python, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Medical and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n