Do you enjoy designing, building, tuning, monitoring, and maintaining SaaS, web, and internal infrastructures and all of its pieces? Do words like resilient, secure, fault-tolerant, high availability, and scalable translate into action for you? Do you love tuning the performance of databases, websites, and infrastructures? Do you think proactively to prevent issues from happening? Do you have a passion for building tools and pipelines that eases pain points and makes teams more productive? \n\nIf you answered yes to these questions, we are sure this position will sound super exciting to you. 🤩\n\nWe are looking for a friendly person in love with systems, IT, DevOps, SRE, DBRE, and sysadmin to join our team. 🚀\n\nKeep reading for more details! 📝\n# Become Our New DevOps Systems Engineer!\nIn your job as a DevOps Systems Engineer, your mission will be to make our SaaS infrastructure serve millions of requests per day and put technology to work for us.\n\n**WP Media** is the French company behind successful WordPress plugins like WP Rocket and Imagify. WP Rocket is the premium **caching plugin for WordPress** used by +1,000,000 websites and +120,000 customers worldwide. Our plugin makes sites go at the speed of light in just a few clicks. Imagify is our **free image optimization service**, including a free WordPress plugin: we have already optimized more than 2,000,000,000 images! 😲\n\nYou will **join our Engineering Group**, which is spread across Canada, Egypt, France, Kenya, Nicaragua, Portugal, Romania, and U.S. To facilitate this international teamwork, we would prefer you to live in a **time zone between GMT+3 to GMT-5**. We are so curious to know which new country will be added to our distributed team map! 🌍\n# What You Will Be Doing:\nHere is a list describing the tasks involved in this position (*do you happen to like making lists? So do we!*): \n\n* Systems Engineering\n * Prevent incidents from ever happening.\n * Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and not on outages.\n * Performance tuning, back-up and recovery, monitoring, troubleshooting, installations, patches and upgrades, security, and automation\n * Design, build, and maintain infrastructure pieces that are resilient, secure, fault-tolerant, and scale to server hundred of thousands of concurrent users and millions of requests per day.\n * Debug and resolve production issues across services and levels of the stack.\n * Plan the growth of our infrastructure.\n* DevOps:\n * Make our continuous integration and deployment processes to make it as boring as possible.\n * Reduce barriers for engineers to deploy and optimize systems\n * Evaluate, introduce, and operationalize container and orchestration tools\n* Document every action so your findings turn into repeatable actions–and then into automation.\n\nDuring this journey, you will get **cross-training and growth opportunities** by working with your fellow Dev teammates on internal projects.\n# What Do You Need To Excel at This Job: \n**Being Yourself.**\nThe WP Media team is diverse and composed of people from all over the world. **Respect**, **collaboration**, and **inclusivity** are some of our core values (*more on this below*). Every day of work is an exciting opportunity to get in touch with fantastic people who will enrich your cultural and professional background.\n\n**Proficient knowledge of English.**\nEmpathetic and collaborative communication is key: you are comfortable writing, speaking, and listening in English with technical and non-technical teammates. \n\n**Passion and humbleness.**\nYou are a skilled, passionate, and humble developer who is friendly, collaborative, and supportive. Solving problems and building solutions that help people are the values that make your work special and rewarding.\n\n**Consider how your work impacts others.**\nYour code is a pleasure to use, read, and understand. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than when you found them. You value personal growth and constructive feedback. People feel good around you because you love sharing what you know while continuously improving yourself, remaining thoughtful and flexible in your approach. \n\n**Proven DevOps, Systems Engineering, and SaaS experience.**\nYou have proven experience in DevOps as a Systems Engineer and/or Site Reliability Engineer working on SaaS platforms.\n\n**More concretely:**\n* Work comfortably within GMT+2 to GMT-5 time zone range.\n* Be a strong written and spoken English communicator. Why? Though we are a global company, English is our company's working language. We require strong communication to ensure everyone can understand one another and collaborate well together.\n* Think about systems in big picture and granular details → edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations, and impacts\n* Strong automation experience with at least one configuration/deployment management system, such as Ansible (what we use), Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet.\n* Proficient Linux administration\n* Deep understanding of and hands-on experience with networking including firewalls, load balancers, proxy servers, routing, TCP/IP, DNS, etc.\n* Strong experience with containers and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes\n* Understanding of security and complementary technologies e.g. VPN, LDAP, SSL etc\n* Hands-on experience managing NGINX, MySQL, and PostgreSQL\n* Proficient with git and git workflows\n* Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment\n* Strong scripting skills with Bash and Python\n* Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting system such as Grafana (what we use)\n* Highly collaborative\n* Strong written and verbal communicate\n* Document all the things so you don't need to learn the same thing twice.\n\n*Do you want to know a few other things we appreciate about our candidates? Don’t worry if you don’t have experience in any of these areas. We’ll teach you.*\n\n* **Previous remote job experience.**\nSlack will be your virtual office, where all the life of the company takes place.\n\n* **The involvement in the engineering community.**\nWe support our teammates to attend and/or speak at conferences, and to volunteer within the community.\n\n* **Love for cats or Corgis!** 😸🐶\nWhat would our working days be without our four-legged friends?\n# What Else You Should Know About Our Company: WP Media\n\nFounded in 2014 in the beautiful Lyon, France, [WP Media](http://wp-media.me/) is an equal opportunity employer with a distributed team of +35 teammates living around the world. \n\n**Do We Share the Same Values?**\n\n**Mutual respect**, **collaboration**, and **inclusivity**. \nThese are the fundamental values that support our life as a team. \n\n**Healthy balance between work and private life.**\nWe encourage our employees to enjoy their family and their hobbies with flexible working hours and *minimum* vacation policy (you should take a minimum of 5 weeks per year: really, we don’t count them!). \n\n\n\n**We care about the work you do, not about the hours you sit at your desk.**\nYou can organize your working day with flexible working hours. There are no time cards to stamp, just customers to make happy and friendly teammates to work with!\n\n**Transparent culture.**\nWe have a [public salary grid](https://wp-rocket.me/blog/our-salary-grid-is-now-public/). Once a year, when the company does well, we **share our profits** with the team in the form of bonuses.\n\n**We like to see each other in person whenever possible.**\nEvery year, we organize a trip with the whole team and **spend a week of coworking and fun activities together**.\n\nTo give you an idea, so far we have traveled to Spain, Portugal, and Mexico:\n\n\n \n \n\n \nNow that we've told you so much about us, it's your turn. 😉\n \nLet us know why you would like to become our **DevOps Systems Engineer** and why you think you are the person we are looking for.\n \nWe can’t wait to receive your application! 🌟\n \n\nPlease mention the words **ELDER CARBON BOMB** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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, Engineer, English, Git, Excel, SaaS and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
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*Only candidates residing inside of the United States will be considered for this role*\n\nAbout VividCortex\n\nVividCortex provides deep database performance monitoring to drive speed, efficiency and savings. Our cloud-based SaaS platform offers full visibility into major open source databases – MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis – at any scale without overhead. By giving entire engineering teams the ability to monitor database workload and query behavior, VividCortex empowers them to improve application speed, efficiency, and up-time.\n\nFounded in 2012, and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area with remote teams in the US and abroad, our company’s growth continues to accelerate (#673 Inc. 5000). Hundreds of industry leaders like DraftKings, Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, Shopify, and Yelp rely on VividCortex. \n\nWe know our team is our greatest strength so we support our people with excellent benefits including 401k, professional development assistance, flexible paid leave (vacation, parental, sick, etc.), and a health/wellness benefit. We enjoy getting together and giving back to the community through volunteer services. We believe in offering every employee the tools and opportunity to impact the business in a positive way. We care about inclusiveness and working with people who help us learn and grow.\n\nAbout the Role\n\nVividCortex is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to architect and build our next-generation internal data platform for large scale data processing. You are at the intersection of data, engineering, and product, and run the strategy and tactics of how we store and process massive amounts of performance metrics and other data we measure from our customers' database servers.\n\nOur platform is written in Go and hosted on the AWS cloud. It uses Kafka, Redis, and MySQL for data storage and analysis. We are a DevOps organization building a 12-factor microservices application; we practice small, fast cycles of rapid improvement and full exposure to the entire infrastructure, but we don't take anything to extremes.\n\nThe position offers excellent benefits, a competitive base salary, and the opportunity for equity. Diversity is important to us, and we welcome and encourage applicants from all walks of life and all backgrounds.\n\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n\n\n* Work with others to define, and propose for approval, a modern data platform design strategy and matching architecture and technology choices to support it, with the goals of providing a highly scalable, economical, observable, and operable data platform for storing and processing very large amounts of data within tight performance tolerances.\n\n* Perform high-level strategy and hands-on infrastructure development for the VividCortex data platform, developing and deploying new data management services both in our existing data center infrastructure, and in AWS.\n\n* Collaborate with engineering management to drive data systems design, deployment strategies, scalability, infrastructure efficiency, monitoring, and security.\n\n* Discover, define, document, and design scalable backend storage and robust data pipelines for different types of data streams.\n\n* Write code, tests, and deployment manifests and artifacts, using CircleCI, Git and GitHub, pull requests, issues, etc. Collaborate with other engineers on code review and approval.\n\n* Measure and improve the code and system performance and availability as it runs in production.\n\n* Support product management in prioritizing and coordinating work on changes to our data platform, and serve as a lead on  user-focused technical requirements and analysis of the platform.\n\n* Help provide customer support, and you'll pitch in with other departments, such as Sales, as needed.\n\n* Rotate through on-call duty.\n\n* Understand and enact our security posture and practices.\n\n* Continually seek to understand and improve performance, reliability, resilience, scalability, and automation. Our goal is that systems should scale linearly with our customer growth, and the effort of maintaining the systems should scale sub-linearly.\n\n* Contribute to a culture of blameless learning, responsibility, and accountability.\n\n* Manage your workload, collaborating and working independently as needed, keeping management appropriately informed of progress and issues.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n\n\n\n* Experience building systems for both structured and unstructured data.\n\n* AWS infrastructure development experience.\n\n* Mastery of relational database technologies such as MySQL.\n\n* You are collaborative, self-motivated, and experienced in the general development, deployment, and operation of modern API-powered web applications using continuous delivery and Git in a Unix/Linux environment.\n\n* Experience and knowledge programming in Golang or Java\n\n* You have experience resolving highly complex data infrastructure design and maintenance issues, with at least 4 years of data-focused design and development experience.\n\n* You are hungry for more accountability and ownership, and for your work to matter to users.\n\n* You’re curious with a measured excitement about new technologies.\n\n* SaaS multitenant application experience.\n\n* Ability to understand and translate customer needs into leading-edge technology.\n\n* Experience with Linux system administration and enterprise security.\n\n* A Bachelor’s degree in computer science, another engineering discipline, or equivalent experience.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote to Agencies and Recruiters: VividCortex does not engage with unsolicited contact from agencies or recruiters.  Unsolicited resumes and leads are property of VividCortex and VividCortex explicitly denies that any information sent to VividCortex can be construed as consideration. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, DevOps, Amazon, Git, SaaS, Golang, 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

\n**This position is a remote role only available to US citizens or permanent residents who are authorized to work without sponsorship currently residing in the United States of America** About VividCortex VividCortex provides deep database performance monitoring to drive speed, efficiency and savings. Our cloud-based SaaS platform offers full visibility into major open source databases – MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis – at any scale without overhead. By giving entire engineering teams the ability to monitor database workload and query behavior, VividCortex empowers them to improve application speed, efficiency, and up-time. Founded in 2012, and headquartered in the Washington, DC metro area with remote teams in the US and abroad, our company’s growth continues to accelerate (#673 Inc. 5000). Hundreds of industry leaders like DraftKings, Etsy, GitHub, SendGrid, Shopify, and Yelp rely on VividCortex.  We know our team is our greatest strength so we support our people with excellent benefits including 401k, professional development assistance, flexible paid leave (vacation, parental, sick, etc.), and a health/wellness benefit. We enjoy getting together and giving back to the community through volunteer services. We believe in offering every employee the tools and opportunity to impact the business in a positive way. We care about inclusiveness and working with people who help us learn and grow. About The Role VividCortex is looking for a site reliability engineers to help us operate, troubleshoot, and improve the platform that ingests, secures, and analyzes the massive amounts of performance and other data we measure from our customers' database servers. Our platform is written in Go and hosted on the AWS cloud. It uses Kafka, Redis, and MySQL for data storage and analysis. We are a DevOps organization building a 12-factor microservices application; we practice small, fast cycles of rapid improvement and full exposure to the entire infrastructure, but we don't take anything to extremes.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n\n\n* Make our platform operate and scale in a lights-out fashion, without manual intervention. Plan and build for resilience at 10x scale. Our goal is that systems should scale linearly with our customer growth, and the effort of maintaining the systems should scale sub-linearly.\n\n* Define, code, and execute "infrastructure as code" definitions of our systems and how they operate and interconnect.\n\n* Support the definition of the next generation of our platform.\n\n* Analyze and eliminate actual and potential threats to security, availability, and performance.\n\n* Deploy, observe, and operate the systems you build. Use ChatOps, VividCortex, Ansible, the Unix command line, and other tools to do this.\n\n* Help provide customer support and rotate through on-call duty.\n\n* Continually seek to understand and improve our security posture and practices; security is part of everyone's job here.\n\n* Contribute to a culture of blameless learning, responsibility, and accountability.\n\n* Collaborate as needed; work independently when needed. You must be self-managing. You must be present and online during your team's normal working hours, and attend and participate in team calls and the like.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n\n\n\n* You are collaborative and experienced in general development, deployment, and operation of modern API-powered web applications using continuous delivery and Git in a Unix/Linux environment.\n\n* Experience with a configuration management system such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt.\n\n* Experience with immutable infrastructure and 12-factor architecture is helpful.\n\n* SaaS multitenant experience is a bonus.\n\n* Experience with enterprise security is a plus.\n\n* Experience with Go, Kafka, Redis, and MySQL is very beneficial. Experience with other storage technologies such as Cassandra, Hadoop, and the like are also helpful.\n\n* Bash scripting experience is strongly desirable.\n\n* Experience with project management is helpful.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNote to Agencies and Recruiters: VividCortex has a strict company policy against engaging with unsolicited contact from agencies or recruiters.  Unsolicited resumes and leads are property of VividCortex and VividCortex explicitly denies that any information sent to VividCortex can be construed as consideration. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Admin, Engineer, Sys Admin, DevOps, Amazon, Git and SaaS 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