Our Senior Staff Engineer works with our Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate is a self-starter that has deep technical expertise in their domain. Position Responsibilities As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will: Provide technical leadership to multiple areas and provide technical and thought leadership to the enterprise Collaborate across team members and across the tech organization to solve our toughest problems Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions Utilize programming languages like C#, Java, Python or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services Be a role model and mentor, helping to coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community. Influence and educate executives Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, and demonstrate adaptability and sponsoring continuous learning Qualifications Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production Extensive experience in leading and building full-stack application and service development, with a strong focus on SAAS products / platforms. Proven expertise in designing and developing microservices using C#, gRPC, Python, Django, Kafka, and Apache Spark, with a deep understanding of both API and event-driven architectures. Proven experience designing and delivering highly-resilient event-driven and messaging based solutions at scale with minimal latency. Deep hands-on experience in building complex SAAS systems in large scale business focused systems, with great knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes Fluency and Specialization with at least two modern OOP languages such as C#, Java, C++, or Python including object-oriented design Great understanding of open-source databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. And strong foundation with No-SQL databases like Cosmos, Cassandra. Apache Trino etc. In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication) Experience with Micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems Experience in implementing security protocols across services and products: Understanding of Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth Fluency in DevOps Concepts, Cloud Architecture, and Azure DevOps Operational Framework Experience in leveraging PowerShell scripting Experience in existing Operational Portals such as Azure Portal Experience with application monitoring tools and performance assessments Experience in Azure Network (Subscription, Security zoning, etc.) Experience 10+ years full-stack development experience (C#/Java/Python/GO), with expertise in client-side and server-side frameworks. 8+ years of experience with architecture and design 6+ years of experience in open-source frameworks 4+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience Annual Salary $115,000.00 - $260,000.00 The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations. At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Benefits: As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including: Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period** Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave 401(k) Plan Tuition Reimbursement Paid Training and Licensures *Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service. **Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect. The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants. For more than 75 years, GEICO has stood out from the rest of the insurance industry! We are one of the nation's largest and fastest-growing auto insurers thanks to our low rates, outstanding service and clever marketing. We're an industry leader employing thousands of dedicated and hard-working associates. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, we offer associates training and career advancement in a financially stable and rewarding workplace. Opportunities for Students & Grads Learn more about GEICO Learn more about GEICO Diversity and Inclusion Learn more about GEICO Benefits \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, SaaS, Python, Docker, DevOps, Education, Cloud, API, Senior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $47,500 — $97,500/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\n#Location\nMD Chevy Chase (Office) - JPS

\nAbout BLEN\nBLENers are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. For over 20 years, we've been helping government agencies and businesses transform their digital experience. We bring fresh perspectives to every project, from modernizing legacy systems to building cloud-native applications to experimenting with technology that’s just around the corner. We value building long and enduring partnerships to solve complex challenges by putting humans at the center of all the experiences. Our team thrives on turning tricky problems into solutions that are practical, accessible and performant.\n\n\nAbout this position\nAs a Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack at BLEN, you will take on a highly strategic role in designing, architecting, and developing scalable, robust digital solutions. This role demands a combination of deep technical expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies and the ability to collaborate closely with tech leads and sometimes take on tech lead responsibilities. You will be expected to think strategically, mentor team members, and deliver high-impact solutions while embracing ownership and accountability. In addition, this position requires a strong background in cloud services, system architecture, AI toolings, and an eagerness to innovate by building prototypes and transforming proof of concepts into production-ready features\n\n\n\nWhat we would like from you\n* Technical Leadership and Strategy\n* Collaborate closely with the tech lead, taking responsibility for the system's architecture and development strategy\n* Step in as the acting Tech Lead when required, making key technical decisions that ensure alignment with overall product and business goals\n* Design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Work on building prototypes and proof of concepts that later become major production features\n\n\n\n* Software Development and Problem-Solving\n* Leverage extensive full-stack development experience to lead high-complexity, outcome-driven projects\n* Proactively diagnose and solve architectural and technical issues, driving quality improvements in existing systems\n* Work hands-on with modern tech stacks, including advanced usage of cloud platforms, ensuring scalable system designs\n* Actively contribute to the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions and applications\n\n\n\n* Mentorship and Team Development\n* Mentor and support junior engineers, focusing on transferring skills in system design, cloud services, and AI technologies\n* Provide technical guidance across teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation\n* Engage in technical interviews, assessing candidates' skills and cultural fit\n\n\n\n* Communication and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Present design documents, architecture diagrams, and technical solutions to clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams\n* Communicate technical strategies and developments effectively across the team and external partners\n\n\n\n* Process Improvement and Innovation\n* Drive improvements in software development processes and practices, with a focus on high performance and scalability\n* Champion best practices in system design, architecture, cloud services, and AI development\n* Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI and cloud computing, applying this knowledge to drive innovation in the organization\n\n\n\nBasic qualifications\n* Essential Requirements\n* 10+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Extensive experience with full stack development using Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java or Ruby on Rails\n* Hands-on experience with Python and AI toolings, including familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and other modern AI frameworks\n* Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, ensuring systems are scalable and maintainable in a cloud-native environment\n* Experience working with both relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases like Firestore, MongoDB, ensuring effective database design, optimization, and scalability\n* Hands-on experience integrating external APIs and third-party services into applications\n* Strong cloud services management and configuration skills with AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging these platforms for high availability, scalability, and security\n* Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience managing large, complex codebases\n* Robust problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance\n* \n\n* Preferred Skills and Experience\n* Prior experience leading engineering teams or acting as a Tech Lead\n* Experience building AI applications and their underlying infrastructure\n* Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices\n* Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance\n\n\n\nRequirement\n* Must be a US Citizen or legal resident and able to work domestically\n* Must be located in the United States\n* Must be able to attain low-level security clearance\n\n\n\nPerks\n* Work from anywhere.\n* Competitive pay.\n* A contribution to your health benefit.\n* The chance to work on high-visibility projects and make a significant impact.\n\n\n\nGet to know us\n* We are a small, creative and highly technical team.\n* Our heroes are the scrappy folks that dare to dream and do great things. We love people that care more about doing the right thing than taking a shortcut.\n* We believe in finishing projects and floor our clients by how much we cared about their project.\n* We believe in integrity and because we're small, we are very selective of our partners and clients.\n* We do not use phrases like 'human resource' because you are NOT a resource. You are a team member and we will treat you like one.\n\n\n\nWhat you should expect from us\n* We will treat you fairly.\n* We give you space to grow both personally and professionally.\n* We will hear your ideas even when we disagree -- especially when we disagree.\n* We will be equitable with our success and be honest with our challenges.\n* We will always tell you the truth. Even when the truth is difficult.\n\n\n\nBLEN's hiring process\n* Resume Review: Our team evaluates your resume and online profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, etc.) to assess qualification fit.\n* Role-Specific Assessment (depending on role, due in 24 - 48 hours): Complete a take-home assignment or live coding session to demonstrate technical skills. For this role, this will be the assessment: https://github.com/blencorp/blen-fullstack-engineer-take-home\n* Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins): Dive deeper into your experience and the role with the hiring manager.\n* Virtual Interviews (2 rounds, 30-45 min each): Technical and competency-based interviews aligned with Blen's values, conducted via Google Meet.\n* Decision & Offer: Post-interview, the hiring team decides. If selected, your recruiter will extend an offer and assist with logistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n$135,000 - $170,000 a yearThe salary range represents the compensation we expect to offer candidates who can perform the core responsibilities with minimal additional training. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skill set, level of experience, and scope of responsibility. Our recruitment team is available to discuss your specific salary requirements and to provide more information about how we determine compensation. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and encourage open dialogue about our compensation structure throughout the application process. We look forward to learning more about your qualifications and how they align with our framework.\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Ruby and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $95,000/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\n#Location\nWashington, DC

\nMemora Health works with leading healthcare organizations to make complex care journeys simple for patients and clinicians so that care is more accessible, actionable, and always-on. Our team is rapidly growing as we expand our programs to reach more health systems and patients, and we are excited to bring on a Senior Data Engineer. \n\nIn this role, you will have the responsibility of driving the architecture, design and development of our data warehouse and analytics solutions, alongside APIs that allow other internal teams to interact with our data. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate effectively with Memora’s Product Management, Engineering, QA, TechOps and business stakeholders.\n\nThis role will work closely with the cross-functional teams to understand customer pain points and identify, prioritize, and implement maintainable solutions. Ideal candidates will be driven not only by the problem we are solving but also by the innovative approach and technology that we are applying to healthcare - looking to make a significant impact on healthcare delivery. We’re looking for someone with exceptional curiosity and enthusiasm for solving hard problems.\n\n Primary Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Collaborate with Technical Lead, fellow engineers, Product Managers, QA, and TechOps to develop, test, secure, iterate, and scale complex data infrastructure, data models, data pipelines, APIs and application backend functionality.\n\n* Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand customer pain points and identify, prioritize, and implement maintainable solutions\n\n* Promote product development best practices, supportability, and code quality, both through leading by example and through mentoring other software engineers\n\n* Manage and pare back technical debts and escalate to Technical Lead and Engineering Manager as needed\n\n* Establish best practices designing, building and maintaining data models.\n\n* Design and develop data models and transformation layers to support reporting, analytics and AI/ML capabilities.\n\n* Develop and maintain solutions to enable self-serve reporting and analytics.\n\n* Build robust, performant ETL/ELT data pipelines.\n\n* Develop data quality monitoring solutions to increase data quality standards and metrics accuracy.\n\n\n\n\nQualifications (Required):\n\n\n* 3+ years experience in shipping, maintaining, and supporting enterprise-grade software products\n\n* 3+ years of data warehousing / analytics engineering\n\n* 3+ years of data modeling experience\n\n* Disciplined in writing readable, testable, and supportable code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js (Express), Python (Flask, Django, or FastAPI), or Java.\n\n* Expertise writing, and consuming RESTful APIs\n\n* Experience with relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.)\n\n* Experience with Data Warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.)\n\n* Experience with analytical and reporting tools, such as Looker or Tableau\n\n* Inclination toward test-driven development and test automation\n\n* Experience with scrum methodology\n\n* Excels in mentoring junior engineers\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields or related work experience\n\n\n\n\nQualifications (Bonus):\n\n\n* Understanding of DevOps practices and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, CI / CD, test coverage and automation, branch and release management)\n\n* Experience with security tooling in SDLC and Security by Design principles\n\n* Experience with observability and APM tooling (Sumo Logic, Splunk, Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, etc.)\n\n* Experience with an integration framework (Mirth Connect, Mule ESB, Apache Nifi, Boomi, etc..)\n\n* Experience with healthcare data interoperability frameworks (FHIR, HL7, CCDA, etc.)\n\n* Experience with healthcare data sources (EHRs, Claims, etc.)\n\n* Experience working at a startup\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat You Get:\n\n\n* An opportunity to work on a rapidly scaling care delivery platform, engaging thousands of patients and care team members and growing 2-3x annually\n\n* Enter a highly collaborative environment and work on the fun challenges of scaling a high-growth startup\n\n* Work alongside world-class clinical, operational, and technical teams to build and scale Memora\n\n* Shape how leading health systems and plans think about modernizing the care delivery experience for their patients and care teams\n\n* Improve the way care is delivered for hundreds of thousands of patients\n\n* Gain deep expertise about healthcare transformation and direct customer exposure with the country’s most innovative health systems and plans\n\n* Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company\n\n* Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, flexible work hours, paid maternity/paternity leave, bi-annual retreats, Macbook, and a 401(k) plan\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 Design, Python, DevOps, NoSQL, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/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

## The proposition\n\n* The opportunity to work in a fast-growing, VC-backed HR tech startup\n* $60k - $70k (gross compensation incl. bonus), stock options\n* Your hours are flexible, and so is your vacation\n* You can work wherever you want – We work remotely!\n\n\n## The role in context\n\nWe are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our engineering department and help us bring our product to Enterprise level maturity. Your work will directly impact hundreds of thousands of users around the world.\n \nAs a senior member of the engineering team, you’ll build and deliver backend solutions such as APIs, integrations, and architecture components to enable the rapid growth of all our products.\n \nYou’ll own the design, code, and deployment of solutions and make sure they perform and scale in production. \n \n\n## You’ll Spend Time On The Following\n\n* Create highly scalable and reliable microservices architectures\n* Lead the entire software development and delivery cycle from ideation to deployment and everything in between\n* Write clean, tested, and well-documented code\n* Apply modern backend technologies, including but not limited to Python, Django, Redis, and AWS\n* Efficiently utilize DevOps tools and practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible.\n* Work in a collaborative, talented distributed team across Europe, United States, South America, and Asia.\n* You will act as a mentor for less-experienced team members through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills\n\n\n## Here’s What We’re Looking For\n\n* You have at least 7 years of experience in software development & delivery\n* You can efficiently write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with functional and Object-Oriented programming languages\n* You have experience building distributed and highly scalable systems including REST APIs and event-driven architectures\n* You have strong knowledge about data storage design using relational and NoSQL databases\n* You understand the importance of reliable monitoring, deployment strategies, and a highly scalable and robust cloud infrastructure\n* You are passionate about improving skills and learning new technologies\n* You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change \n* You’re resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives\n* You have strong written and verbal communication skills. You can validate your decisions and communicate them clearly.\n\n### Bonus points if . . .\n* you have experience in a SaaS product based company\n* you are comfortable with Agile methods, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, and/or Kanban\n* you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker \n\n\n## About TestGorilla\n\nAt TestGorilla, we envision a world where everyone has their dream job. To achieve that, employers and employees need to have the right information about each other. \n\nWe started in 2020 by building a screening platform that allows employers to evaluate candidates in the skills that matter most for success in a role. Our product replaces subjective, incomplete, and often inflated CVs with objective, reliable, and fair test results that measure aptitude, practical job skills, culture add, and motivation. \n\nImproving and expanding this platform is our core focus at the moment, but it’s only the beginning of our journey to get everyone their dream job. Over time, we will launch more products that support this mission.\n \nIn early 2020 we attracted $1.2M in seed funding. Our platform went live commercially in July 2020, and we’ve experienced rapid growth since then.\n \nWe work remotely, spread across the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, the US, Argentina, Serbia, and the Philippines.\n\n\n## Our values\n\nJoining TestGorilla means you’re joining a group of people who are committed to a set of values that guide our behaviors and decisions day to day:\n\n* We encourage each other: We bring a positive attitude to work. We help each other when stuck. We challenge each other in constructive ways. We celebrate wins as a team.\n* We are bold: We’re bold in our ambition and dare to create new things. We know what we’re capable of and learn from our mistakes. \n* We take full ownership of our work: We own the outcome of our work and do whatever necessary to improve it--including soliciting feedback and asking for help when we get stuck.\n* We strive for excellence: We hold ourselves to high standards and work hard to increase our competencies.\n* We do the right thing: We’re straight shooters and take our work seriously. We treat each other, our customers, and our collaborators with respect and empathy. \n* We respect our (work-style) differences: We all have different ways of living and working. We all find our own point of balance, respect our differences, and accommodate each other’s style and preferences. \n\nPlease mention the words **CONDUCT FACULTY HARBOR** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). 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 — $70,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nCrunch.i, part of the YouGov PLC is a market-defining company in the analytics SaaS marketplace. We’re a company on the rise. We’ve built a revolutionary platform that transforms our customers’ ability to drive insight from market research and survey data. We offer a complete survey data analysis platform that allows market researchers, analysts, and marketers to collaborate in a secure, cloud-based environment, using a simple, intuitive drag-and-drop interface to prepare, analyze, visualize and deliver survey data and analysis. Quite simply, Crunch provides the quickest and easiest way for anyone, from CMO to PhD, with zero training, to analyze survey data. Users create tables, charts, graphs and maps. They filter, and slice-and-dice survey data directly in their browser.\n\nOur start-up culture is casual, respectful of each other’s varied backgrounds and lives, and high-energy because of our shared dedication to our product and our mission. We are loyal to each other and our company. We value work/life balance, efficiency, simplicity, and fantastic customer service! Crunch has no offices and fully embraces a 100% remote culture. We have 40 employees spread across 5 continents. Remote work at Crunch is flexible and largely independent, yet highly cooperative.\n\nWe are hiring a DevOps Lead to help expand our platform and operations excellence. We are inviting you to join our small, fully remote team of developers and operators helping make our platform faster, more secure, and more reliable. You will be self-motivated and disciplined in order to work with our fully distributed team.\n\nWe are looking for someone who is a quick study, who is eager to learn and grow with us, and who has experience in DevOps and Agile cultures. At Crunch, we believe in learning together: we recognize that we don’t have all the answers, and we try to ask each other the right questions. As Crunch employees are completely distributed, it’s crucial that you can work well independently, and keep yourself motivated and focused.\n\nOur Stack:\n\nWe currently run our in-house production Python code against Redis, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch services. We proxy API requests through NGINX, load balance with ELBs, and deploy our React web application to AWS CloudFront CDN. Our current CI/CD process is built around GitHub, Jenkins, BlueOcean including unit, integration, and end to end tests and automated system deployments. We deploy to auto-scaling Groups using Ansible and Cloud-Init.\n\nIn the future, all or part of our platform may be deployed via DroneCI, Kubernetes, nginx ingress, Helm, and Spinnaker.\n\nWhat you'll do:\n\nAs a Leader:\n\n\n* Manage and lead a team of Cloud Operations Engineers who are tasked with ensuring our uptime guarantees to our customer base.\n\n* Scale the worldwide Cloud Operations Engineering team with the strategic implementation of new processes and tools.\n\n* Hire and ramp exceptional Cloud Operations Engineers.\n\n* Assist in scoping, designing and deploying systems that reduce Mean Time to Resolve for customer incidents.\n\n* Inform executive leadership and escalation management personnel of major outages\n\n* Compile and report KPIs across the full company.\n\n* Work with Sales Engineers to complete pre-sales questionnaires, and to gather customer use metrics.\n\n* Prioritize projects competing for human and computational resources to achieve organizational goals.\n\n\n\n\nAs an Engineer:\n\n\n* Monitor and detect emerging customer-facing incidents on the Crunch platform; assist in their proactive resolution, and work to prevent them from occurring.\n\n* Coordinate and participate in a weekly on-call rotation, where you will handle short term customer incidents (from direct surveillance or through alerts via our Technical Services Engineers).\n\n* Diagnose live incidents, differentiate between platform issues versus usage issues across the entire stack; hardware, software, application and network within physical datacenter and cloud-based environments, and take the first steps towards resolution.\n\n* Automate routine monitoring and troubleshooting tasks.\n\n* Cooperate with our product management and engineering organizations by identifying areas for improvement in the management of applications powering the Crunch infrastructure.\n\n* Provide consistent, high-quality feedback and recommendations to our product managers and development teams regarding product defects or recurring performance issues.\n\n* Be the owner of our platform. This includes everything from our cloud provider implementation to how we build, deploy and instrument our systems.\n\n* Drive improvements and advancements to the platform in areas such as container orchestration, service mesh, request/retry strategies.\n\n* Build frameworks and tools to empower safe, developer-led changes, automate the manual steps and provide insight into our complex system.\n\n* Work directly with software engineering and infrastructure leadership to enhance the performance, scalability and observability of resources of multiple applications and ensure that production hand off requirements are met and escalate issues.\n\n* Embed into SRE projects to stay close to the operational workflows and issues.\n\n* Evangelize the adoption of best practices in relation to performance and reliability across the organization.\n\n* Provide a solid operational foundation for building and maintaining successful SRE teams and processes.\n\n* Maintain project and operational workload statistics.\n\n* Promote a healthy and functional work environment.\n\n* Work with Security experts to do periodic penetration testing, and drive resolution for any issues discovered.\n\n* Liaise with IT and Security Team Leads to successfully complete cross-team projects, filling in for these Leads when necessary.\n\n* Administer a large portfolio of SaaS tools used throughout the company.\n\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n\n\n* Team Lead experience of an on-call DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations team (at least 2 years).\n\n* Experience recruiting, mentoring, and promoting high performing team members.\n\n* Experience being an on-call DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Operations engineer (at least 2 years).\n\n* Proven track record of designing, building, sizing, optimizing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure.\n\n* Proven experience developing software, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and managing production infrastructure in AWS.\n\n* Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining full CI/CD pipelines in a cloud environment (Jenkins experience preferred).\n\n* Experience with containers and container orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, traefik, Nginx ingress and Spinnaker experience preferred).\n\n* Expertise with Linux system administration (5 yrs) and networking technologies including IPv6.\n\n* Knowledgeable about a wide range of web and internet technologies.\n\n* Knowledge of NoSQL database operations and concepts.\n\n* Experience in monitoring, system performance data collection and analysis, and reporting.\n\n* Capability to write small programs/scripts to solve both short-term systems problems and to automate repetitive workflows (Python and Bash preferred).\n\n* Exceptional English communication and troubleshooting skills.\n\n* A keen interest in learning new things.\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, Executive, React, English, Elasticsearch, Cloud, NoSQL, Python, API, Sales, SaaS, Engineer, Nginx 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

\nJob description\n\nIn the last years, we successfully built up an R&D company that develops great products using latest technologies. We do this with an unique approach: combining a fixed core team and a huge and strong community of developers, engineers, makers, hackers, and designers. In the community, there are freelancers, academic researchers, and senior elite students that then work on projects on a flexible basis.\n\nYou could join our community as a Django Backend Engineer in a student job position (in Gemany called "Werkstudent"). \n\nThis is not a 100% remote position. You'll have the option to work remotely, but it is not a fully remote position. Please don't apply if you can't guarantee to come to our office in Munich or Stuttgart once in a while (especially in the first few months).\n\nYour profile\n\n\n* Currently pursuing studies in Computer Science, Information Systems, Informatics, or similar\n\n* Optimally located in southern German area (e.g. Stuttgart, Munich, Augsburg, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe, etc.), as Werkstudenten should be able to come our offices every now and then\n\n* Hand-on experience in web application technologies such as Python, Django, or Flask (or NodeJS maybe)\n\n* Good software engineering basics (e.g. patterns, architectural questions)\n\n* Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, PostgreSQL)\n\n* Having worked in agile environments, being able to follow the SCRUM process\n\n* Good communication skills in English in writing and speaking\n\n* Having worked with Docker, GitLab CI, or comparable tools\n\n* Any Frontend (JavaScript, ReactJS, ReactNative) experience would be awesome\n\n\n\n\nYour Role\n\n\n* Taking over a central role in web development projects at Motius\n\n* Joining various teams, topics, and customers (e.g. Microsoft, Innogy, BMW, Siemens) for building strong and beautiful web & app projects, e.g. for Smart City usecases, Blockchain applications, or IoT products\n\n* Perspective: after graduating becoming a fullstack engineer and leading the scrum process with teams of 2-5 other developers and 1-2 DevOps engineers\n\n* Discussing the technical realisation of feature requests with Product & Project Owners\n\n* Organizing code reviews, pair programming sessions for improving the quality of the team\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer\n\n\n* Being part of our huge and interdisciplinary tech community of 600-800 developers, engineers, makers, hackers, etc.\n\n* Flexibility (remote work 30-70% possible)\n\n* Above average salary (for Munich tech startups)\n\n* Getting great and unique insights into different industries by joining different projects from time to time, e.g. building a solution with BMW in the IoT area for 4 months, and then joining a Microsoft Xbox project afterwards\n\n\n\n\nSome of the values we share here are\n\n\n* open communication and a constant feedback culture (flat hierarchies help here)\n\n* diverse teams (not really a value, but diverse teams lead to great results in our opinion)\n\n* comitted to personal growth (as a young company, we all grow day by day)\n\n* eagerness, curiosity, and desire to build new products, learn new things, try things out, fail fast, etc.\n\n\n\n\nWhat you can expect here\n\n\n* a young team that wants to grow with you\n\n* a steep learning curve and definitely a place to take over ownership and responsibility for something\n\n* a diverse team with over 10 nationalities and tech backgrounds as software engineers, designers, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, etc.\n\n* a self-funded healthy startup that grows constantly and is profitable from year one\n\n* of course coffee and team building events and all these hippie startup things\n\n\n\n\nAPPLICATION PROCESS:\n\nPlease apply either via Stackoverflow or via our Motius Platform (www.motius.de/talents) directly in our community\n\n* Step: Review of your profile and background\n\n* Step: First interview via Skype/Hangout or in person in Munich\n\n* Step: Technical Test (e.g. via Hackerrank)\n\n* Step: If successful, becoming part of our Tech community at Motius\n\n* Step: For a concrete project, a concrete technical interview with a Technical Project Manager at Motius\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Engineer, Backend, DevOps, English, NoSQL, Microsoft and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

Join the team at Teaching.com to create, develop, and deliver fun and engaging software for educators and students!\n\nWho We Are & What We Do\n\nWe’re working to change the future of online education by building exciting products that equip students and teachers with the tools to succeed in the classroom and beyond. Our team is hungry to learn and improve—both when it comes to our products and ourselves. We’re a small, hard-working group of self-starters who are passionate about what we do and constantly seeking new ways we can be better, together.\n\nAs a team member at Teaching.com, you’ll get to work on popular products like Typing.com, the world’s largest typing software, and Nitro Type, the #1 educational game in the world. Everyone at Teaching.com is empowered to move quickly, make decisions, and get things done so we can continue to make learning accessible to our growing community of more than 40 million students and teachers around the world.\n\nWho You Are & What You’ll Do\n\nWe’re looking for a team-oriented DevOps engineer with strong strategy, planning, and leadership skills who’s passionate about systems architecture and operations. As the bridge between development and operations, you will work across teams to lead the creation of DevOps solutions that will scale to keep up with our rapid growth.\n\nThis is a remote-based position.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Work alongside engineering teams to design and implement AWS solutions for infrastructure for deployment, monitoring, alerting, data storage, and security\n- Evaluate new tools and technologies based on current and future feature requirements, performance, cost effectiveness, and reliability\n- Review existing infrastructure with a fresh perspective to suggest improvements and optimizations\n- Contribute to best practices, create diagrams and documentation where appropriate, and participate in standups with the engineering team\n- Collaborate with the engineering team to define strategy and technical infrastructure roadmap, and drive the rapid implementation of appropriate technologies\n- Define and report on performance KPI\n\nSkills & Background\n\n- Extensive AWS cloud experience (EC2, ELB, ECS, VPC, IAM, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, etc.)\nAWS Certification preferred but not essential: SysOps and/or Solutions Architect ideal\n- Demonstrable expertise in managing AWS-based infrastructure\n- Experience with DevOps and automation: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Configuration Management, CloudFormation, Salt, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, CircleCI, etc.\n- Experience with Docker tooling and ecosystem\n- Experience with Git version control system\n- Experience using Packer to create identical machine images across multiple platforms\n- Operating systems: experience supporting mission-critical platforms, both physical and virtualized environments, using Vagrant as well as CentOS and AWS Linux distributions\n- Experience using Terraform to build, change, and version infrastructure\n- Experience managing serverless infrastructures using AWS CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, S3, etc.\n- Solid working knowledge of cloud computing architectures, networking topologies, and clustering techniques\n- Web servers: advanced experience with Nginx\n- Data platforms: MySQL/RDS and NoSQL databases\n- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby)\n- Expertise with application performance monitoring tools such as AppDynamics, NewRelic, and open source alternatives\n- Organization/ticketing systems: JIRA, Redmine, or similar tool\n- Self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and spoken\n\nCompensation, Benefits & Perks\n\nCompetitive salary\nMedical, dental, and vision healthcare benefits\nUnlimited paid time off\nRemote office stipend and hardware assistance\nFlexible office hours\nAnnual conference allowance\nAnnual company retreat\n\nHow to Apply\n\nPlease apply here: http://jobs.teaching.com/apply/aLQx1wHcyc/Senior-DevOps-Engineer\n\nPosition Type\n\nFull-Time/Regular Remote\n\nNO RECRUITERS.\n\nSorry, we will not transfer or sponsor visas. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. \n\nPlease mention the words **PROOF KISS EXIT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). 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, Git, Python, Ruby, Senior, Engineer, Nginx, Education, Serverless, Cloud, NoSQL, API and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n