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ABOUT US
At Close, we're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we're leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals (faster). Since our founding in 2013, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of 50+ high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.
Our backend tech stack currently consists primarily of Python Flask web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS, MSK, RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our compute runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters. Our backend primarily serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using AWS tools, Terraform, and Ansible.
We're looking for a full-time Engineering Manager to join our core Product & Engineering Team who has significant experience building, managing, and monitoring backend services at scale. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a medium-sized, talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively, and collaborate in a fully distributed team.
Reporting to the Director of Backend Engineering, you will lead a small team of Python engineers, helping them solve technical challenges, project planning and providing other support as needed to help them build our backend services. Your team will split its time working on a combination of (a) general backend projects to improve our product, and (b) specific focus areas assigned to your team.
Areas of focus...
Data storage systems including traditional SQL and NoSQL databases as well as advanced indexing/searching technologies (Mongo, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch)
Reporting and Business Intelligence systems (custom implementations using Elasticsearch plugins, SQL window functions and other analytical techniques)
Messaging and queuing systems (Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL)
Manage and grow a team of 4-8 mostly senior Python software engineers, support them through 1:1s and continuous feedback, and support their career growth.
Help manage our software development cycles by supporting prioritizing, speccing, and building features (our process is loosely based on Shape Up).
Work with other Close teams to communicate changes, gather requirements, and maintain open communication across our organization.
Develop a roadmap for their team’s focus areas and set goals to work towards that plan.
Help tune our engineering processes to allow us to scale and continue shipping high quality software.
Promote delegating responsibilities across their team and sharing knowledge whenever possible (check out our engineering blog for examples of sharing).
Help maintain our public and private GitHub repos by managing issues and projects to categorize, prioritize, and plan future work.
This position is primarily a management role but the candidate should be comfortable with coding efforts like PR reviews, bug fixes, and other coding activities outside of critical path development efforts.
You should...
Have 2+ years leading a software engineering team.
Have 4+ years of senior software engineering experience (Senior experience in other languages is acceptable but working knowledge of Python is required).
Have a strong interest and ideally significant experience in backend technologies like databases, async job processing, messaging systems, indexing/search systems, web frameworks, etc.
Be detail-oriented, organized, and great at oral/written communication.
Be self-motivated and comfortable with responsibility.
Be growth minded and want to help improve our processes, scale teams, and take other actions that significantly improve our productivity and quality.
Be located in the Americas or in a European/African time zone. We have regular Zoom meetings with team members throughout these time zones.
At Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practice a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we don’t have strict policies, we have guidelines. Work/life harmony is an important part of our business - we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you).
We come from 16 countries located in 5 of the 7 continents -- looking at you Antarctica and Australia ;-) ….. We’re a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Every year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another. These gatherings are an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our global community.
Our team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 17 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is “Build a house you want to live in.” We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our people and help our customers become more successful.
Our application process was designed to promote equitable and unbiased hiring practices. We ask a small series of questions that are similar to what would be asked in the first interview. This helps us learn more about you right from the start so please be sure to answer each question thoughtfully. All applications are reviewed internally by one of our team members; a qualified application undergoes a second review by the hiring manager to determine whether a call is scheduled. Regardless of fit, you will hear back from us letting you know if we'll be moving forward.
Please mention the word IMPRESSED when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid fake spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and instantly see they're human.
Salary and compensation
$100,000 — $200,000/year
Benefits
💰 401(k)
🌎 Distributed team
⏰ Async
🤓 Vision insurance
🦷 Dental insurance
🚑 Medical insurance
💰 401k matching
🏔 Company retreats
🏬 Coworking budget
📚 Learning budget
How do you apply?
This job post has been closed by the poster, which means they probably have enough applicants now. Please do not apply.
This job post is closed and the position is probably filled. Please do not apply. Work for Close and want to re-open this job? Use the edit link in the email when you posted the job!
ABOUT US
At Close, we're building the sales communication platform of the future. With our roots as the very first sales CRM to include built-in calling, we're leading the industry toward eliminating manual processes and helping companies to close more deals (faster). Since our founding in 2013, we've grown to become a profitable, 100% globally distributed team of 50+ high-performing, happy people that are dedicated to building a product our customers love.
Our backend tech stack currently consists primarily of Python Flask web apps with our TaskTiger scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous task processing chores. Our data stores include MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Redis. The underlying infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like EKS, MSK, RDS and ElasticCache and non-managed services running on EC2 instances. All of our compute runs through CI/CD pipelines that build Docker images, run automated tests and deploy to our Kubernetes clusters. Our backend primarily serves a well-documented public API that our front-end JavaScript app consumes. Our infrastructure is heavily automated using AWS tools, Terraform, and Ansible.
We're looking for a full-time Engineering Manager to join our core Product & Engineering Team who has significant experience building, managing, and monitoring backend services at scale. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with a medium-sized, talented team where you're supported in your efforts to grow professionally. You are able to manage your time well, communicate effectively, and collaborate in a fully distributed team.
Reporting to the Director of Backend Engineering, you will lead a small team of Python engineers, helping them solve technical challenges, project planning and providing other support as needed to help them build our backedn services. Your team will split its time working on a combination of (a) general backend projects to improve our product, and (b) specific focus areas assigned to your team.
Areas of focus...
Data storage systems including traditional SQL and NoSQL databases as well as advanced indexing/searching technologies (Mongo, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch)
Reporting and Business Intelligence systems (custom implementations using Elasticsearch plugins, SQL window functions and other analytical techniques)
Messaging and queuing systems (Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL)
Manage and grow a team of 4-8 mostly senior Python software engineers, support them through 1:1s and continuous feedback, and support their career growth.
Help manage our software development cycles by supporting prioritizing, speccing, and building features (our process is loosely based on Shape Up).
Work with other Close teams to communicate changes, gather requirements, and maintain open communication across our organization.
Develop a roadmap for their team’s focus areas and set goals to work towards that plan.
Help tune our engineering processes to allow us to scale and continue shipping high quality software.
Promote delegating responsibilities across their team and sharing knowledge whenever possible (check out our engineering blog for examples of sharing).
Help maintain our public and private GitHub repos by managing issues and projects to categorize, prioritize, and plan future work.
This position is primarily a management role but the candidate should be comfortable with coding efforts like PR reviews, bug fixes, and other coding activities outside of critical path development efforts.
You should...
Have 2+ years leading a software engineering team.
Have 4+ years of senior software engineering experience (Senior experience in other languages is acceptable but working knowledge of Python is a must).
Have a strong interest and ideally significant experience in backend technologies like databases, async job processing, messaging systems, indexing/search systems, web frameworks, etc.
Be detail-oriented, organized, and great at oral/written communication.
Be self-motivated and comfortable with responsibility.
Be growth minded and want to help improve our processes, scale teams, and take other actions that significantly improve our productivity and quality.
Be located in the Americas or in a European/African time zone. We have regular Zoom meetings with team members throughout these time zones.
At Close, everyone has a voice. We encourage transparency and practice a mature approach to the work-place. In general, we don’t have strict policies, we have guidelines. Work/life harmony is an important part of our business - we believe you bring your best to work when you practice self-care (whatever that looks like for you).
We come from 16 countries located in 5 of the 7 continents -- looking at you Antarctica and Australia ;-) ….. We’re a collection of talented humans rich in diverse backgrounds, lifestyles, and cultures. Every year we meet up somewhere around the world to spend time with one another. These gatherings are an opportunity to strengthen the social fiber of our global community.
Our team is growing in more ways than one - we’ve recently launched 17 babies (and counting!). Unanimously, our favorite and most impactful value is “Build a house you want to live in.” We strive to make decisions that are authentic for our people and help our customers become more successful.
Our application process was designed to promote equitable and unbiased hiring practices. We ask a small series of questions that are similar to what would be asked in the first interview. This helps us learn more about you right from the start so please be sure to answer each question thoughtfully. All applications are reviewed internally by one of our team members; a qualified application undergoes a second review by the hiring manager to determine whether a call is scheduled. Regardless of fit, you will hear back from us letting you know if we'll be moving forward.
Interested in Close but don't think this role is the best fit for you? View our other positions.
Please mention the word NIFTY when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). This is a feature to avoid fake spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and instantly see they're human.
Salary and compensation
$100,000 — $180,000/year
Benefits
⏰ Async
🌎 Distributed team
Location
Worldwide
How do you apply?
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\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
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