Remote JavaScript + Operational + Reliability + Senior + System Jobs

LOCATION: Remote within the US\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale the DailyKos platform. You will be hands-on and will actively collaborate with a team of 13 to guide projects, implement best practice solutions, champion the elimination of technical debt, and translate requirements into delivered products. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, SASS, JavaScript, React/Redux, Nginx, Varnish, and AWS/S3/Cloudfront. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love for you to join our passionate and dedicated team.\n\nOur offices are in Oakland, CA and Washington D.C., however, we are open to fully remote applicants.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Collaborate with coworkers across the organization to scope, design, and deliver solutions for large, complex challenges in the Daily Kos platform\n- Partner with internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality product releases in suitable timeframes\n- Actively participate in architectural planning and implementation\n- Effectively communicate technical vision\n- Evangelize best practices internally and externally\n- Clearly communicate technical issues and tie work to company objectives\n- Design for scale and reliability with the future in mind and do critical R&D\n- Persistently debug tough issues, finding a root cause or viable workaround\n- De-escalate conflicts and build consensus between team members about technical matters\n\nExperience\n\n- Strong experience with core web development technologies (Advanced JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks)\n- At least 5 years experience with Ruby on Rails\n- At least 2 years experience with React\n- Working knowledge of MySQL and pgSQL, possessing the ability to design, understand and edit database queries, optimization and profiling\n- Familiarity with AWS tool chain\n- Strong experience with Sidekiq\n- Strong experience with caching with a preference for direct experience with any of the following: redis, memcache, redis and/or varnish\n- Experience with large and complex code bases, utilizing API design techniques to help keep code clean and maintainable\n- A solid understanding of Linux\n\nQualifications\n\n- Deep understanding of modern web application best practices\n- Thought leader highly skilled in making technical decisions, influencing architecture, and prioritization across multiple teams\n- Ability to anticipate technical challenges, explore alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly\n- In-depth understanding of full stack; can navigate and make legacy code maintainable\n- Focused on defining patterns and operational guidelines for your domain\n- Capable of successfully planning and delivering complex, multi-team, or system projects\n- Identifies problems that need to be solved and advocates for their prioritization\n- Able to reduce unneeded complexity\n- Comfortable with the Agile and Lean development process\n- Able to actively diagnose and address data scaling and optimization issues\n- Ambitious spirit and focus on delivering value into customers hands with excellent communication\n- Familiarity with principles of good user experience\n- Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n- Familiarity with the Daily Kos application and commitment to become a platform expert\n- Willingness to travel occasionally for events or retreats\n\nSalary Range: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nBenefits:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Lead Staff Engineer. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, professional development stipend, company-paid holidays, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, as well as employer-paid parental/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees. \n\nPlease mention the word **RECOMMENDATIONS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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 $130,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

Netdata is looking for Senior Site Reliability / DevOps Engineers proficient in CI/CD methodologies, coupled with strong experience in software written in Javascript, Go, C, Python or other scripting languages, to join our distributed (remote) engineering team.\n\n\nAs a Senior SRE/DevOps engineer you will focus on supporting our netdata cloud offerings, augmenting our existing development infrastructure by implementing the automations necessary to catalyze further development of both our open-source project and our commercial offerings and last, but certainly not least, participating in the development of Netdata by making sure it's a first class citizen in various operating environments (e.g. orchestrated containers, IoT devices etc.)\n\nYour work will include building CI/CD pipelines, packaging, installation facilities and operational processes as well as developing custom solutions for our various teams and systems. As a Netdata SRE/DevOps engineer you will also be assisting engineers across our company, enabling them to provide world-class solutions for numerous platforms; as well as our community, open-source contributors and team-members with your deep knowledge of systems and troubleshooting skills.\n\n\n**Responsibilities**\n\n* Develop our automated CI/CD, packaging, deployment and execution environment infrastructure.\n* Develop automation tools to catalyse existing development or operational processes.\n* Evaluate, architect and develop technology options for our infrastructure and systems.\n* Troubleshoot, maintain, enhance and augment our platform.\n* Automate tasks wherever possible.\n* Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.\n\n**Job Requirements**\n\n**Required experience**\n\n* A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent\n* 3+ years of experience on CI/CD tools (Travis, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, etc) and methodologies\n* Minimum 3 years of Linux systems development and/or administration.\n* Minimum 2 years of experience with at least one scripting language, coupled with related automation projects\n* Previous experience with cloud-based technologies and surrounding operational processes\n* Self motivated, conscientious, with a problem-solving, hands-on mindset.\n* Perfectionist where it matters, but also pragmatic, with effective time management skills.\n* Team player, eager to help.\n* Excellent analytical skills.\n* Excellent command of spoken and written English.\n\n**Preferred experience**\n\n* Minimum 2 years of Go, Javascript and C development experience in demanding environments.\n* Expert on Continuous Integration, with long experience in Test Automation\n* 5+ years of shell scripting experience, on at least 2 languages (BASH, python, perl, ruby, etc.)\n* Minimum 2 years of experience with Google Cloud app engine and surrounding operational processes\n* Experience on configuration management and tools to support it (Ansible, puppet, etc.)\n* Experience with monitoring solutions and service assurance in general.\n* A linux, cross-distribution artisan. A good amount of knowledge on windows system administration\n* Open source contributor\n* Agile Development Methodology\n\n\n**Why join Netdata**\n\n* We are a team of industry veterans and senior engineers that prioritize performance and ease of use over anything else.\n* We embrace remote work and great work-life balance.\n* We are solving hard problems that affect thousands of organisations worldwide.\n* We are deeply committed to Open Source and love our community.\n* We deeply care about system performance.\n\n**When you join Netdata, you can expect**\n\n* A competitive salary.\n* A generous stock plan.\n* To join a venture-backed startup working with some of the most sophisticated investors of Silicon Valley.\n* To be part of our world-class team and interact with an amazing community.\n* To see first-hand how to grow and succeed in an engineering-first, open source-based company.\n* To find a culture that rewards doers.\n\n*Netdata is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of discrimination and harassment for everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military service or other non-merit factor.*\n \n\nPlease mention the words **SWAMP MOTION COTTON** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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#Location\nWorldwide

Netdata is looking for Senior Site Reliability / DevOps Engineers proficient in CI/CD methodologies, coupled with strong experience in software written in Javascript, Go, C, Python or other scripting languages, to join our distributed (remote) engineering team.\n\nAs a Senior SRE/DevOps engineer you will focus on supporting our netdata cloud offerings, augmenting our existing development infrastructure by implementing the automations necessary to catalyze further development of both our open-source project and our commercial offerings and last, but certainly not least, participating in the development of Netdata by making sure it's a first class citizen in various operating environments (e.g. orchestrated containers, IoT devices etc.)\n\nYour work will include building CI/CD pipelines, packaging, installation facilities and operational processes as well as developing custom solutions for our various teams and systems. As a Netdata SRE/DevOps engineer you will also be assisting engineers across our company, enabling them to provide world-class solutions for numerous platforms; as well as our community, open-source contributors and team-members with your deep knowledge of systems and troubleshooting skills.\n\n\n**Responsibilities**\n\n* Develop our automated CI/CD, packaging, deployment and execution environment infrastructure.\n* Develop automation tools to catalyse existing development or operational processes.\n* Evaluate, architect and develop technology options for our infrastructure and systems.\n* Troubleshoot, maintain, enhance and augment our platform.\n* Automate tasks wherever possible.\n* Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.\n\n**Job Requirements**\n\n**Required experience**\n\n* A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent\n* 3+ years of experience on CI/CD tools (Travis, Gitlab, AWS, Azure, etc) and methodologies\n* Minimum 3 years of Linux systems development and/or administration.\n* Minimum 2 years of experience with at least one scripting language, coupled with related automation projects\n* Previous experience with cloud-based technologies and surrounding operational processes\n* Self motivated, conscientious, with a problem-solving, hands-on mindset.\n* Perfectionist where it matters, but also pragmatic, with effective time management skills.\n* Team player, eager to help.\n* Excellent analytical skills.\n* Excellent command of spoken and written English.\n \n**Preferred experience**\n\n* Minimum 2 years of Go, Javascript and C development experience in demanding environments.\n* Expert on Continuous Integration, with long experience in Test Automation\n* 5+ years of shell scripting experience, on at least 2 languages (BASH, python, perl, ruby, etc.)\n* Minimum 2 years of experience with Google Cloud app engine and surrounding operational processes\n* Experience on configuration management and tools to support it (Ansible, puppet, etc.)\n* Experience with monitoring solutions and service assurance in general.\n* A linux, cross-distribution artisan. A good amount of knowledge on windows system administration\n* Open source contributor\n* Agile Development Methodology \n\nPlease mention the words **EQUIP BOSS TENANT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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#Location\nWorldwide