Development Operations Engineer

Activehours is reinventing the way people get paid by giving them immediate access to the money they’ve earned. We’re looking for passionate hackers, thinkers, and innovators to push our product even further. We celebrate victory, don’t shy from failure, and are always learning.

Join our tight-knit team in a highly collaborative environment, where you’ll help shape the next generation of our platform from inception to production. Your code will help people access their pay and change their financial futures. If that sounds like your dream job, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead the way in our platform automation and site reliability. Working closely with a small team, the ideal candidate will make big decisions on the future of Activehours. You will be expected to lend your experience to shaping, defining, and tweaking all of our key systems as we scale beyond hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Silicon Valley, this position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.

Requirements

Skills & Requirements; Who you are; Smart: You have a broad skillset and learn new technologies quickly; Passionate: You’re driven to build tools that impact people’s lives; Collaborative: You excel working both within a team and cross-functionally with other teams; Loyal: You will take up arms (Nerf guns) to defend your teammates against attackers; Learner: you’re not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about your mistakes; What you’ll do; Help shape our next generation platform; Automate everything; Continuously improve our visibility into our systems and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analytics; Identify root causes on critical problems throughout the platform & take steps to resolve them; Create & follow-up on site incident reports and see them through to resolution; Communicate across third party services to resolve day-to-day issues and relay updates to the team; Build and deploy tools to ensure the health and reliability of Activehours systems; Architect & manage product release workflow & live deployments with continuous delivery system; Experiment with technologies and share learnings with the team to push our tech-forward mentality; Technical qualifications; 5+ years combined experience as software engineer, software engineer in test, systems administrator, site reliability engineer or any combination of roles; You are proficient at writing code and do so in order to automate infrastructure, improve system reliability and optimize continuous delivery pipelines