Go Developer for Slack-Backed Startup

Technical Integrity

About the company
Do you love DevOps and CI/CD? Are you particularly fond of Kubernetes and Slack? Our client’s mission is to make DevOps more enjoyable and accessible to the next 50 million developers. They are a tight knit, growing and fast paced startup team backed by Slack and several well regarded Silicon Valley funds.

They are working to ;

Automate multi-step workflows such as build, test and release of any CI/CD process. Create an end to end custom, versioned DevOps workflow directly in Slack. Measuring consistency in delivery and making the lives of developers easier!

Salary
100,000-140,000 CAD

Job description
Senior Engineer for DevOps Centric Startup

Do you love DevOps and CI/CD? Are you particularly fond of Kubernetes and Slack? Our client’s mission is to make DevOps more enjoyable and accessible to the next 50 million developers. They are a tight knit, growing and fast paced startup team backed by Slack and several well regarded Silicon Valley funds.

They are working to ;

Automate multi-step workflows such as build, test and release of any CI/CD process. Create an end to end custom, versioned DevOps workflow directly in Slack. Measuring consistency in delivery and making the lives of developers easier!

Reasons To Work There;

Value each other's opinions and voices and work to create a transparent and collaborative environment
Provide a flexible work schedule and environment
Foster a culture of inclusivity and invite all those interested to apply!
A lot of autonomy and the opportunity to make a big impact
Offer an employer-paid comprehensive benefits plan
Support families and provide employees with Maternity & Parental leave options
Have a flexible vacation policy
Tech stack (best tool for the job philosophy) includes:

Golang, Rust, Node.js and Vue.

SDKs for building Ops in: Golang, Python, Node.js, and Bash.

What You’ll Do

Write Ops for our open source library to serve as examples for our community
Help improve our developer experience and environment
Support our community team through various initiatives - the more involved you want to be the better!
Work on tickets in Sprints spanning features, bugs, tech debt in API, CLI client, Slack client, or in one of our microservices
Coordinate with Product team to unblock their designs and MVP features
Collaborate with the team to solution minimal viable product offerings within time budgeted
On support rotation, assist customers with user facing difficulties and tackle critical bugs
Improve documentation of our system both internally and customer facing
About You

You are a pragmatic programmer, you approach the problems of today with a “get it done” attitude while still thinking about how these decisions impact our product tomorrow. You also understand what it's like to work with a business and product in this early stage. We are a user centric company, experience in building products that users can’t live without is an absolute must. We are also very active in the developer community and want those who share our passion in creating bigger conversations around DevOps and the developer experience. Be sure to join our community! Previous startup experience, customer facing and/or team lead experience are highly preferred.

Technical Experience

5+ years engineering experience, ideally in a highly scalable SaaS environment
Experience in DevOps OR working in a team where DevOps was a priority
Relational and non-relational databases
Microservice-oriented architecture
Experience architecting and complex systems

Preferred Experience Breakdown

3+ years in Node.js/React/Vue and/or 2+ years Golang (or 4+ in other related languages)
2+ years container orchestration experience in Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or equivalent
2+ years experience in AWS for configuring and maintaining cloud resources

Nice to Have Skills

2+ years Python or Ruby | 1+ years Rust | 1+ years TypeScript |
1+ years Azure/GCP for configuring and maintaining cloud resources
Full stack Experience

I’m In!

Please include links like your GitHub, code samples or social accounts that will help us understand your background.