Ada is hiring a
DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join our development operations (DevOps) team as a cloud engineer to build and maintain foundational infrastructure, improve developer velocity, and foster a scalable & healthy engineering organization.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or platform teams
• Strong motivation and experience in using automation to reduce operational toil for both the DevOps and product engineering teams
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling data infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with containers and distributed computing platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience creating and supporting cloud-based systems at scale, with a strong emphasis on Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Strong understanding of a server-side programming language (proficient in one or more of the following languages/tools: Python, and/or bash scripting)
• Experience handling on-call responsibilities for production services
• Experience managing critical production infrastructure, ensuring reliability and uptime, with a customer-first approach to operational safety
• Good understanding of DevOps concepts and best practices

Responsibilities

• Create and support scalable and highly reliable software systems to support our growth
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to incorporate reliability into product and feature requirements
• Continuous analysis of the existing infrastructure from the reliability perspective, centered around removing performance bottlenecks, optimizing the infrastructure, the toolkit, and the workflows involved in running it
• Support various developer tools and processes (deployments, infrastructure management, among others)
• Work with engineering teams to troubleshoot core infrastructure issues and support teams as a consulted entity for service specific infrastructure needs
• Implement DevOps solutions across cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, deployments, and platform abstractions
• Participate in an on-call rotation for the services the team owns, triaging and addressing production issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MongoDB and horizontally scaling data stores (i.e. sharding)
• Familiarity with managing and scaling environments with 100s/1000s of nodes
• Familiarity with ArgoCD and GitOps principles
• Familiarity with support tooling (PagerDuty, Datadog, Loft, Doppler)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and generous stock option plan
• Unlimited vacation
• Wellness account
• Extended health coverage
• Dental/optical/travel insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee and family assistance plan
• Flexible work schedule
• Remote-first, In-person friendly work environment with WFH budget
• Paid parental leave for Canadian and U.S. residents
• Development opportunities