Engineering Manager, DevOps

Summary

Join AllTrails, the world's leading outdoors platform, as an Engineering Manager, DevOps! In this role, you will lead and mentor a team of engineers, overseeing DevOps, Build & Release, Security, and IT activities. You'll be responsible for managing cloud costs, ensuring service quality, and fostering a culture of coding best practices. This position requires extensive experience in AWS, IaC, and CI/CD, along with proven leadership skills. AllTrails offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including health benefits, unlimited PTO, flexible parental leave, and a remote work stipend. Bay Area employees are encouraged to come into the office one day a week. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years leading a DevOps team
• 5+ years of experience programming with general-purpose languages such as Ruby, Python, or Go and scripting languages such as Unix Shell, Bash, and PowerShell
• 4+ years of experience with AWS
• Proven ability to lead and grow a team, all while fostering career development
• Deep experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, RDS, and CloudFront
• Deep knowledge of IaC patterns and practices and related automation tools such as Terraform
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and CI/CD
• Monitoring and metrics-gathering (DataDog, NewRelic, CloudWatch, etc)
• Understanding of Aurora/MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other relational and non-relational databases
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub or other distributed version control systems
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation—currently the rotation is once a quarter
• Self-motivation and a deep sense of pride in your work
• Passion about the outdoors, web technologies and AllTrails’ mission to connect people to the outdoors
• Humility, empathy and open-mindedness—no egos

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and play a hands-on role in activities in the DevOps, Build & Release, Security, and IT teams
• Coach and lead a passionate team of hardworking engineers responsible for scaling AllTrails service-oriented architecture
• Work with the team to break down large technical initiatives into smaller tasks to forecast deliveries over multiple sprints
• Play a key role in managing our cloud cost management strategies
• Own the team's quality of service monitoring, coding best practices, and code reviews
• Work with applications that use Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
• Assist other Engineering teams in effective incident response or root-cause analysis
• Identify and squash bugs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Elastic, Algolia, or similar tools
• Excitement for transitioning Rails Monoliths into right-sized services
• Experience with load testing and unit testing
• Knowledge of industry best practices for foundational security elements
• Understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols

Benefits

• A competitive and equitable compensation plan. This is a full-time, salaried position that includes equity
• Physical & mental well-being including health, dental and vision benefits, and a monthly stipend for wellness expenses
• Trail Days: First Friday of each month off to hit the trails!
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible parental leave
• A remote employee equipment stipend to create a great remote work environment
• An annual continuing education stipend
• Discounts on subscription and merchandise for you and your friends & family
• An authentic investment in you as a human being and your career as a professional