Oyster is hiring a
Senior Engineer

Summary

Join Oyster, a global employment platform that helps companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere. We're expanding our Engineering function with the addition of a new Platform role, focusing on elevating Developer Experience and Platform Operations.

Requirements

• A total of 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years of experience deploying and operating web applications in production using a modern language and framework (Ruby, Python, PHP, Node, Go, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of observability, telemetry, and monitoring (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Sentry, etc.)
• Proven experience operating infrastructure hosted on Linux operating systems
• Significant experience with hosting in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Proven experience maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines (Harness CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Practices TDD and understands the nuances and complexities of browser tests
• Deployment and provisioning, ideally via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Worked with containerization
• Skilled with shell scripting
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers and stakeholders at any level

Responsibilities

• Own and operate current and future infrastructure
• Develop and guide strategic initiatives to support our Platform, including hosting, CI/CD, and telemetry
• Be a force multiplier; research and develop tooling to remove drag from the product development lifecycle
• Be a steward of Service Ownership; partner with Product Development teams to empower them to successfully monitor their own modules, services, and endpoints
• Leverage tools such as Static Code Analysis, Tests, and even custom Shell Scripts to enhance our processes and ensure high-quality results
• Plan and implement migrations from current technology stacks to fulfill tomorrow’s needs
• Keep the success rate of Continuous Integration builds in Merge Queue above 90%, and take part in creating more metrics
• Work on future improvements of our CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain a consistent development framework with reusable CLI across projects. Aim for portable, vendor-agnostic solutions
• Partner with Product Development teams to enable them to monitor their own modules, services, and endpoints successfully
• Gradually work towards detecting issues before they happen in production while empowering others to do the same
• Enhance Test Driven Development experience to provide faster feedback loops, effectively decreasing cycle time

Benefits

• Work from anywhere: Oyster is a borderless, HQ-less company. As long as your work gets done on time, your team has the support they need, and you're authorized to work where you live, the world is truly your Oyster
• Paid time off: We’re all about taking breaks—we all need it. Oyster provides employees with 40 days off each year, which includes public/bank holidays and vacation/holiday leave (unless your country mandates more)
• Mental health support: We consider your mental health a top priority. We offer access to Plumm, a mental well-being service, to support your mental health
• Wellbeing allowance: Each month, Oyster will top up your ThanksBen wallet with a wellbeing allowance. You can get pretty much anything that your heart desires! ThanksBen offers a wide array of options for spending your wellbeing allowance
• Flexible parental leave: Families are created in lots of different ways. Our parental leave policy applies to all employees who are becoming parents, regardless of how they become a parent. Oysters are eligible for a minimum of three months of paid parental leave and your job will be held for 12 months (or longer if required by local jurisdiction)
• WFH stipend: Stipend to spend on your laptop and any other equipment you need for your home office; we'll get you up and running in no time!