We are Narrative Science, the leader in automated narrative generation for the enterprise. Our Quill platform analyzes data from disparate sources, understands what is important to the end user and then automatically generates perfectly written narratives, customized to the intended audience, at scale.

Our goal is to quickly get people to that “aha” moment, without the need for vague interpretation or conjecture. Quill was engineered by a team of creative, intelligent, and passionate individuals- and we’re looking for another person to join our ranks.

As a Senior Cloud Software Developer, you will be designing, building, testing, and operating the infrastructure that powers Narrative Science’s natural language generation software. You will ensure that Quill is operating and performing optimally and that software is released and deployed in a streamlined manner, from development through testing to production.  This is a hands-on DevOps/software development role with a balanced amount of software and infrastructure development.

You will have a solid, practical grasp of software development and/or a thorough understanding of Linux and networking fundamentals.  This will be a central role that will directly impact the upcoming versions of our platform.

• Develop and test automation, tooling and processes to enable us to deploy, run, and scale our applications in the cloud.

• Operate and deploy services from development to production.

• Be part of the team that designs and develops solutions to improve our ability to rapidly iterate and safely deploy a complex platform.  Excitement about Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployments is a must.

• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, and performance analysis activities.

• Identify infrastructure requirements from across the organization and clients related to scaling our existing and future infrastructure

• A demonstrated capability for critical thinking and problem solving.

• Solid programming skills and experience writing production quality code.

• Strong technical leadership and negotiation skills.

• The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical personnel.

• A good working knowledge of Linux fundamentals.

• Bachelor-level Computer Science or other STEM degree.

• The continuing dedication to learn, to innovate, and to excel in a start-up atmosphere.

• Ability to handle periodic on-call duty.

• Minimum 5 years software development experience.

• Various AWS services:  EC2, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Lambda.

• Our software stack:  Python and/or bash and/or Node.js.

• Our database stack:  PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB.

• Our CI stack:  Ansible, Jenkins.

• Our purely functional package manager of choice:  Nix.

• Our monitoring and alerting stack: StatsD/CollectD/Graphite/CloudWatch/Nagios.

• Our OS of choice:  CentOS.

• Experience working in both public and private cloud environments.

• Experience working with configuration tools and languages such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible.

• Experience scaling distributed systems.

• A deep understanding of Linux systems administration and/or low-level networking concepts.

• Knowledge of build and deploy best practices.