Aspire is a leading provider of influencer marketing software and services for social commerce at scale. Since 2014, Aspire has helped brands build and manage relationships with millions of influencers, inspiring marketers to think bigger, plan smarter, and deliver outsized value. Brands and creators use Aspire to find and vet each other, activate influencer marketing campaigns of any size, and put the magic of branded content to work at scale. As a recognized leader by Forrester Research, Aspire has paid out over $100M to creators, and is trusted by over 800 top brands from fashion to fitness and everything in between.
We’re growing across the board - and we're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to join our distributed remote Engineering team! With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Aspire is the perfect place to develop your skills in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment.
The RoleWe're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer who can drive improvements to our cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and operational practices. This role requires a technically deep leader who can work across infrastructure, automation, and application environments to help our engineers quickly build and ship high quality products. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you'll report directly to our Head of Product & Engineering and will have significant influence over our development processes, infrastructure strategy, and technical roadmap while working with an open and collaborative team.
Technologies used for this role:- Infrastructure/DevOps: Google Kubernetes Engine, CircleCI, Helm, Terraform, Docker, Google Cloud Tasks, Google App Engine
- Database/Caching: PostgreSQL (Google Cloud SQL), Google Cloud Datastore, Redis, Google Memcache
- Languages/Frameworks: Python, NodeJS, Typescript, ReactJS, Express, Django, NextJS
- Monitoring: Datadog, Google Error Monitoring, Stackdriver Logging
- Development Tools: Github, Webpack, Jira, VS Code
- Testing: Playwright, Jest, Pytest, React Testing Library
- Authentication: Auth0
- Leading infrastructure strategy and driving DevOps best practices across the engineering organization
- Helping engineers build reliable products by improving infrastructure and application monitoring, alerting, and tooling
- Building tools and frameworks that help developers better understand and debug their systems and data
- Investigating and resolving issues and outages related to uptime and performance of our infrastructure and databases
- Ensuring that Aspire follows technical best practices and maintains secure, reliable, and scalable systems
- Mentoring and guiding engineers across teams on DevOps principles and infrastructure best practices
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or related software engineering roles
- Demonstrated experience leading DevOps functions or infrastructure teams
- Deep expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and build automation, with a strong understanding of how application development ties into infrastructure
- Able to support engineers in US/CA from 9am-1pm PST in addition to engineers working in IST
- A polyglot engineer who can easily work with many different languages and frameworks, and can quickly become an expert with new technologies and systems
- A true team-player; someone that looks for opportunities to collaborate and mentor
- Played a critical role in architecting infrastructure and development environments at a startup from the ground up
- Deep experience with scalable architecture and a variety of software design patterns
- A track record of driving organization-wide adoption of DevOps principles and engineering best practices
- Work-Life Balance
- Flexible work from home policy
- Generous paid leave and holidays
- Personalized career planning sessions
Aspire is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Please apply to this role if you feel you are a good fit, regardless of your race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other perceived limiting factor. We welcome applicants from all walks of life.
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