DevOps Engineer

About Elevar

Elevar, recently acquired by Buxton, is a leading SaaS company empowering online merchants to build a robust data foundation. We simplify server-side event tracking, providing merchants with actionable insights to fuel smarter decisions, accelerate growth, and achieve their goals. This exciting acquisition combines Elevar’s expertise in online analytics with Buxton’s retail analytics prowess, creating a powerhouse in the industry.

About the role

Join our dynamic team of 4 engineers as a DevOps Engineer and play a pivotal role in scaling our application infrastructure. You’ll focus on infrastructure, monitoring, and delivery, empowering your fellow engineers to focus on cutting-edge product development. We utilize serverless functions, Kubernetes, CloudSQL, Redis (Memorystore), and Dataflow cloud services on the Google Cloud Platform. Our application utilizes Typescript, React, Node, and Python technologies.

About our app

Our app is split into two pieces: a user-facing app and a data pipeline.

• The user-facing app is a React app that uses a Python backend (API first). It provides our customers with the ability to manage their accounts, configure their tracking, and view reports.
• The data pipeline is made up of serverless functions that receive thousands of hits per second. It enriches, filters, and transforms our merchants’ data into payloads that various marketing channels can ingest. This will be the primary focus of this role.

What you’ll do

• Collaborating with a fully remote team to seamlessly scale our application.
• Championing developer experience (DX) by implementing initiatives like ephemeral environments, automated tasks, and streamlined deployments.
• Optimizing infrastructure by identifying bottlenecks, implementing security initiatives, selecting optimal cloud services, and minimizing costs.
• Provisioning infrastructure, migrating from manually configurationed services to Infrastructure as Code (IAC).
• Monitoring systems, conducting load testing, and contributing to product roadmaps with an infrastructure-centric lens.

How we work

• Our workload is divided into releases that vary in length depending on the work contained in each release. Most of our releases take about a month to complete.
• Each release includes a maintenance cycle where app improvements and refactors take place.
• The release is a time of focus. Distractions are limited during this time.
• Our application is all contained in a monorepo so that types and logic can be shared across workspaces.

TLDR

We are a small team looking for our first DevOps team member. We’ve kept our infrastructure in check up to this point (no big mess!), but our minds are occupied with product-related enhancements and we need someone solely focused on infrastructure. We have a wishlist of DX items!

We deal with a high volume of data through our app. We use serverless and big data services to handle this.

Requirements

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in cloud services
• 2+ years of experience in Google Cloud Platform
• Familiarity with high-throughput systems and/or data pipelines.
• Ability to work in a unix environment
• Open and transparent communication
• US Resource with the ability to work preferably in/around the EST time zone
• This job requires US work authorization.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience automating ephemeral environment creation that relies on cloud services
• Experience with proxying via Cloudflare and using Edge workers
• Experience with data engineering (Batch vs streaming processors, BigQuery, etc)
• Terraform experience

Benefits

This is a fully remote role. Although Elevar has team members all over the world, the preferred location/time zone for this position is EST to best collaborate with other members of the immediate team.

Why Elevar?

• A targeted base salary range of $100,000 to $120,000 and bonus eligible.
• Comprehensive benefits package effective the first day of the month following hire date with several company-paid offerings.
• Quarterly enrollment 401(k) with 50% company match up to employee’s 6% contribution, vested in only 3 years.
• Front-loaded PTO and 9 paid holidays.
• A commitment to diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, as we are dedicated to providing a safe and secure work environment for all Elevar and Buxton Company, LLC stakeholders. Please note that while we value global perspectives, we are unfortunately unable to sponsor work visas at this time. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Our commitment to diversity

At Elevar, we believe that diversity of thought, background and experience makes us stronger. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We value an environment of belonging, where diverse perspectives are celebrated, and each individual has the support and resources to thrive.

EEO statement

Elevar is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Elevar is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.