Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Company Description

At Shef, we are building a marketplace for home cooks. We believe in providing the shefs in our community (refugees, immigrants, stay-at-home parents, retirees) the opportunity to make a meaningful income by doing what they love! We also believe that every person should have access to a wholesome, home-cooked meal at an affordable price. Building a community devoted to economic empowerment and cultural inclusivity -- that's why we started Shef.

As one of TechCrunch's "favorite YC startups" backed by prominent Silicon Valley VCs and investors -- we have a ton of exciting work ahead of us! 

Forbes covers Shef

Job Responsibilities

In this role, you will build platform infrastructure and tooling to take Shef to web scale. You will lead the efforts to improve our CI/CD pipelines, own our telemetry and alerting, as well as help build a platform for product features that scales. If we succeed, you will have fundamentally changed how people purchase food and the variety of healthy, affordable, and authentic food that they have access to. This role reports directly to the CTO.

• Build a world class CI/CD pipeline using the latest technologies. Let's get to sub-minute deploys!

• Develop monitoring and alerting systems utilizing modern best practices

• Design self-healing infrastructure

• Debug intricate production issues

• Develop tools for usage by development and QA teams

• Establish triage and incident response processes

• Improve service reliability through testing, root cause analysis, and postmortems

• Solve availability, reliability, and latency issues across the stack

• Participate in 24x7 On-Call rotation

• Reporting directly to CTO 

Basic Qualifications

-3+ years of DevOps/SRE experience

• Experience with logging and monitoring tools (SumoLogic, SignalFX, DataDog, Splunk) and designing alerting systems

• Solid experience with administration of various AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, IAM, and more)

• Prior experience with CI/CD and associated toolsets (Circle, Jenkins, Codefresh, etc)

• Strong grasp of deployment automation and configuration management on AWS (Terraform preferred)

• Solid understanding of systems and application design

• Skilled at clearly articulating design ideas while being receptive to constructive criticism

• Never ending desire to learn and improve

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with GraphQL, Typescript, and Node

• Good knowledge of relational databases, such as PostgreSQL or MySQL

• Contribution to Open Source

• Self-starter who is smart, driven, and hardworking

• Excited about Shef's mission of unlocking the home-cooked food industry

• Experience working on food & restaurant products or online marketplaces

Disclaimers

- Salary and equity benefits for this role are highly competitive and commensurate with experience. Shef is an equal opportunity employer.

• Shef is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

 - For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation during the interview process, please advise your company contact.