Sr DevOps Engineer (FTE) - Direct Hire

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ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS :

The hiring process for this role involves completing your Braintrust profile, applying directly to the role on Braintrust, and undergoing a one-time screening to ensure you meet our vetted talent specifications.

After this, the hiring team will contact you directly if they believe you are a suitable match.

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• JOB TYPE : Employee Direct Hire Position (no agencies / C2C - see notes below)
• LOCATION : United States and Canada only - PST Full day overlap
• SALARY RANGE : $140k $170k / yr
• ESTIMATED DURATION : 40hr / week - Long term

Total compensation includes base salary + generous equity package. Final compensation based on experience and qualifications.

What you’ll be working on

Company Overview

VersusGame is a prediction game where you get paid for being right. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help design, build, and operate cross-platform web and mobile applications.

You will be working with an experienced global cross-functional team to build and launch awesome user experiences for the players as well as the creators hosting the games.

We are looking for engineers with a strong acumen for producing and operating high performance APIs running on Kubernetes in AWS.

Experience with CI / CD on Gitlab, Terraform and application monitoring with Datadog is a big plus!

What you’ll get to do :

Design, build and continuously optimize the technology stack (cloud, monitoring, CI / CD, paging etc.) powering a best-in-class customer experience

Understand business goals behind every feature creating solutions that launch amazing customer experience

Build secure, performant, scalable Infrastructure for the rapid release of high-quality software

Work side by side with a multi-disciplinary, diverse team to make meaningful decisions together

Develop broad business skills and experiences

Become obsessed with the customer and the relevant user journey data that informs strategy for the business as a whole

Be lean in how you operate, always improving, always aligned to the bigger picture

A deploy anywhere infrastructure that just works’ and is highly available and repeatable

Lead the development of our next-generation data infrastructure to support complex real-time data pipelines, machine learning workflows, large scale mobile and web applications

Develop our testing infrastructure for load, stress, and performance testing

Work directly with our engineering team as the lead on best practices for deploying, developing and scaling our entire technology stack

Rapidly prototype new technologies do demonstrate how they can be applied to our problem sets and help guide future technology choices

Configuration management, containerization, and management of our full stack of mobile applications, web applications, data infrastructure, machine learning infrastructure

What you bring to the table :

8+ years of DevOps experience - or relevant experience (as backend engineer, liveops engineer, etc.)

Strong experience working with AWS cloud platforms - 5+ years minimum

Strong experience working with Terraform

Strong experience working with Kubernetes

4+ years of experience with Node.js, TypeScript and NestJS.

5+ years of experience with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB

An understanding of platform, application and data security

A deep understanding of Authentication and Authorization (ideally; OIDC, oAuth2, Auth0)

Experience developing complex applications in an agile environment as part of a multi-disciplinary, diverse team of engineers, designers, product experts, marketers and strategists

Experience with modern web application development, including build tools, testing and CI / CD (ideally : GitHub Actions)

Experience with designing serverless API architectures with an emphasis on scalability, performance, security, and extensibility

Working knowledge of security best practices, specifically related to PII

Excitement, energy, and strong people skills including excellent communication capabilities

A nimble approach to thinking strategically while rolling up your sleeves and getting great work done

Experience in a startup or venture-like operating model preferred

Minimum 5 years experience working on complex infrastructure in a large scale setting

Strong Knowledge of containers / serverless management / configuration management at scale

Strong knowledge of distributed systems and clustered computing

Strong knowledge of Linux System Design, MacOS, iOS architectures

Strong Knowledge of Networking both on prem and in the cloud and on containers

Strong Knowledge of Complex job and workflow management technologies

Strong Knowledge of GPU infrastructures for accelerated computations

Experience with MLOps or experience in machine learning is a major bonus

Previous experience leading the development of core infrastructure

You are great in ambiguous situations and prefer it to be that way

You are willing to take responsibility for you work and have a heightened sense of ownership

You iterate quickly, believe in constant and consistent improvement, and continuous learning.

Excellent communication skills and take pride in your ability to communicate and distill complex topics into succinct explanations.

Apply Now!

Notes :

Our employers all have varying legal and geographic requirements for their roles, they trust Braintrust to find them the talent that meet their unique specifications.

For that reason, this role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC / corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

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