Sr DevOps Engineer (offline)

We're looking for candidates who are as passionate about industrial IoT and energy storage as we are, and have the drive required to bring new energy storage systems to market!

~~~~~~~~~What You’ll Do~~~~~~~~~

You’ll be managing, enhancing, and scaling the platform, which turns supermarkets into an intelligent energy management service. You will bring our cutting-edge physical modeling, machine learning, and energy management algorithms to life, creating a real-world impact on our customers’ energy savings as well as promoting responsible energy management to combat climate change - all at enterprise scale.

You will work directly with the CTO, the Director of Software, and the software team on the following strategic initiatives:

~ Manage, enhance, and scale the platform. Generate and maintain best practices; design and implement new features; expand to enterprise-scale capability and robustness.
~ Create workflows to quickly and reliably release sophisticated software at scale while reducing downtime and risk, from the IoT edge to data analysis services and web apps.
~ Engineer reliability and scale into our software, moving us from handfuls to thousands of customer sites (blue/green development, staging environments, etc).
~ Leverage the skills of our unique and exceptional hardware/software cross-functional staff to create innovative solutions to physical engineering challenges.
~ Be the subject matter expert on all things DevOps. Provide technical leadership to a growing software team.
~ Directly help develop key software services from the IoT edge to the cloud.
~ Generate metrics to drive beautiful and intuitive displays of energy savings data in our web apps.


~~~~~~~~~Who You Are~~~~~~~~~

~ 5+ years experience implementing DevOps methodology.
~ Interested in learning and contributing to a wide variety of software projects, including web backend, IoT edge, creative data analysis, and control using machine learning algorithms.
~ Excited about writing excellent code and applying software best practices.
~ An enthusiastic self-starter who can work with minimal supervision and generates innovative solutions to tough problems.
~ Passionate about technology innovation, product development, industrial IoT, and energy storage.


~~~~~~~~~Key skills/technologies~~~~~~~~~

Docker (containers, compose, orchestration, etc.)
Kubernetes
Infrastructure automation (terraform)
Web service building blocks (ex. load balancers, haproxy, nginx, VPCs, etc)
AWS (ELB, ALB, VPC, Autoscaling Groups, Route53, IAM, RDS, IoT, Lambda)
Web security (SSL, authentication schemes, certificate management, VPN, etc)
Service monitoring and incident management
Databases: Timeseries (influxdb), noSQL (mongodb), object storage
Deployment workflows: CI/CD (circleCI)
TDD frameworks (nosetests, pytest, unittest, etc)
Linux, bash, git
REST API design and documentation


~~~~~~~~~Nice to have skills/technologies~~~~~~~~~

Basic software development, preferably in Python
Rancher (1.x and 2.x)
CoreOS (ignition + systemd)
Spot instances (spotinst.com)
Sentry (8.x)
Web service software development; profiling & refactoring (Python)
Exposure to data processing, modeling, and analytics (Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, Matplotlib, Grafana 5+, Jupyter notebooks)


~~~~~~~~~What You Get~~~~~~~~~

~ “Honor system” PTO policy (no specified limits), flexible work schedule
~ Personal laptop with appropriate specs to perform your work (MacBook Pro or similar)
~ Private health & dental insurance
~ Remote work
~ Accounting and legal support required to file taxes


We’re a startup. The work is demanding, but we’ll make every effort to find an arrangement that works.