Senior DevOps Engineer

ABOUT US

Sense is a diverse, collaborative team tackling one of the most universal challenges in todayʼs workforce. With a mission to change the way companies engage with talent, weʼre creating a better experience for employers, recruiters, and candidates. Your work at Sense will impact millions of people around the globe and will be instrumental in evolving an entire industry. Join us in shaping the workforce of the future! Founded in 2015, Sense is a high-growth HR Tech SaaS startup with offices in the Bay Area and Bangalore. It has 300+ team members, serves 700+ customers, and has grown 100% year-over-year since launch. We have raised $90M in funding, backed by GV (Google), SoftBank, Accel, and Avataar Ventures. As a part of the Sense team, youʼll play an active role in shaping and developing our products and processes. Our founders are lifelong entrepreneurs with a history of building, scaling, and successfully exiting large companies. At Sense, your career goals will be supported through active mentorship and learning and development opportunities. Weʼre an experienced team and looking for great people to add to our team.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Responsibilities

• As part of the SRE team you will be owning and managing the infrastructure (Compute, Data Stores, Cloud Services, etc) that power Sense Application and Services.
• Devise solutions that address performance, scale and architectural issues, that arise as the Business and Engineering complexity grows.
• Heavy focus on automating all aspects of Cloud Operations, such as Infrastructure (InfraAsCode), Configuration Management, Monitoring & Alerting, Performance Insights, Infra Costs, and so on.
• Ensure monitoring coverage of all Production services, and be part of On call rotation to monitor and address critical issues, with a focus on actions that result in long-term remediation.

SKILLS AND EXPERTISE

• 3+ years hands-on experience building and maintaining modern Infrastructure and Backend Services like Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Mysql, Postgres, etc in a cloud based environment, such as AWS.
• Experience administrating and maintaining Linux systems serving Production traffic and workloads, with strong focus on networking and system fundamentals. Container technologies is a plus.
• Strong scripting and high-level programming knowledge and experience specifically to systems and related tooling
• Strong understanding of major infrastructure components, such as Load balancers, Web Servers, Databases, Queueing systems, etc.
• Good understanding of modern distributed systems, their architecutre, trade offs and operability concerns and solutions.
• Capable of multi-tasking and be willing to adapt to changes quickly in a startup environment
• Being able to own a project end-to-end while being proactive about updates/blockers, with getting things done (GTD) attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient with AWS IaaS products (EC2, VPC, S3, etc)
• Is proficient and has hands-on experience working with Python and Ansible
• Is proficeint with container technologies beyond Docker, such as Podman, and Container Orchestration systems such as ECS, or Nomad.