[Hiring] Senior Software Developer, DevOps @Hootsuite

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. Based out of British Columbia, you will report into the Senior Manager, DevOps.

• Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts
• Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based Linux infrastructure
• Participate in a flexible on-call rotation
• Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
• Design and build our infrastructure platform
• Identify and implement new platform features
• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
• Operate our developer experience and production application environments
• Diagnose and repair our distributed systems
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
• Enable development teams
• Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
• Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role
• Track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
• Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale
• Understanding of SaaS software development practice; ideally experience working on a SaaS product
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure
• Experience with operating, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure
• Working knowledge of Linux systems administration, including troubleshooting system-level issues, networking (L3-L7) and basic monitoring is preferred
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results
• Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change

Who You Are

• Solution seeker: focused on tackling new challenges and solving problems
• Lifelong learner: growth mindset – eager to learn, experiment, and provide feedback
• Resilient adapter: thoughtful and calm approach in the face of change
• Intentional collaborator: builds positive working relationships across the business
• Critical challenger: asks difficult questions to achieve the best results
• Active communicator: listens actively and communicates clearly and inclusively
• Integrated thinker: understands how team’s work drives broader organizational goals
• Accountable owner: takes pride in work and is reliable for outcomes
• Bar-raiser: helps the team grow and succeed beyond expectations

Benefits

• Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Pay Range

Canada Pay Range For This Role: $115,400 — $161,600 CAD

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