Development Operations Engineer

ActiveHours; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free drinks and snacks

Catered lunch on Fridays

Job summary

ActiveHours is looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to enhance platform automation and site reliability in a collaborative environment. The role involves automating key systems, improving visibility through metrics, and troubleshooting critical problems.

You'll join a passionate team, working closely with engineers dedicated to changing financial futures. If you have 5+ years of relevant experience and want to make an impact, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, systems admin, or related role.
• Proficient in writing code for automating infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead automation efforts for platform operations.
• Create and follow site incident reports.
• Communicate between teams to resolve issues.

Skills

Automation

System reliability

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Code writing

Job description

Activehours is reinventing the way people get paid by giving them immediate access to the money they’ve earned. We’re looking for passionate hackers, thinkers, and innovators to push our product even further. We celebrate victory, don’t shy from failure, and are always learning.

Join our tight-knit team in a highly collaborative environment, where you’ll help shape the next generation of our platform from inception to production. Your code will help people access their pay and change their financial futures. If that sounds like your dream job, we want to hear from you.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to lead the way in our platform automation and site reliability. Working closely with a small team, the ideal candidate will make big decisions on the future of Activehours. You will be expected to lend your experience to shaping, defining, and tweaking all of our key systems as we scale beyond hundreds of thousands of users. Based in Silicon Valley, this position reports directly to the VP of Engineering.

Qualifications

Skills & Requirements

• Smart: You have a broad skillset and learn new technologies quickly
• Passionate: You’re driven to build tools that impact people’s lives
• Collaborative: You excel working both within a team and cross-functionally with other teams
• Loyal: You will take up arms (Nerf guns) to defend your teammates against attackers
• Learner: you’re not afraid to learn from failure and tell others about your mistakes

What you’ll do

• Automate everything
• Continuously improve our visibility into our systems and applications with advanced monitoring, metrics and log analytics
• Identify root causes on critical problems throughout the platform & take steps to resolve them
• Create & follow up on site incident reports and see them through to resolution
• Communicate across third party services to resolve day-to-day issues and relay updates to the team
• Build and deploy tools to ensure the health and reliability of Activehours systems
• Architect & manage product release workflow & live deployments with continuous delivery system
• Experiment with technologies and share learnings with the team to push our tech-forward mentality

5+ years combined experience as software engineer, software engineer in test, systems administrator, site reliability engineer or any combination of roles.

You are proficient at writing code and do so in order to automate infrastructure, improve system reliability and optimize continuous delivery pipelines.

Additional Information

We're a group of passionate and experienced developers split between Cincinnati and Palo Alto. Our Cincinnati team has a strong background in financial services and back-end development, while our Palo Alto team is focused on mobile development, growth hacking, and data processing and analytics. We collaborate throughout the day on via Slack, FaceTime and Hangouts. We work in a very collaborative and fun environment, free drinks and snacks, lunch catered in on Fridays.