Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote or San Francisco
Company
In order to keep climate change to 1.5°C, we’ll need 30% of global GDP (all of the energy generation and transportation) to run on batteries by 2035.
Zitara Technologies (YCombinator S20) builds predictive battery management software for transportation and energy customers with large deployments. Our customers operate >$100M deployments of batteries in satellites, EVs, and renewable energy storage installations.
Our team brings top researchers in physics-based battery algorithms together with seasoned software engineers to build safety-critical firmware and large-scale machine learning systems. We bring with us decades of experience from companies like Tesla, Facebook, and Google.
Role
Zitara's battery management software spans compute and operations environments that include battery hardware labs, data and machine learning platforms, high availability web services, and real time embedded software. We're looking for a DevOps engineer to design and manage the infrastructure that drives this broad, multidisciplinary engineering program. If you join us, you'll be responsible for identifying key technologies that enable Zitara's internal R&D and external products, developing interfaces and integrations with our engineering teams, and ensuring high reliability of our services.
The ideal candidate will have experience with a broad range of engineering problems, and using software and IT services to support engineering solutions in creative ways, while managing systems to maintain high reliability even in challenging situations.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain our AWS cloud infrastructure
- Implement and maintain automation pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure that applications are built and deployed efficiently.
- Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure high availability and performance.
- Implement and maintain security measures to protect our systems and data.
- Develop and maintain documentation for our infrastructure and automation processes.
- Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of DevOps experience
- Expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure technologies such as RDS, EC2, and VPC.
- Experience managing complex AWS environments with Terraform.
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python or Bash.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Nagios, Prometheus, or DataDog.
- Knowledge of cloud security best practices
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with data platform and machine learning systems and technologies
- Familiarity with C build tools and toolchains, especially Bazel
- Experience developing production application or infrastructure software in Python
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and equity
- Health, Dental, and Vision care for you and your family
- 401K savings plan
- Unlimited vacation policy
- An altruistic company mission
- Excellent colleagues that are interested in your happiness and growth
- Annual Base Salary $150,000 to $190,000