Custom Ink, the leader in custom apparel for groups and communities, is all about bringing people together. That's what inspires our innovative online platform, world-class customer support, and award-winning work environment. With 1,600+ team members (“Inkers”), we are passionate about the success and well-being of our team and have earned frequent recognition as a top workplace from such organizations as Fortune Magazine and The Washington Post. Our customers are counting on us to come through for them, and that’s important to all Inkers - no matter what role they’re in. How you’ll make a difference: We seek a friendly, reliable, and highly motivated individual with strong communication skills to join the Web Operations Team.  As a member of this team, you will provide our eCommerce and Operations Technology groups with IT Operations support for our external sites along with internal facing applications.  You must be a positive and proactive problem-solver with the ability to think on your feet while providing excellent customer service. What you’ll do: As an WebOps Engineer you will provide staging and production support, and work closely with Software Engineering teams to maintain our current applications and roll out new ones in a public cloud environment. Daily tasks will include troubleshooting and resolving issues with Linux and Windows instances, and application availability and performance. You’ll use tools such as Chef, New Relic APM and Infrastructure, Nagios, GitHub, and the AWS console. Additional tasks will include managing a JIRA ticket queue, monitoring resource utilization, participating in on-call rotation, and responding to and resolving system alerts. Self-motivation and ability to learn on the job is vital to your success.  You will be fanatical about customer satisfaction, possess the ability and desire to master new and relevant technologies, and be able to effectively translate these into your daily responsibilities. In this role you should be comfortable taking ownership over small projects with minimal direction.  What we’re looking for: This position requires flexibility to work additional hours and be on-call when necessary.  In addition, the ideal candidate will have: 3-5 years of IT/DevOps experience Academic background in IT/Computer Science is preferred Experience with Linux and Windows Server is required; a background of Chef/Puppet is preferred ( Ansible or SaltStack acceptable) Basic understanding of managing in an IaaS/PaaS is required; familiarity of Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud is preferred Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team, including on-call and after-hour support Experience as primary point of contact and demonstrated expertise with end-user Experience with system implementations and process improvements Effective communication and problem-solving skills Technical Skills: This positions requires journeyman level skills in most of these technologies: Database administration of one platform (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL) Deployment software such as Jenkins, Autotomy and TravisCI and Git Scripting familiarity in Bash, Powershell, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript and/or Python Monitor and alarming software to include Nagios, Zabbix, NewRelic and Sumologic/Splunk Knowledge of Ruby on Rails, nginx/apache is preferred In addition, you must share our company values—practicing the Golden Rule, taking Ownership and driving and embracing Innovation.

Toptal is one of the most innovative and rapidly expanding tech start-ups from Silicon Valley. With backing from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Adam D’Angelo, our platform is the fastest growing labor marketplace in the history of the Internet—connecting thousands of elite engineers all over the world. In the last four years, Toptal has become the #1 choice for tech companies requiring top-tier engineering talent and for the top 3% of freelancers looking for their next challenge. We are looking for an experienced and passionate DevOps Engineer with a background in systems, programming, and networking. To excel in this role, you must be a detail-oriented perfectionist capable of monitoring infrastructure and operations to ensure high availability and performance of web applications and services. This position will require working on development, networking, security, and system administration while working with development and product teams to maintain the reliability of existing and new features as they're tested and deployed, as well as with infrastructure teams on efficient automation, scaling, and security of our infrastructure and network. Benefits: Freedom to choose your own schedule and choose from a variety of hourly, part-time, and full-time projects. The ability to work from wherever you want. Access to a thriving, collaborative community of talented peers. Invitations to frequent Toptal events going on around the world, including dinners, tech talks, conferences, and more. Extremely competitive compensation. Responsibilities: Automate provisioning, deployment, and scaling of software infrastructure. Work with other teams to ensure testing is automated and streamlined. Make sure services are dynamically scalable, highly, available and fault tolerant. Develop a monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection framework for our services. Analyze system performance and devise solutions for bottlenecks and other issues. Make sure all systems have a highly secure and up-to-date configuration. Work with developers on troubleshooting and bug investigation. Requirements: Ability to learn and use a wide array of open source technologies and tools. Intimate knowledge of Linux debugging, scripting, and configuration management. Experience with writing infrastructure-as-code. Experience with automated build systems. Advanced knowledge of source control management systems (git). Familiarity with security principles and networking. Strong experience with continuous integration and delivery. Ability to work on large multi-team projects with a high level of independence. Be open to receiving feedback.

ABOUT US At   Close.io   we’re building the sales communication platform of the future. We’ve built a next-generation CRM that eliminates manual data entry and helps sales teams close more deals.  We are hiring engineers to join our DevOps team to help take our platform to the next level by adding new features, providing better performance, and even higher reliability.  We are a ~30 person entirely remote team (with ~13 engineers) that is profitable and building a product our customers love. Our backend   tech stack   currently consists of Python Flask/Gunicorn web apps with our   TaskTiger   scheduler handling many of the backend asynchronous processing tasks.  Our data stores include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Redis.  Our infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like RDS and ElastiCache as well as EC2 instances managed by Puppet. These EC2 instances run everything from our databases to our Kubernetes clusters. ABOUT YOU We're looking for a full-time DevOps Engineering Manager / Team Lead to join our core team who has significant experience in building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure and backend services at scale.  In this Team Lead role, you will be doing * both*   hands-on technical work yourself * and*   managing/leading a small remote team (2-3 people) of exceptional Senior SRE/DevOps Engineers. Come help us with projects like... Building out our Kubernetes infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new k8s features Scale our Elasticsearch and MongoDB clusters to support our data growth Tune our MySQL and PostgreSQL databases Improve our public   Close.io API   performance and resiliency Tighten security across our infrastructure Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure Enhance our Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) logging stack And leadership responsibilities like… Being responsible for the happiness, well-fare, and productivity of the DevOps team; do regular 1:1s. Leading the strategy, roadmap, and goals for the DevOps team Coordinating with other engineers on current and upcoming infrastructure needs for Product and overall business goals Having the primary responsibility for the stability, performance, and security of our infrastructure Hiring/growing the team as needed, while keeping a high quality bar You should... Have 2+ years managing & leading an engineering team, including experience recruiting/hiring great engineers Have a servant leadership attitude with the ability to foster a collaborative & positive energy work environment,   especially   when PagerDuty is calling Have real world experience building scalable systems, working with large data sets, and troubleshooting various back-end challenges under pressure Have significant experience with *nix, Python, bash, and Puppet or similar backend systems and frameworks Experience working with large databases running on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Mongo Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Puppet, or other scripting languages Have experience with Docker containers and microservices Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure Why work with us? Our story and team retreat video! Stellar team reviews on Glassdoor Work remotely and create your own schedule (we believe in trust and autonomy) Enjoy face-to-face time with the whole team on all-expense paid retreats 2x year. Experience building a truly successful SaaS company with a dedicated, small  team where you can have a huge impact Above market salary Excellent medical  & dental coverage, including 99% paid premiums and HSA option (**US residents) Matching 401k (**US residents) Interested in DevOps but think this Team Lead role isn't the right fit? View our   SRE/DevOps Engineering   role or all our   other positions .

Software Engineer  - blockchain, infrastructure. Be our 1st Engineer that builds Infrastructure! (Note: we are not offering relocation assistance, apologies). A little bit about us… We're a well-financed FinTech start-up located in Seattle. We've spun out of our corporate parent and we are building our team - currently we are 10 employees. We are looking for a Senior level Software Engineer for Infrastructure to help us deliver our game changing product/platform. We’re moving past the old way of thinking and are creating a seamless universal platform to bring the exchange of funds up to the speed of the Internet. What you’ll be doing: ·       Working with the development team and ensure sound systems and infrastructure are in place for our production environment in V1. You’ll be collaborating with the team to develop a game changing product ·       Designing and building tools to automate our systems and log and monitor a production test environment. ·       Infrastructure provisioning and management. ·       Working with the co-founder/CTO and engineering team to make sure the ‘guts’ of our development environment is reliable and ‘automated’ for our platform. The Sr. Software Engineer for Infrastructure is responsible for ensuring we have a solid infrastructure that helps our engineering team ship a quality product on time. What you bring to us: ·       5+ Years of experience developing software systems in a production environment ·       Experience automating cloud deployments (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.). ·       Significant experience building and deploying software on Linux. ·       Strong scripting experience or experience with any modern programming language. ·       Experience building products from ground up/V1. ·       Experience thriving in small teams. ·       A great ability to do what’s needed now and plan for future versions. ·       Platform, cloud, and networking experience as a developer. ·       A Bachelor’s in Computer Science or EE or equivalent. ·       Your smarts! You’re a terrific fit if: ·       You want to work in an environment with blockchain and you are happy being the 1st Infra Engineer in the company. ·       You have familiarity with any of the tools we use (Terraform, Packer, Docker, Gitlab, Rust, Typescript) ·       You have strong familiarity with a modern deployment automation tool such as Terraform, Ansible, etc. ·       You have experience working with distributed systems at scale (1000+ transaction per second). ·       You have start-up experience and you really want to work on V1. ·       You have tenacity to do it right the first time and you have the propensity to act! ·       You view software development and shipping product as your craft and not just a job. ·       You’re versatile – you can effectively work across the technology stack. ·       You learn at hyper speed! What we offer: Competitive start-up salary. Full benefits package. Potential for equity. Fun place to work with smart people! Collaborative environment and a small team, currently we’re less than 10. You can bring your dog to work if you like. We’re just getting started!