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!

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 .