DevOps Engineer

Who We Are Bright Cellars is the monthly wine subscription startup designed to help new wine drinkers discover and define their taste in wine! We curate wines from around the world with the goal of making wine fun, accessible and educational. 

Our Mission is to inspire and educate a new generation of wine lovers by delivering a transformative, personalized wine experience.

Our Values

We are obsessed with creating a member-centric wine journey.

We value smart, sustainable growth.

We are curious and humble learners.

We cultivate a diverse, collaborative, and transparent workplace.

We identify our challenges quickly and solve them thoughtfully.

We hold each other accountable to success.

We back our intuition and experience with data-driven insights. 

We love wine and work to share that love with our members.

How Bright Cellars Works Our members join Bright Cellars by taking a 7 question-quiz to share their taste preferences. The Bright Points learning algorithm evaluates these preferences to determine the best wine matches for each member’s taste. Each month, members receive four or six unique bottles in the mail, which they are then able to rate and provide personalized feedback on their profile. Similar to Netflix’s collaborative filtering algorithm, Bright Cellars’s algorithm uses this feedback to improve members’ monthly matches going forward. 

About This Role

Our current system is maintained collectively by our engineers. In this role, you will have the opportunity to level up the current system, and standardize the architecture. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a motivated, highly collaborative, team-first group of individuals to build out the system and processes to power Bright Cellars for years to come.

What You'll Do:

• Implement systems-level infrastructure improvements to drive a high degree of reliability, scalability, and security
• Maintain and support our production applications as needed
• Identify and implement improvements to our CI / CD process (e.g. test automation frameworks and performance enhancements)
• Work with the engineering team to identify and create standards / best practices to improve the team's velocity, reduce production issues, and improve morale
• Stress test / instrument the system, identify bottlenecks, and address potential performance issues before they're actual issues
• Perform system improvements with minimal downtime and perform rollbacks as needed
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Experience We're Looking For:

• 4+ years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer or equivalent
• AWS - EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, CodeDeploy, etc.
• Docker containers (k8s a plus)
• CI/CD experience (CircleCI preferred)
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform preferred)
• Proficient in at least 1 scripting language (Python preferred)
• Strong communication skills
• Knowledge of optimizing web platforms a plus (nginx, php-fpm, CDN, ReactJS, MySQL, etc)

Who You Are:

• You’re an Innovator - Optimizing the performance of systems excites you, and you strive to automate and document as many processes as possible
• You’re Pragmatic - You are able to balance trade offs while aiming for excellence 
• You’re a Team Player - You love to collaborate closely with the team to brainstorm ideas, gather requirements, and review and improve code 
• You’re Driven - You take initiative and thrive in a startup environment
• You’re Curious - You are naturally curious and have an interest in learning new things.

Perks of Working at Bright Cellars

• Competitive total compensation offerings
• Unlimited paid vacation 
• Flexibility & work/life balance
• Medical, dental and vision insurance  
• Heavily discounted monthly wine memberships 
• Opportunity to attend wine tastings led by our resident sommelier
• Opportunity to build something incredible while being surrounded by intelligent, hardworking and motivated coworkers 

Bright Cellars is a fun, fast-growing startup with a work hard, play hard attitude. We look for smart, motivated individuals who are excited to build something incredible from the ground up!