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Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Senior DevOps Engineer, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Life is short - do something that matters!

Our mission is to accelerate and democratize the world's research because scientific discovery is based on it, and scientific discovery benefits everyone. We have over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue over the last four years.

Who we are

We are a Remote First company with an office in San Francisco, building the world’s largest network for sharing and finding academic research online. We closed $23M Series “D” round in December of 2021.

With over 188M registered users and nearly half of the world’s academics using our platform every month, we are in a unique position to disrupt the $25B academic publishing industry. Our users range from researchers, academics, industry professionals, and college students.

What we're looking for

Our ideal candidates are not only great at what they do but are also mission-driven. Ideally, you have experience with a set of engineering approaches for running better production systems - responsible for the big picture of how systems are designed for operability, how they relate to each other, and working with a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base.

What You'll Work on:

Participate in system design, redesign as we continue to grow.
Deliver Ansible playbooks and Terraform modules that describe resilient architectural components.
Contribute to best-in-class monitoring and self-healing Troubleshoot system infrastructure problems and bottlenecks and determine the best solution.
Evangelize good systems engineering practices.

Your Skills:

3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer supporting production web infrastructure at scale.
6+ years of overall software engineering experience in a development environment.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and/or a wide range of relevant work experience.
Extensive experience with AWS and Linux systems.
Strong verbal and written communications skills Solid knowledge of web architecture and systems.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Experience with one or more configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Terraform, equivalent) Familiarity with one or more time-series and tracing monitoring tools.
In-depth knowledge of one or more RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, etc.).Experience with CI automation.
Shell scripting and coding in one other language.

Bonus Points:

Experience as a Lead or Sr. Engineer supporting a high scale B2C web development platform.
Experience with Ruby on Rails at scale.
Extensive Postgres experience.
Strong knowledge of one or more NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra etc.)
Experience building and/or supporting Data Science or Business Intelligence teams.

What You'll Get:

In addition to working closely with and collaborating with our talented tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth.
Our ~95 person team, which includes ~50 Software Engineers, all value curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building a great work environment that produces great products.
We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes :
100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees that covers their spouses and dependents.
A generous Paid Time Off includes 21 paid vacation days, 11 paid company holidays, and 1 volunteer day
Annual professional development allowance & PTO
Book stipend.
Stock options.
Flexible sick days
Parental & birth parent leave - 8 fully paid weeks each
Fully paid 6-week sabbatical after 4 years of employment
Work/Life balance with flex hours
Weekly Bootcamp & yoga class
FSA accounts
Company-paid retreats
Commuter benefits
New computer hardware and accessories
WFH monthly Internet stipend
Stipend for hardware and accessories for WFH productivity setup
401K plan

Diversity and Inclusion

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Compensation

Our first-year cash compensation amount for this role is targeted at $160,000/yr to $240,000/yr in the USA. Compensation is adjusted for Canada, based on location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Our Remote Work Policy

You can work 100% remotely from anywhere in the US or Canada if you are legally living and working in the USA or a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident.

**Our core work hours are 10am-4pm Pacific Time, with a lunch break from 12-1pm, and flex hours for the rest of the day.

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