Remote Python DevOps Engineer

Remote Python DevOps Our Company is a fast-growth, profitable SaaS startup located in San Francisco. Led by experts in both technology and elder care, Our Company is the innovative software solution for home care management. We are a leader in the industry and are dedicated to helping home care agencies manage and grow their businesses as well as improving the lives of thousands of seniors. We have a very friendly, supportive culture that loves to "wow!" our clients, and win in the market. We believe in a small development/ops team where each member has significant room for contributing and making a difference. We expect each team member to pay attention to detail and thrive by producing outstanding work. What You Will Be Doing We are looking for a senior Python and DevOps developer with at least 5 years of experience who enjoys solving complex problems in elegant ways. The ideal candidate firmly believes in TDD, significant systems administration experience, and has a wide range of experience producing solid solutions to a variety of problems. The opportunity will be to work on several of the following projects and more:

• Build and maintain a multizone and multiregion failover infrastructure with the goal of very high availability.
• Be instrumental in designing and managing solutions to handle at least 8% monthly growth in traffic.
• A realtime alerting framework for sending out notifications to users based on different application events.
• Designing and architecting a solution for moving relational data into ElasticSearch for working with big data, enabling rapid reporting, and performing predictive analytics.

All of these problems will have immediate impact on 1000s of users who are providing top-notch home care to 100,000s of seniors. If any of those problems sound interesting to you and you would enjoy having an opportunity to impact users in a fulfilling way by solving them, please get in touch! This is a fulltime, remote position. Or, if you are in San Francisco we would prefer you to be part of our office team. What You Need for this Position Required qualifications:

• 5+ years working with Python
• 3+ years *nix administration experience
• Worked with SaltStack, Chef, or similar
• Experience working with and administering large PostgreSQL databases
• Experience administering RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc
• Familiar with Git or Mercurial
• A proven record and passion for TDD
• Ambition to make things awesome, not just good enough
• A hunger to learn and grow in your craft

Bonus qualifications:

• Django experience
• Apache Zookeeper ESB architecture
• REST API design and implementation experience, preferably the Django REST Framework
• Prior remote work experience, if applying to work remotely

What's In It for You

We offer

• Competitive salary
• Stock options
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Inspirational and enthusiastic company culture
• Opportunity to have a direct impact on the lives of our users
• A unique opportunity to "feel good about what you do"

Top Reasons to Work with Us Better people's lives daily! Apply now! For this position you must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor for this position.