Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Apollo.io's mission is to help every business to fulfill their full market potential by connecting companies with amazing solutions with those who need them most. We've built a database of 250 million business contacts and 10 million companies, and our software helps sales and marketing identify and convert their most likely potential customers. We've raised over $10 million from Silicon Valley investors such as Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, SV Angel, and Social Capital, and are profitable and continuously growing. We're headquartered in San Francisco, CA with a brilliant worldwide remote team.

Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy.

YOUR ROLE & MISSION:

We are looking for an Senior DevOps Engineer to build and scale our production environment. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience, a passion for systems engineering, automating operations, infrastructure security, and high-availability systems as well as experience in software development. We are heavily invested in Ruby on Rails, Mongo, and ElasticSearch. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You are agile enough to jump into most projects and be hungry to build so much more.

Examples of work that Software Engineers do at Apollo:

Scrape news from more than 1000+ sources every day. Apply NLP to categorize the news, and alert users based on their preference.
Design, build, and scale machine learning pipelines that analyze and score user’s data based on billions of signals that we scrape from tens of millions of websites.
Design, build, and scale complex and highly customizable analytics engines to help clients track success metrics while using our platform.
Build a phone call system that allows users to make phone calls on the platform and track their phone call history. Apply NLP on the recording to help our customer analyze their phone calls and improve performance.

COMPETENCIES/KEY TRAITS:

You move fast. Stay hungry. Ambitious.
You have a willingness to take leadership in designing and scaling our core infrastructure that will lay the foundation for the company for the next decade.
You Go above and beyond to help your team and able to become an exemplary leader
Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users

DAILY ADVENTURES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Design, build, and scale backend software services for Apollo’s distributed and highly available architecture using modern backend languages.
Implement and scale enterprise-level security infrastructure.
Use automation and configuration management tools to provision hosts in cloud hosting platforms.
Work cross-functionally with various teams at Apollo.
Participate in an on-call rotation in which the entire development team participates in, to troubleshoot performance and operational challenges.

Challenges & Projects You'll Take On:

Multi-Terabyte level database system (and growing fast!)
Backend services storing and processing tens of millions of database objects per day
Robust enterprise-level security infrastructure
Data pipelines to gather and analyze service and product usage data
Deploy and staging infrastructure that balances our speed for innovation with the need for robust testing

SKILLS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:

BS or MS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or similar
Strong experience with Linux (Ubuntu) and various types of databases. You are well-versed with MongoDB or ElasticSearch.
Experience setting up entire architectures from scratch. Interesting technologies for us: Docker, VPN, Kubernetes (strong experience with Kubernetes)
Experience with Distributed systems
Fault-tolerant and highly-available systems
Some exposure to a modern backend programming languages, preferably Ruby

Required Main Skills: Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, MongoDB or ElasticSearch Experience in Software Development (Ruby on Rails, Python etc)

A successful candidate will dive in to take ownership of problems, design practical forward-thinking solutions, and fundamentally will not accept doing things over and over by hand.

Great to Have

Understanding of best security practices
Cloud hosting such as Google, AWS etc.

WHY APOLLO:

This is a remote position available from anywhere in the world. Please only apply if you meet the minimum requirements.

Besides the competitive salary and the positive culture that promotes collaboration, learning, and excellence, as we are scaling our company, we are committed to providing the best possible environment for our engineering team. The less time our engineers spend dealing with cumbersome processes, inefficient systems, and commuting, the more time they have to solve problems and make an impact. We're a technology-first team dedicated to building the greatest engagement software available. We keep in touch with Slack and regular video conferences. You can work from home, a coffee shop or the beach as long as your work is aligned with your goals.

If this sounds interesting, we would love to hear from you! Please include whatever info you believe is relevant: resume, GitHub profile, code samples, links to personal projects, etc.