Sr. Software Development Engineer, Engineering Excellence (DevOps) - Highspot

Job Title: Sr. Software Development Engineer, Engineering Excellence (DevOps)
Job Location: Seattle
Job Listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/highspot/8fc9f360-3cc3-4513-a672-e3fc1eb27c9e
Job Description: About Highspot
Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.

About the Role
We’re very proud of our customer loyalty and our rapid growth. Concurrent with this growth is the need to scale our platform and improve our infrastructure in a fast-paced environment to improve our productivity and engineering excellence. We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to help build our platform.

Our ideal candidate should have strong technical skills as an engineer and architect; has a track record of building and supporting large scale software on public cloud providers such as AWS and Azure; is value-driven and cares deeply about culture; is self-managed, curious, and resourceful.
What You'll Do
Design and implement new CI/CD infrastructure and tools to improve developer workflow and productivity.
Design and implement services on Kubernetes to support the Highspot workloads.
Design and implement processes to enhance the cloud infrastructure governance and improve access management of cloud resources.
Author high-quality runbooks and technical documentation.
Join the on-call rotation to handle critical production issues.
Your Background
8+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, not including internships/co-ops.
Proficiency in at least one of the modern programming languages: Java, Python, Go
Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and other CNCF technologies.
Proficiency with CI/CD technologies and IaC technologies.
Proficiency in using observability tools to investigate production issues.
Extensive experience managing and maintaining cloud infrastructure such as load balancer, API gateway, ingress controller, rating limiter, etc.
Strong background in working with SaaS software platforms at scale.
Expertise in cloud governance is strongly preferred.
An entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals.
B.S/M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.