AWS DevOps Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

About BeatStars

Since 2008 BeatStars has been the pioneering and go-to online music marketplace to connect millions of recording artists and music producers worldwide. BeatStars is also the leading artist discovery tool for all the major and independent labels. Most recently, BeatStars partnered with Sony Publishing to launch its publishing arm on the platform.

Now, with over 3 million monthly active users, we've paid over $350M to our creator community. We continue to support independent musicians with the tools, community, opportunities, and education they need to earn a living doing what they love.

What You’ll Be Doing

BeatStars is seeking a highly skilled DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic technical team. We are looking for an innovative professional who can design, implement, and maintain robust cloud infrastructure and ensure seamless, secure, and scalable system operations. As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, implementing cutting-edge security measures, and optimizing our system's performance across multiple environments.

Responsibilities:

• Update and maintain comprehensive cloud infrastructure using AWS services
• Develop and maintain scalable microservices architectures
• Configure and manage advanced Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)
• Implement robust system monitoring and observability solutions
• Create and maintain sophisticated bot prevention and security strategies
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of cloud resources
• Optimize system performance and cost-efficiency
• Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments
• Collaborate with development team to keep software and infrastructure up to date and secure

What You’ll Need

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps engineering experience
• Proven track record of designing and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructures
• Strong understanding of network security principles
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with machine learning-based bot detection
• Experience with other non-AWS cloud infrastructure providers
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or equivalent certification
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (GDPR, SOC2)
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects

Cloud Infrastructure

• • Expert-level knowledge of AWS ecosystem
  • Proficiency in:
    • Amazon EC2, ECS, EKS
    • AWS Lambda
    • Amazon RDS, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis
    • Amazon S3 and CloudFront
    • OpenSearch
    • Cloudwatch
    • API Gateway
    • AWS IAM and Security Groups
    • Amazon VPC and networking configurations
    • CloudFormation
    • Redshift
    • Route53

Web Application Security

• Web Application Firewall (WAF) configuration
• Advanced bot prevention techniques
• DDoS mitigation strategies
• OWASP security best practices

Monitoring and Observability

• Comprehensive system monitoring solutions
• Log management and analysis
• Performance optimization
• APM tools like DataDog, New Relic, Logz.io, etc.

Automation and CI/CD

• Jenkins or GitHub Actions
• Configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or Go

Benefits

We're a small and growing team working together closely and operating with complete autonomy and freedom. This means you will have a direct impact on any project that you work on and your success will be felt across the company. Some other perks include:

• Elite Tier Benefits Program - generous contributions towards medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents
• FSA/HSA
• 20 PTO days (+5 Days at 4 years tenure) and Routine sick days
• 10 Company Observed Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• Async Daily Meditation Session
• 8 weeks of parental leave paid at 100%
• Company-sponsored Short Term Disability and Basic Life Insurance
• Voluntary Benefits (LTD, Additional Life, and 401k) 
• Flexible work hours
• $70-month tech reimbursement
• $30/month Wellness Program through JOON 
• Company observed Self-Care Days (4x per year)
• Virtual social events and a sense of community (even online)
• Global Recognition and Anniversary Program
• Plenty of opportunities while we grow and scale in a global environment
• Access to On-Demand Learning Platform

Compensation:

This salary/OTE range represents the low, middle, and high end of the salary or OTE (Sales roles only) range for this position and is subject to change. To determine starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location and an evaluation of a candidate’s skills, experience, market demands, and internal parity. The range shared on JDs is broad range to cover multiple regions. Candidates will be given a specific range based on their city/country during the initial phone screen. 

Salary/OTE is just one component of our total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for additional benefits and perks BeatStars has to offer.

Preferred locations to hire are in the United States in the Eastern time zone. This is a US-based role only. No other locations will be considered at this time. The remote salary range for this role is as follows:

• Tier 1 markets (SEA, SF, NY): $165,000-$195,000
• Other markets: $150,000-$176,000

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