DevOps Engineer

FLASH is looking for Software Engineers to help deliver on our mission to free consumers from the hassles of everyday travel by making it faster and easier to get where you need to go, so they can focus on the destination.

Focusing on our core technical systems, you’ll be working on building out scalable APIs and services, complex pricing models, transaction processing, and working with internal and external teams to digitize access to parking facilities, residential buildings, venues, stadiums, and anywhere else people need to park, infrastructure as code, security, SRE, performance, embedded with core engineering team, level 1 PCI compliance.

You will work to improve our Linux-based infrastructure and the hosted software. You must have a strong understanding of linux-based systems, including networking and high-availability systems. You must understand containers - we use Docker but deep knowledge of related technologies is fine.

You will be expected to troubleshoot problems arising from a diverse set of technologies including Ruby on Rails and Golang-based software. You will acquire a deep understanding of our software stack and be able to monitor it effectively. You will be expected to respond to emergencies if such ever occur, and you will make it a priority to eliminate them so they don’t ever wake us up again.

You will be expected to understand performance testing, and will be optimizing application performance, including modifying their code and auxiliary systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ.

You will always strive to automate, improve, and make our systems and applications highly available and scalable. You will define all systems as code, so they can be easily understood and portable between cloud providers.

At this time we're only considering prospective employees currently residing in the United States for this position.

What we're looking for

• Deep understanding of Linux-based systems and networking
• Strong Computer Science background, preferably with a degree.
• Shell/Ruby/Python scripting
• SQL and query optimization
• Proficiency with one or more backend programming languages. Experience with Ruby on Rails is preferred but not required
• Familiarity with automation tools, Chef and Terraform or equivalent
• Understanding of logging and monitoring of distributed systems
• Highly collaborative in the planning and grooming stages, our engineers help define the products that we build
• Shipping clean, tested code that any developer on any team could quickly get up to speed with
• Strong sense of ownership; proactively identify performance issues, squash bugs, upgrade dependencies and keep our development process efficient

Your typical day

• Attend the morning core team stand with folks from product management, engineering and QA
• Work with those same folks on product development
• Perform technical spiking for a future initiative
• Use Slack to collaborate with your teammates throughout the organization
• Perform code review for a recently submitted pull request
• Ship code and celebrate

Join us in making a difference as we build our future. Flash is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity, equality, and inclusion. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Flash prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.