Senior Developer Experience Engineer
Location: Anywhere in the US. Our engineering team is fully distributed
Salary range: $155,000-$225,0000
Data-driven companies win. Mode provides the tools to make companies data-driven. Data analysts quickly answer business questions using data in a comprehensive, cloud-based toolchain. Business users can understand and explore their company’s data in our world-class visualization product. By serving both analysts and business users, Mode provides the complete solution for data-driven companies.
Our Developer Experience team is responsible for making sure that Mode’s engineers have everything they need to do their jobs efficiently, correctly and with a minimum of overhead. We are hiring Developer Experience engineers to help us with things like environment and deployment standardization across services, e2e test scaffolding and institutional knowledge management. Apply if your idea of a good time is Dockerizing bare metal applications, streamlining testing strategies or organizing documentation.
Engineering at Mode
Come work with a diverse and deeply experienced team. We have colleagues from companies like Google, Tableau, SAS, Apple, Facebook, Glassdoor and many more. Read about our key engineering values.
Engineers at Mode work in small, cross-functional teams that own specific products and act with high autonomy. We value open discussion, collaboration and engineering excellence.
Technical Stack
- Back End Services: Ruby on Rails, Java, Go
- Front End Framework: Angular
- Infrastructure and orchestration: Terraform, Docker, SaltStack, CloudFormation
- A wide array of AWS services including EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, ECR, ECS
- Monitoring and observability: Honeycomb, Wavefront, Sumologic, Bugsnag
- GitHub, Circle CI
What you'll do
- Work with the rest of our Developer Experience team to support our core engineering department’s work as they develop our core product.
- Actively seek out pain points in our engineering flow and turn fixing those into actionable work items.
- Standardize and optimize our cloud infrastructure components.
- Expand and improve our build and release automation process.
- Build and advocate for tools and frameworks that promote self-service, observability and other devops methodologies across the engineering org.
- Collaborate, learn from others and teach those around you.
What we look for
- Passion for solving problems at the systemic level rather than the specific level when possible.
- Ability to recognize opportunities to automate and simplify.
- Knowledge of container-based orchestration and deployment.
- Experience with high level testing strategies, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
- A sense of joy fueled by decreasing entropy.
- Familiarity with security best practices and networking is a plus.
- Alignment with Mode's value.
We are particularly excited if you bring experience orchestrating distributed applications into efficient local development environments.
About Mode
Mode is a collaborative analytics platform that brings teams together around data to make game-changing decisions.
In everything we do, we strive to put the people we do it for first. This starts internally: together we're building a culture that embraces diversity and learning, humility and gratitude. At the same time, we try not to take ourselves too seriously and strive for a healthy balance between work and personal pursuits.
Benefits you can expect as a Mode employee:
- Generous, flexible PTO and family leave
- Flexible work schedules—we trust you to know what will make yourself most productive
- Excellent health coverage for team members and their families (Mode pays the 100% of the premiums)
- Supportive work environment and a manager who is focused on your professional growth
- Company events that highlight our team's passions and hobbies
Mode is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. For California residents please review our CCPA Privacy Notice linked here.