Staff Software Engineer - DevOps
About Drift
Drift is the Conversational Marketing platform that combines chat, email, video, and AI to remove the friction from business buying. With Drift, you can start conversations with future customers now, on their terms -- not days later. There are over 50,000 businesses that use Drift today to accelerate revenue, shrink sales cycles, and make buying easy. Our mission is to use conversations to make business buying frictionless, more enjoyable, and more human.
About Digital First
Drift is a Digital First company, which means Remote is the primary experience for all employees. For the majority of our positions, your location is flexible! If “Remote” is stated in the job location, that role can be located anywhere Drift is authorized to do business in the United States.
Select roles may require you to be located in a city where we have a Conversation Space (currently Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA, Tampa, FL, and London, UK – with more to come across the globe), or work hours associated with a specific time zone. If this is the case, it will be explicitly stated in the job description. Please work with your recruiter and hiring manager to learn more about where Drift is authorized in the U.S. and to determine if you are eligible for employment based on your location.
About the role
Are you passionate about empowering engineering teams to build better software more effectively? Our engineering teams truly own their services, all the way to production, and our mission is to make sure they have the tools and knowledge they need to make that work. To make that happen, we practice GitOps. We run infrastructure in AWS and Kubernetes, and define things in code all the way down. Our CI pipeline is heavily automated and transparent. We leverage industry standards, OSS, and commercial software where it makes sense.
We need DevOps engineers who are passionate about both building tools that make it easier for developers to build things well and teaching engineers how and why to build things better. Keywords: * AWS * Terraform * Kubernetes * ArgoCD * CircleCI * Python * Java
About you and what type of skills you’ll need:
-You often collaborate with senior engineers and business leaders across organizations and disciplines.
-You have an academic background in Computer Science or a related field.
-You have at least 1+ years of experience as a software engineer, systems engineer, or DBA/ops engineer.
Infrastructure:
-You have experience working with Cloud infrastructure like AWS.
-You understand the concept behind tools like Terraform, and the concept of “infrastructure as code”
-You have some experience with containers such as Docker
SDLC:
-You understand the appeal of Continuous Delivery, and are excited by the idea of making deployments fast, simple, and low risk.
Bonuses
-You have contributed to open source projects.
-You contribute to developer communities
At Drift, team members:
-Have complete ownership and accountability over their role and functional area
-Have complete transparency into the rest of the company (and are expected to show their work and do the same)
-Have a sense of urgency. We are building a once in a lifetime company at Drift, so we move fast every single day.
Drift is committed to being an equal opportunity employer.
We know that applying for a new job can be intimidating. But guess what? At Drift, there is no such thing as an “ideal candidate.” We believe in the power of teamwork -- and in the desire to learn something new every day. We believe in hiring people, not just skills. Take it from our CEO.
If this sounds like a company you would like to join and a role you would thrive in, please don’t hold back from applying! Whatever skills you bring to the table or background you’re coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success. We’re looking forward to learning more about you!
Drift is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected]