Harper is a high-performance distributed application platform. It combines a database, in-memory cache, and real-time message broker to allow users to create enterprise-grade solutions with fewer moving parts, fewer lines of code, and a superior developer experience.
Role Overview:
This role will focus on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform while driving automation and operational excellence. You will work closely with development teams to build robust infrastructure, enhance observability, and proactively address system challenges. Your expertise in automation, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, monitoring, and platform reliability will ensure our systems operate smoothly and efficiently.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage cloud-based infrastructure across providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to facilitate efficient software delivery.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Monitor system performance, reliability, and security, implementing necessary improvements to maintain optimal operations.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and platform issues promptly to minimize downtime.
- Implement and maintain observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or the ELK Stack.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to optimize application deployment and scaling strategies.
- Ensure security best practices are implemented and maintained across the infrastructure.
- Manage incident response and participate in on-call rotations to uphold platform reliability.
- Document infrastructure and operational processes to enhance transparency and scalability.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Platform Operations.
- Strong experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD.
- Solid understanding of networking, security, and monitoring best practices.
- Experience with scripting and automation using languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
- Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or New Relic.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
Nice-to-Have:
- Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul.
- Knowledge of database management and optimization techniques.
- Experience with Harper
- Experience working at a startup
Salary Range: $150,000 - $170,000
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to be part of a high-growth startup with a collaborative and supportive team culture.
- Flexible work environment with remote work options and a focus on work-life balance.
- Competitive compensation package including base salary, commission, and benefits.
- Room for career advancement and professional development opportunities.
Interview Process:
- Recruiter Screen - 30 minute Zoom call to discuss the role and experience
- Hiring Manager Call - 30 minute Zoom call to get into the details of the role and experience
- Take Home Assignment - Dev Ops Code Challenge
- Panel Interview - 60 minute Zoom call to discuss the Code Challenge with a panel of employees
- Founder Interview - 30 minute Zoom call with our founders as a final round
If you are a motivated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment and shares our values of transparency, authenticity, and empowerment, we want to hear from you!
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What We Do
Harper is a globally-distributed edge application platform. It reduces complexity, increases performance, and lowers costs by combining user-defined applications, a high-performance database, and an enterprise-grade streaming broker into a single package. The platform offers unlimited horizontal scale at the click of a button, and synchronizes data across all the nodes in a cluster in milliseconds. Harper simplifies the process of delivering applications and the data that drives them to the edge, which dramatically improves both the user experience and total cost of ownership for large-scale applications. Deploying Harper on global infrastructure enables a CDN-like solution for enterprise data and applications.
Harper is partnered with global companies like Akamai, Verizon, AWS, and Lumen to bring a complete solution to the market. Their customers include massive gaming companies, global retailers, digital advertising innovators, and more.
Harper has over 130K deployments and 15K community members. Their leadership has a deep and diverse background in solving complex tech challenges for organizations from startups up to Fortune 100 companies and beyond. Harper has achieved RedHat certification on OpenShift, and is deployable anywhere, including Linode, DigitalOcean Marketplace, hyper-scaler clouds, and more.
Harper has been awarded Best Small Companies to Work For by BuiltIn, Top Edge Computing Companies to Watch, Startup of the Year by Hackernoon. Within the last year, our CEO has been awarded the Ethical Leader of the Year by the University of Colorado and was recognized as a Titan 100 for the Colorado Titan 100 Awards.
Why Work With Us
Harper is an innovation-motivated company that solves the most complex problems facing technology at scale. Leading with transparency and radical authenticity, employees receive specific and timely feedback driving rapid career growth and a strong sense of ownership. At Harper, we build people up to realize their full potential.
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