The best jobs are often restricted to a few wealthy cities, but talent exists everywhere. Oyster set out to change this by launching a global employment platform that enables companies to hire, pay, and support talent anywhere.
We’re proof that a strong, engaged culture doesn't require an office. Since January 2020, Oyster has:
🌏 Built a distributed team of 400+ across 60+ countries
👩💻 Featured in Forbes as #9 in FlexJobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs
🌈 Formed a diverse leadership team and a workforce that’s 60% female
🏆 Earned top employee engagement scores
🦄 Raised $286 million; valued at $1.2 billion
💚 Achieved B Corp status in 2023
Our momentum shows the power of global employment, and we’re just getting started! If you want to help us drive change and work remotely, we’d love for you to apply!
The RoleLocation: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +0 / +4 UTC.
You’ll join our Platform Flow Engineering team, responsible for building and operating the foundation that allows Oyster engineers to ship software quickly, safely, and reliably at scale. You’ll own the systems that power our CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, and developer experience, working closely with security and application engineers to keep Oyster fast, stable, and secure.
Key ResponsibilitiesBuild world-class developer experience - Design and maintain internal Ruby gems, tooling, and abstractions that remove infrastructure and platform complexity and let engineers focus on product work.
Own CI/CD from commit to production - Build, optimize, and operate fully automated, reliable, and cost-effective CI/CD pipelines for our applications.
Run and evolve our cloud platform - Operate and improve our AWS + Heroku hybrid infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
Increase reliability and confidence - Implement SRE best practices, observability, and incident workflows using tools like Datadog and Sentry to reduce outages, speed up recovery, and eliminate operational toil.
Be a platform partner to engineering - Collaborate in public channels to diagnose issues, guide teams, and continuously improve how Oyster builds and runs software.
5+ years in owning DevOps, SRE, or/and infrastructure responsibilities in production environments at scale.
Proven experience running applications in production on AWS and Heroku.
Comfortable managing Linux systems and cloud infrastructure with Terraform or similar tools.
Skilled in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Proficient with Datadog (or equivalent) for monitoring and debugging, and Sentry (or equivalent) for exception tracking.
Strong collaborator in incident response, openly diagnosing and resolving issues with teams.
Bonus points
Strong belief or experience in Platform Engineering: treating internal tooling as a product and DevEx as a key success metric.
Experience with Ruby on Rails.
Experience with Harness CI or Drone.
Experience with automated Heroku management (e.g, Terraform or scripted workflows).
Experience with cross-platform automation for macOS and Linux developer environments.
Experience with TDD using Guard and related plugins.
Experience working in asynchronous, remote-first teams.
A reliable home internet connection (or be able to get one)
Fluent English language skills
Our values guide the work we do, the decisions we make, and the culture that makes us special. We make it happen. We drive change. We build and give trust, and we are a united team.
Our mission is to create a more equal world, one global hire at a time. Everything we do ladders up to our mission, and that doesn’t just mean building software. We develop programs, participate in workshops, and create dedicated teams to ensure we successfully support companies and knowledge workers in this new world of work.
We embrace asynchronous communication and collaborative work and share our practices in the Oyster Public HQ to help other global teams learn from our experiences.
How YOU workWith diverse locations, cultures, and needs, we created How YOU Work; a program supporting your whole human experience at Oyster:
Work from anywhere: Oyster has no borders or HQ. As long as work is timely, your team is supported, and you're authorized to work where you live, you can work from anywhere.
Paid time off: Enjoy 40 days off per year (including holidays and vacation), or more if required by your country.
Mental health support: Access Plumm, our mental well-being service.
Wellbeing allowance: Each month, receive a wellbeing allowance in your ThanksBen wallet. Spend it on a wide range of options; see the benefits catalogue for ideas.
Flexible parental leave: All new parents are eligible for at least three months’ paid leave, with job protection for up to 12 months or as required locally.
WFH stipend: Receive a stipend for your laptop and home office equipment to get you set up quickly.
We embrace diverse perspectives and intentionally build our product and company with an inclusive, global mindset. We encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet every criterion, and are committed to a trust-based, thriving environment.
Oyster is committed to ensuring equal opportunity of employment for qualified persons with disabilities and actively fosters an inclusive work environment. If you require reasonable accommodations throughout the recruiting process, please email [email protected] with the subject line: Interview Accommodations.
Our available positions are on our careers page. Our team will only contact you from an @oysterhr.com email, and we will never ask for money as part of an interview process or job offer. If you receive a suspicious email about Oyster jobs or are directed to a site other than www.oysterhr.com/careers, please report it via our Compliance and Ethics Helpline.
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What We Do
Our mission is to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. We believe it should be easy for any company to hire any person, no matter where either is located in the world.
Now more than ever, smart companies can't allow the location of their HQ to dictate the size of their talent pool. Your next transformative hire could be anywhere.
We also believe the most in-demand knowledge workers today want to leverage a global career perspective, the freedom to live where they want, and the security of full-fledged employment with benefits.
But today, the flow between talent and opportunity around the globe is still blocked by the costs and legal complexity companies face before they can fully employ in another country. Cross-border hiring is still arcane, remarkably un-transformed by software, and ripe for disruption.
We are also motivated by the opportunity for positive social impact. Removing these barriers makes the world a better place in three ways: 1) It helps redress inequalities of access to opportunity, 2) It allows for the distribution of wealth to places other than the major cities of the world, and 3) It supports the environmentally-friendly and business-smart shift to remote working.
Our software platform is created to solve for the complexities of giving full-time, full-fledged employment to anyone in the world, while providing a delightful experience to employers and employees.
With Oyster, you can hire remote full-time employees anywhere in the world, provide fully-compliant payroll, and give your valued remote hires around the world the benefits and perks they deserve.
Oyster has Pending B Corporation status. Read our social impact thesis: https://www.oysterhr.com/impact-thesis
