DevOps Engineer @ Mousera

About Us:

We are an early stage startup getting ready to come out of stealth mode. Backed by top tier venture capital and inspired by founders from MIT and Princeton, our mission is to dramatically improve peoples lives by empowering bio-medical investigators. Bringing together science, big data, and advanced electronics, our platform improves the speed and reproducibility of preclinical research so that it is more predictive of how drugs perform in humans. Simply stated, we are a diverse group of talented engineers and scientists, out to accelerate the speed at which new therapies reach the people who need them.

The Role:

We’ve scaled fast and this DevOps role is a critical addition to our engineering team. Your mission will be to take control of our already sizable AWS infrastructure using your talents to both optimize what we have and prepare us for massive growth. Additionally, you will have the unique opportunity to help us connect our cloud infrastructure to the world of advanced electronics, this is where the cloud meets IoT. Finally, in the spirit of DevOps you will be embedded with talented developers to streamline our entire engineering cycle. Plus we will let you play with all the latest toys, we are big on Docker and Ansible to name a just a few.

Meaningful Things You’ll Do:

• You will manage our expansion on AWS and be the go to person for scalability and availability concerns.
• You will lead our systems management and optimization efforts, working across groups to keep us sharp.
• You will work closely with experts in data science, computer vision, and software to simply get stuff done.

Your Talents:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Systems Administrator, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker or LXC
• Experience with ECS and EC2, SQS, and S3
• Solid understanding of network fundamentals (DHCP, DNS, ARP, BGP, TCP/IP, HTTP, etc.)
• Strong scripting experience, Python preferred
• Strong background in relational database technologies, Postgres preferred
• Experience managing tens to hundreds of servers on AWS or a similar managed cloud service

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with Cassandra or another NoSQL database.
• Experience with Debian.
• Experience with CircleCI or Travis.
• Familiarity with Raspberry Pi.

More About Our Culture:

We’re a group of talented individuals across multiple disciplines, coming together to deliver great engineering!

We:

• Say what we’ll do and then do it. As a small team, we’ve accomplished an incredible amount in a short time.
• Are technical polymaths. If it’s technical, we either know about it or want to learn about it.
• Have a wide range of interests, which is why we’re in this company in the first place.
• Work in the office as much as is necessary, but are focused on results more than hours-in-a-chair-at-the-office.
• Are focused on making serious progress while acknowledging and paying for technical debt.

What We Offer:

• Good salaries and good benefits. Who doesn’t want that?
• Stock options
• Catered lunch most days and fully stocked kitchen
• Flexible work hours and Friday demo days/happy hours
• Relaxed office in San Mateo and flexible work hours
• Company offsites and retreats including a whole week in the summer when we close up shop and go on vacation

Our dev office is in San Mateo and the remote-controlled lab is in the South Bay.

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