About Uphold
One of the fastest-growing fintech companies, Uphold is pursuing a mission to democratise investments and payments for people and companies worldwide. Founded in 2014, the Silicon Valley firm today has more than 3 million customers in over 150 countries and has enjoyed more than 2MM Mobile App downloads during the first quarter of 2020. A bridge between old and new money systems, Uphold allows people to buy, exchange and send more than 100 cryptocurrencies, precious metals, equities, and currencies instantly. An engineering-led company, Uphold provides a stimulating and challenging home for the brightest and best coding talent.
We stand by the idea that ‘source code is a liability, not an asset’, so we do our best to keep things simple, readable and less complex to manage.
We work collaboratively with a shared code ownership mindset to design and implement complex technical projects, balancing speed with quality, learning from our past mistakes, and allowing everyone time to take the challenge they see fit.
If you’re a Rockstar and this sounds interesting and challenging, we want to hear from you. Apply here!
The opportunity:
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Engineering team. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity where you’ll get to focus on building and improving the many microservices powering our web and mobile applications for consumers and businesses. You will be designing and building services with three core principles in mind: maintainability, performance, and security.
If you are excited about cloud-based large-scale systems, high-availability requirements, scalability problems, automated workflows, infrastructure orchestration, and infrastructure as code, Uphold is the place for you!
Perfil do Candidato
What you’ll be doing primarily:
- Working on a high profile and global platform operating in the fintech and cryptocurrency space.
- Driving and collaboratively delivering a fully automated infrastructure and development pipeline.
- Participating in deployments with strict availability requirements on a large scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand.
- Expanding our effort in writing our infrastructure as code using tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Evolving our automation tasks into new territories.
- Working collaboratively with the Backend Engineering team to increase our resilience through insightful systems and application metrics.
- Improving our CI/CD pipeline to provide new integration vectors.
- Supporting the team as required via on-call schedule rotation.
Competências necessárias:
Required qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.
- Spent lots of quality time coding non-trivial scripts and automating tasks in order to automate yourself out of the job.
- Strong knowledge of standard development pipelines, including build and other automation tools.
- Strong knowledge of container technology (e.g. LXC, Docker) and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Understanding of infrastructure management as code.
- Knowledge of modern web development practices and other software development practices.
- Knowledge of the concepts behind immutable infrastructure.
- Knowledge of revision control systems.
- Excellent communication skills and a team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams, and with a great attitude.
- Fluent written and oral English skills.
Bonus if you have:
- Experience with cloud-native edge or service proxies.
- Experience with relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL), non-relational databases (Redis, Elasticsearch).
- Experience with message queues (e.g. Kafka, NSQ, Pulsar or RabbitMQ).
- Experience working with CI systems such as Concourse, Travis CI, CircleCI, Codeship, GitLab CI or others.
- Experience with Disaster Recovery and Highly Available infrastructure patterns.
- An interest in security topics or proven record of security measures implemented on other products you’ve worked on.
- Fluency in cryptocurrencies or other digital assets as they are core to our business.
- Community talks, certifications, and/or blog posts on your interests and research.
- Open source project contributions of any kind, such as tools developed to solve specific problems you’ve had or fixing issues on existing projects.
Importantly, if you’re looking for a senior role with us, you will have achieved many of the things above while also providing mentorship to others, and have engaged in public speaking opportunities
Condições:
What we have to offer you:
- An amazing work environment in a company that continues to grow, driven by extraordinary and passionate people that keep up innovating and challenging more each day.
- An international team, in a cutting edge field, working on the most fascinating projects.
- Growth and career opportunities, and the chance to be proactive and creative.
- A flexible and enthusiastic work environment that offers you snacks, a lot of coffee and other great benefits.
- Open and transparent culture - we get together on a weekly basis to share updates, strategic plans, and engage with each other informally over food and drinks.
- Interesting events that keep you connected with the team and celebrate our success.
Be part of a great company that is revolutionizing the financial services. Apply now!
If this job isn’t exactly what you are looking for, visit our careers page to check out all our exciting opportunities.
A Oferta expira em31/Jan/2022
