Senior Software Developer, DevOps

HootSuite Media, Inc. • $114K — $150K *
Toronto, ON M4E 3Y1In-Person
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
More than 3 months ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
  • 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering roles.
  • Strong mentoring and coaching experience.
  • Proficient in writing clean, scalable code, especially for SaaS products.
  • Experienced with infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and Linux systems administration.
  • Exceptional problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build software tools and automation.
  • Lead projects by owning key milestones and features.
  • Practice continuous improvement within the team and department.
  • Develop processes to eliminate repetitive tasks.
  • Maintain and upgrade distributed systems.
  • Enable development teams with tools for the software development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate across the organization to improve processes and systems.

Benefits

  • Flexible on-call rotation.
  • Opportunities for skill development and mentorship.
  • Collaborative and innovative team environment.
  • Encouragement of continuous learning and experimentation.
  • Supportive of work-life balance with hybrid working arrangements.
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Senior DevOps Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You'll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. Based out of Canada (in provinces that comply with our legal hiring entities), you'll report to the Manager, Software Development, Dev Ops.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
  • Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scriptsResponsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based Linux infrastructure
  • Participate in a flexible on-call rotation
  • Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features
  • Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
  • Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
  • Design and build our infrastructure platform
    • Identify and implement new platform features
    • Research and evaluate new technologies
    • Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
  • Operate our developer experience and production application environments
    • Diagnose and repair our distributed systems
    • Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
    • Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
  • Enable development teams
    • Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform
    • Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
  • Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software
  • Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos


WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
  • A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
  • Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers
  • Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice; Ideally you have experience working on a SaaS product
  • Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure
  • Experience with operating, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and a working knowledge of Linux systems administration, including troubleshooting system-level issues, networking (L3-L7) and basic monitoring is preferred
  • Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
  • Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions
  • Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions.
  • Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects


WHO YOU ARE:
  • Solution seeker. You're focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward-and you don't wait to be asked.
  • Lifelong learner. You have a growth mindset - you're here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn't.
  • Resilient adapter. In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
  • Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
  • Critical challenger. You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
  • Active communicator. You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
  • Integrated thinker. You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team's work drives broader organizational goals.
  • Accountable owner. You take pride in the work you're responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
  • Bar-raiser. You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.


Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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Canada Pay Range For This Role

$114,000-$150,000 CAD

About HootSuite Media, Inc.

Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system's user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and TikTok. Based in Vancouver, Hootsuite has close to 1,000 staff members in 13 locations, including Toronto, London, Paris, Sydney, Bucharest, Milan, Rome and Mexico City. The company has more than 16 million users in over 175 countries.
Learn more about HootSuite Media, Inc.
Industry
Business Services
Founded
2008
* Ladders Estimates

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