tawk.to, the world's #1 business messaging application, is expanding its engineering team and seeking an experienced DevOps engineer. You will build and maintain large-scale systems including search, concurrency, content organization, real-time metrics, deployment, and event-driven, low-latency, concurrent applications. Our systems are mostly built on Node.js, and we focus on fast, iterative development with over 200+ deployments per month. You will work within small cross-functional teams of 3-6 people that rely on one another to champion project goals and set their own priorities.
Key responsibilities
- Analyze current technology utilized within the company and develop steps and processes to improve and expand upon them
- Establish milestones for necessary contributions from departments and develop processes to facilitate their collaboration
- Assist other department engineers in creating practical demonstrations of proposed solutions and demonstrating them to other members of the team
- Provide detailed specifications for proposed solutions including materials, manpower and time necessary
- Provide clear goals for all areas of a project and develop steps to oversee their timely execution
- Work closely with engineering professionals within the company to maintain hardware and software needed for projects to be completed efficiently
- Mentor and train other engineers throughout the company and seek to continually improve processes company-wide
- Work alongside project management teams to successfully monitor the progress and implementation of initiatives
About you
- 5 years of experience running large scale deployments
- Champion of automation
- Deep understanding and experience of networking on the cloud: VPC, firewall, Load Balancers
- Deep understanding and experience of configuration management: Chef or Puppet
- Champion of reproducible infrastructure (Infrastructure as Code), using tools like Hashicorp Terraform and Hashicorp Packer
- Proficiency in writing shell scripts
- Ability to speak and write at a high level in the English language
About us
tawk.to is a highly motivated, friendly, and globally distributed team. The company has grown but remains a small team, so everyone that delivers in their area can have and make a big impact, with career growth opportunities for highest achievers.
Competitive salary, depending on your experience and demonstrated capabilities