As a Senior DevOps Engineer on the Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and evolving our platform. The mission is to make Button’s platform scalable, stable, and operable in a straightforward way. A well-designed platform increases the velocity of every engineer on the team.

You will have direct influence over the platform that runs Button’s services, applications, and data processing systems. You will closely partner with other engineers on the Core and Infrastructure teams to ensure coherent designs for our new and existing products. You will provide and maintain a self-service platform for the system and data needs of Product Engineering to stand-up, maintain, and otherwise service the foundation for Button’s products. In this role, you will have the opportunity to greatly influence the vision and participate in planning the roadmap.

AS A DEVOPS ENGINEER:

Expand our system instrumentation and tooling with monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing for our critical business tasks; you will be responsible for identifying and following through on key system metrics.
Build, improve, maintain, and otherwise support business-critical systems
Support new feature development as the go-to-partner for Product Engineering for the infrastructure and data needs, providing tools and guidance when it comes to best practices and solving problems with our unique constraints.
Manage and monitor most aspects of our production serving environment. We're an AWS shop, and we make heavy use of ECS, RDS, and EC2 in production, all managed through Terraform.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR TEAMMATES WHO ARE:

Passionate about designing systems and services that are reliable, scalable, and thoughtfully right-sized, with an emphasis on strong documentation and a drive to explore new technologies that elevate Button’s products.
Building internal tools and scripting solutions. This will require comfort operating across the entire span of a data processing pipeline and software development cycles (including supporting CI/CD and scaling the platform).
Fluency in and around Linux systems. You should be comfortable in a variety of troubleshooting situations that involve the health of the underlying system.
A security- and safety-oriented mindset. You have good instincts for how to balance empowering developers versus maintaining a principle of least necessary privilege.
An ability to move fast, make decisions, and take a pragmatic approach to any problem. We know there are lots of ways to accomplish the same goal; you’ll find and champion the best approaches for our team.
A track record of “leveling-up” the team around them, driving impact not just through their own contributions but also by elevating others.
Experience and comfort in a production environment.

EXPERIENCE LEVEL:

5+ years of experience supporting and building infrastructure with direct hands-on experience with a variety of tools and frameworks. Today, Button uses EC2, RDS, Aurora, and ECS, all managed through Terraform.
Experience in event-driven and queue-driven architecture, serverless, DynamoDB, and step functions.
Experience with Docker
Experience with build technologies such as Make / Pantsbuild / Bazel / Buck2.
Experience administering and scaling monitoring and observability solutions (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, New Relic, or similar).
Proficiency with CI/CD solutions
Proficiency with AWS
Experience with Python, Go, or Node.js is a plus
Experience with GCP is a plus
Experience in AWS CDK is a plus

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:

Button’s total compensation package includes a base salary competitive with what is offered by similar companies in major US markets. The salary range for this role in the United States is expected to be between $133,000 - $172,000 (compensation is based on a number of factors including skills and experience relative to the job description listed above). In addition, Button provides employees with a 401(k) plan and automatically contributes 3% of an employee’s salary annually. We also want our employees to be well-rested and live balanced lives–Buttonians enjoy unlimited time off (including birthdays off) and Summer and Winter Breaks which allow the entire company to take a breath and recharge, as well as an employee assistance program. For many of the health, vision, and dental insurance plans offered by Button, the company covers 100% of the premiums for employees and 80% for dependents. Button offers all employees and their dependents complimentary memberships to One Medical as well as a monthly stipend for mobile phone/internet and an annual lifestyle stipend. Button also offers employees in select markets “All Access” memberships to WeWork as well as regular “coworking days” and social events. Most of all, Button offers our employees the opportunity to live our company values–Learn & Grow, Experiment, Adapt, and Deliver–and to be a part of an incredible team of humans working together to build a better internet, fueled by commerce.

Button is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Button is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.