Software Engineer (Operations)

What you'll be doing

• Designing an elegant abstraction layer for multiple cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, and Kubernetes and implementing the abstraction layer.  You'll strive to build abstractions that capture the capabilities of each platform without imposing the limitations of one upon another. This is a vast task: abstractions must be created for virtual machines, networking, storage, and all other resources.  
• Working with others to implement a library of cloud components such as queues, autoscaling, and warm pool components.  
• Own the reliability, fault tolerance, scalability, and performance of the Shoreline product.
• Own the CI/CD of Shoreline across multiple platforms including debugging production issues.  

You'll use standard software development best practices such as version control and participate in software development processes such as code and design reviews.  

We pay competitively. While this position can be remote, you may be asked from time to time to travel to and work from the main office located in Redwood City, CA.

What you should have

• Expertise in at least two platforms including AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, and/or Kubernetes.
• Experience performing DevOps at scale including debugging production systems.
• Deep knowledge of linux internals and system administration.  You should know your way around the shell.  
• Expertise in scripting
• Expertise in at least one programming language.
• An understanding of networks including protocols and devices.  
• Verbal and written English fluency.
• Expertise with version control and writing tests. 

Bonus Points

• Experience with Go, python or another functional programming language.
• Knowledge and usage of databases, streaming systems, and other common stack components.
• Familiarly with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with deploying to bare metal / data center operations.