Senior DevOps Engineer / Ruby - Perry Street Software

This is a remote position.

What you'll do:

• Maintain a complex backend which processes more than 350 million web server requests per day
• Manage, modernize and innovate across our fleet of API, process and database servers running in the AWS cloud
• Terraform our architecture to ensure cloud architectural consistency
• Build a modern API application atop a functional architecture in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and/or Sinatra
• Build well factored, maintainable, and tested code using RSpec with Test & Behavior Driven Development (TDD & BDD)
• Understand and build using strong architectural patterns beyond the standard MVC of Rails
• Have a strong sense of OO programming and Architectural patterns
• Be able to work with, mentor, and guide a distributed team of developers
• Team members will be expected to align to the working and pairing hours of their team in their respective regions. Our team writes code in pairs, and engineering teams screen-share with each other a minimum of 4 hours per day.
• We are pioneers of architectural linters, and are working on a new open-source architectural linter for Ruby inspired by our experience in Kotlin . This enables us to apply architectural principles across a global, distributed team

Requirements

• Because we are a global, remote, distributed company, timezone alignment is critical
• If you are EU-based, you must be available to work between 11am CET and 8pm CET (Winter) or 12pm CET and 9pm CET (Summer)
• If you are Brasil-based, you must be available to work between 8am EST and 5pm EST
• If you are North America-based, you must be available to work between 8am EST and 5pm EST
• Be available to collaborate between 9a EST and 1p EST, regardless of your present timezone.
• Have experience working for remote, global teams
• Be excited about and open to pair programming
• Be open to learning languages outside their current server specialty, such as Swift, Kotlin, Python or JavaScript
• Senior-level expertise working with: Docker, K8s, SQL, Linux, and AWS
• Fully understand and be able to critically review and evaluate all of the AI-generated code we produce
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science, related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of demonstrable devops (AWS or equivalent) experience
• 5+ years of software development experience using any major application development language (Java/Ruby/Python/Go/.NET)
• Experience using design and architecture patterns
• Strong sense of ownership, ability to work independently, and proven track record of driving products
• Shipped consumer API used concurrently by thousands of users.

Bonus if you have experience with:

• Full