Lead DevOps Engineer

The SaladCloud group introduces new compute workloads to the Salad ecosystem. Our distributed network has already supplied over 8,000 years of processing uptime to Ethereum and dozens of other cryptocurrency networks, and Salad users will soon contribute spare bandwidth to support some of the world’s most popular CDN & VPN services. You’ll be joining the DevOps team. You’ll be responsible for orchestrating highly-scalable, cloud-native services to power our massive distributed infrastructure platform. You’ll work closely with all product squads supporting both sides of our marketplace, SaladCloud and The Kitchen. Responsibilities: - Alongside engineering leadership, driving the end-to-end delivery of products that fuel strategic business decisions while optimizing technical performance, reliability, and scalability. - Owning large, technical projects which could include establishing company-wide IT services and support, partnering with the executive team to determine technical security policies, or designing and implementing a scalable architecture. - Serving as a mentor and leading teammates to promote knowledge sharing and communication across product development teams. - Coordinate timely support for production services and occasionally participate in after-hours on-call rotations. - Taking the initiative to dig into challenging problems with curiosity and humility. - Contributing to engineering wiki and documenting software architecture and functionality. - Designing, building, and maintaining compliance and security controls to meet immediate and future business needs. Qualifications; - Technical Chops: 5+ years of experience building, running, and monitoring cloud services on AWS or Azure. Experience with Kubernetes is a big plus. - Infrastructure as Code: Experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud infra is what we love to see. - CI/CD: Proficiency in creating complex YAML build and release pipelines on Azure DevOps or an equivalent environment. Code: Fluency in modern shell scripting and one or more current generation scripting languages used by DevOps professionals (Python, Go, Ansible, etc). Bonus points for C# experience and the ability to improve our application-cloud integrations. Teamwork: You build strong relationships with your team and across the company. You strive to understand multiple points of view. Communication: You can ensure that sophisticated ideas, thoughts, and vision are expressed simply and effectively through verbal and written communication. You take ownership of encouraging open and honest communication. Benefits: Unlimited Vacation Pays 75% Health $500 Work From Home Budget Fully Remote Team Computer Provided Referral Bonus Anyone we hire will share in the challenges and rewards of a rapidly developing company. Ideal candidates must be comfortable advancing projects with minimal oversight, synthesizing discrete tasks from cross-team discussions, and thoroughly advocating their ideas. Because our team is entirely remote, new hires will also be expected to keep themselves on task and optimize their personal workflows. Though we support scheduling flexibility, we ask new hires to commit to a core workday that allows for collaboration with teammates operating within the UTC-05:00 (EST) and UTC-09:00 (AKST) time zones. You must work in a time zone in or between the EST and AKST times zones. Only U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders. The Salad desktop application allows gamers and everyday webizens to share latent compute resources from their idle PCs—like processing cycles, storage, or bandwidth—on a distributed network called "The Kitchen," where they can contribute to advanced computing tasks and power their passions with meaningful rewards. Every year, Salad Chefs claim over 3 million games, gift cards, subscriptions, and other digital rewards using value earned on Salad. With their help, our network has surpassed some of the world's top supercomputers with peaks of 80 pFLOPS and counting! Since our founding in 2018, the Salad community has contributed over 8,000 years of latent processing cycles to Ethereum and other blockchain ecosystems and donated thousands to environmental charities like #TeamTrees and 1% for the Planet. Now we're activating that robust supply of shared resources to create a decentralized and entirely people-powered cloud computing platform. By 2025, the SaladCloud platform will offer affordable, workload-agnostic cloud computing infrastructure for virtually any use case. Whether it's bootstrapping VPN services, seeding new blockchains ("decentralization-as-a-service"), spinning up P2P gaming networks, or securely distributing a 3D rendering job to thousands of anonymous nodes, there's nothing the Salad Kitchen can't cook up.