Golang Job: Senior Golang Developer - Tooling and Operations

Senior Golang Developer - Tooling and Operations

ActiveState Platform - made by developers for developers! We are reinventing build engineering with an on-demand SaaS Platform and CLI tool that lets developers automate the building of any runtime environment using any open source language ecosystem on any platform. We support Python, Perl, Tcl, and Ruby (Beta) and we're hiring to add more languages and packages! We’re building an ambitious language distribution platform so that no engineer ever has to suffer dependency hell again, and we need your help to do it!
This position is open to full-time telecommuters anywhere in Canada or continental US time zones. You can also choose to work from our headquarters in beautiful Vancouver, BC.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
At ActiveState we are building a highly scalable, 100% automated build system for multiple languages across multiple platforms. We’re also creating microservice APIs for other teams to code against as we build our big new thing.
Our platform resolves dependencies for open source languages and libraries all the way up and down the stack. If this sounds like a problem of security, orchestration, and automation, it is! If you like reducing complexity, improving reliability, and helping your fellow developers increase their productivity, we want to meet you!
This specific team implements, maintains, and improves the systems and services beneath our entire platform, keeping everyone in our product and engineering productive. On this team, you’ll automate cloud deployments, improve the security and monitoring of apps and services running in Kubernetes, Mesos, and other cluster systems, and help us figure out how to build open source software securely and repeatedly. If the idea of reducing complexity and making your peers more effective motivates you, this is a great fit.
Developers at ActiveState will love you because you’ve helped them solve the hard work of networking, deployment, monitoring, and reliability. Our users will love you because you’ve helped us create a stable, reliable, secure, and available platform.

This job is a mixture of tools development and operations. Sometimes it makes sense to write our own tools, and other times to adopt, configure, and deploy open source projects or cloud-native services. Your experience and expertise will be essential to decide which approach best suits our needs.

We’re a polyglot company and embrace using the best language for the given task at hand. You’ll regularly find Golang, Elm, Javascript, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Haskell, Airflow, and other modern tools. Quality is as important as speed. We’re building for the long run, so you’ll need to be proficient in writing tests and documentation too. Our day to day work practices are centered around GitHub, pull requests, code review, CI, measurement and testing, and agile development. We’re always looking to improve and we expect you to help us to do so.
The team is remote first, primarily in the US and Canada, so we coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using Slack for chat, Zoom for video calls and screen sharing, Jira, and the Google Suite.
We use open source software whenever possible, and we contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

• Working for a stable and growing company that offers the environment and personal growth potential of a start-up as well as the stability of a successful business with established revenue.
• Building a platform and tooling to support the open source community.
• Flexible work schedule - we care about what you produce, not how long it took you.
• Growing with a team, as we expand our work in this area.
• The chance to collaborate with a smart, considerate, enthusiastic team of people on a project that will change the work lives of developers around the world.
• Competitive salary and bonus plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package and health/wellness credit program.

REQUIREMENTS

• An operations mindset: keeping systems running and running well, even if you didn’t create them.

• Experience maintaining complex software systems along with the ability to design non-trivial applications and components from scratch.

• Either:

• Practical experience creating tools for other developers
• Practical experience administering, securing, and and automating cloud deployment environments

• A problem-solving mindset, where you enjoy debugging as well as anticipating and avoiding potential problems.
• Strong experience with at least one programming language, and shallow experience with several. Polyglots are welcome!
• Excellent written and spoken skills, both technical and non-technical. You’ll need to collaborate closely with your developer teammates, as well as be able to have coherent conversations with people from QA, sales, marketing, and other parts of the company.
• A willingness to engage in the process of defining our work through conversations with product management, other engineering teams, and the rest of the company.
• The ability to help others on the team become better at their jobs through mentoring, supporting, trusting, and generally being a team player.

ASSETS
If you have experience with any of the following please make sure to highlight it in your cover letter:

• DevOps tooling, automation, or application development with Golang.
• Security Operations Center experience.
• SRE and Chaos Engineering.
• Agile processes, including breaking large projects up into smaller stories, estimation, working in branches (GitHub Flow), code review, and CI.
• IT automation frameworks and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
• Microservices, message queues, and workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow or Argo.
• Docker, Mesos, and Kubernetes, especially in cloud environments.
• Golang, Perl, Python, Javascript, Ruby, or Tcl development experience, especially an understanding of their respective language communities and their toolchains.

Working At ActiveState
ActiveState has a collaborative, respectful, and professional culture. We’re all about working together to find the best solutions, and making sure that the experience of doing so is positive for everyone involved. There is a commitment from the CEO on down to making work at ActiveState a great experience for all.
Our company is a team of 65+ and growing, with half of the positions in technical roles. We maintain a set of core, overlapping hours, but we’re flexible with specific start and end times and are understanding about appointments and life events.
Our vision is to have an ActiveState solution on every device on every planet, so we certainly don’t lack ambition! But even though we’re ambitious we don’t expect work to become your life. We know you will do your best work in a positive environment free from death marches. For more about working at ActiveState and our Glassdoor rating go to www.activestate.com/careers.

HOW TO APPLY
Please submit your contact info, resume, and a cover letter below. Submissions without a cover letter will not be considered. We look forward to hearing from you!
We are committed to creating a welcoming environment for everyone at ActiveState and we welcome applicants from all walks of life.
Even if you don’t feel you meet every exact requirement, we still would love to hear from you and why you think you would be an awesome addition to our team and we encourage you to apply.

Job Type: Full-time