Golang Job: Team Lead - DevOps

Team Lead, DevOps

ActiveState is securing open source software supply chains and 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’re building an ambitious language distribution platform so that no engineer ever has to suffer dependency hell again, and we need your help!
This position is open to full-time telecommuters anywhere in Canada or continental US. You can also choose to work from our headquarters in beautiful Vancouver, BC.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
We’re building a new product line that’s starting to gain traction in the market, so our current DevOps challenges are to refine processes and architectures that will help us scale, design systems and techniques to measure and monitor our systems, and set us up to take advantage of business growth. Just as important is ensuring that our security processes and practices grow with us.
As the leader of the DevOps team, you will spend time both developing and directly managing a small team of developers and operators. You will work directly with product managers, your peers, and other developers to evaluate, plan, and design new features and technical initiatives to support our business goals. You will influence and guide the technical direction of the company, including investments in systems, services, processes, and practices.
Your team’s mandate is to reduce the complexity of developing cloud and on-prem applications and microservices with tools and techniques such as cloud deployment, Kubernetes and cluster management, continuous integration, monitoring, and automation. Your personal mandate is to coach the skills needed to increase our security, minimize our downtime, and improve our effectiveness.
Our users will love you because you’ve helped us create a stable, reliable, secure, and available platform. Developers at ActiveState will love you because you’ve helped them solve difficult problems of networking, deployment, monitoring, and reliability. This will exercise your prioritization skills; you will help your team and the rest of the organization anticipate and resolve problems before they occur.

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.
• The chance to grow and grow with a team, as we expand our security and operations skills.
• The chance to collaborate with a smart, considerate, enthusiastic team of people.
• The chance to work on a project that will change the work lives of developers around the world, including your own!
• Competitive salary and bonus plan.
• Comprehensive benefits package and health/wellness credit program.

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience leading and managing a team of at least 2 to 5 developers and operations engineers.
• An appreciation for how DevOps and DevSecOps improve productivity, security, and correctness.
• Strong experience with cloud development, deployment, and management, especially provisioning, monitoring, and budgeting.
• Excellent written and spoken skills, both technical and non-technical.
• Strong empathy for users both internal and external.
• A problem-solving mindset, where you enjoy debugging as much as anticipating and avoiding potential problems.
• Experience supporting complex software systems along with the ability to design non-trivial applications and components from scratch.
• Experience with capacity planning and vendor management.
• The ability to write clean, well-tested code with clear documentation.
• Experience with at least one programming language, and at least shallow experience with several. Polyglots are welcome!
• 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.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, whether formal or informal. Delegation, mentoring, and deliberate training are essential to this role.

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

• Mentoring, including career coaching, goal setting, and code reviews.
• Security Operations Center, SRE, or Chaos Engineering experience.
• Golang development experience.
• IT automation frameworks and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and Salt.
• Open source contributions, especially for languages such as Perl, Python, Tcl, PHP, Ruby, Node, Haskell, Elm, and Golang.
• Microservices and message queues.

What to Expect
We’re a polyglot company and embrace using the best language or tool for the given task at hand. You’ll regularly find Python, Elm, JavaScript, Golang, Bazel, Docker, Kubernetes, Haskell, Airflow, and other modern tools. Quality is as important as speed. We’re building for the long run, so you’ll need to enjoy writing tests and documentation too.

We use open source software whenever possible, and we also like to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house where that makes sense.
Our day to day work practices are centered around GitHub, pull requests, code review, continuous testing, integration, and deployment, and agile development. We coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using Slack for chat, Zoom for video calls and screen sharing, Jira, and Google Drive. We’re always looking to improve our practices and we expect you to help us to do so.

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