Remote Staff Software Engineer – Pipelines Job at Gruntwork
Job Description
About Gruntwork:
Gruntwork is on a mission to transform the way DevOps is done. Let’s face it: designing, launching, and managing infrastructure is still a terrible experience for most organizations, but it doesn’t have to be that way!
We are globally recognized both for our open source tools used by thousands of companies from startups to Fortune 500s, and our extensive thought leadership content on how DevOps should be done. Now we’re looking for product-focused engineers who can help us build out our vision for our next-generation DevOps management platform.
About this role:
This role focuses on one component of our platform, Gruntwork Pipelines, whose product mission is to enable orgs to roll out their infrastructure-as-code changes in a way that is safe, cost-effective, and enjoyable.
We’re looking for a staff engineer who can:
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Lead the product’s core architecture and design
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Implement a first-class CLI experience in Go
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Bring their own opinions on the best way for teams to roll out infrastructure-as-code changes
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Design new features like an approach to policies, customer-defined actions, crowd-sourced error message guidance, and more.
You might be a good fit if:
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You’re a software engineer who’s always been curious about DevOps and wants to dive in
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You’re a DevOps engineer with strong software engineering skills and you’d like to build the tools that other DevOps engineers use
About working together:
Gruntwork is 100% remote, however we organize a company-wide in-person meetup roughly every 4 months.
One of our values is that work-life balance leads to both better work and a better life, so we require that all our team members live in a time zone between Los Angeles and New York, inclusive. You can be located anywhere in the western hemisphere, though most of our team is in the USA and Canada.
About the team:
Gruntwork today is one large engineering team, plus a product designer, product manager, and engineering manager. In this role you’ll focus primarily on Pipelines in collaboration with one other engineer who is also “primary” on Pipelines, however we’ll periodically ask you to collaborate on the other products in our platform when the need arises. Over time, we plan to evolve to a cross-functional squad focused entirely on Pipelines.
What you’ll work on:
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Our tech stack. Pipelines is written primarily in Go. In addition, you’ll work with Python, Typescript, Terraform/OpenTofu, AWS, Bash, GitHub Actions, Next.js, and Tailwind.
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Define foundational patterns. You’ll be responsible for improving the core architecture, defining coding patterns, and designing a great overall developer experience both for customers of and contributors to Pipelines.
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Implement a whole bunch of features. Working closely with both our customers and our product team, you’ll design and implement novel Pipelines features that will differentiate us in the market.
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First-class CLI experience. You’ll help us create not only a great overall product but also a great CLI experience for those customers who want to use Pipelines on the terminal.
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Thought leadership. We’ll look to you to build a vision for how rolling out infrastructure changes should work, and then to build out that vision in the product.
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Build out the SaaS platform. You’ll also help us build foundational patterns for a typical SaaS platform, including robust multi-tenancy, database schemas, and backend services.
We’re looking for a Grunt who:
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Has shipped a lot of software. You’ve worked closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to create impactful products, and you know what it takes to ship high-quality software.
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Knows software engineering principles. You’re familiar with most of the following: OOP concepts, automated testing, complexity management, type systems, core data structures, concurrency, and functional programming concepts.
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Has full stack experience. You know how to write code across the stack and have experience in a of the following, or similar languages: Go, Python, Typescript, Bash, React, Next.js.
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Has DevOps experience. You have extensive experience working with at least one major cloud provider and you’ve at least dabbled in DevOps.
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Loves to get things done. Your joy is shipping features that customers love. You make good tradeoffs, prioritize thoughtfully, and work efficiently. You generally get a lot done for time worked.
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Enjoys writing docs. You recognize that docs are an essential part of the product and the way that customers learn to use what you’ve built. You’re excited to share your work with the customer.
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Cares about code quality. You know that code is read 10x as much as it’s written so you care about how your code looks and reads for your unknown future colleagues who will read what you write.
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Cares about security. You constantly think about the security implications of what you’re doing and take steps to make your code reasonably secure.
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Cares about your fellow humans. You look to make personal connections with the people you work with, and you want to work for a company whose mission and people you believe in.
What we offer:
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No investors, no debt. We control our own destiny and are focused on building a company that customers love.
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Systematically above-market salary. We compute all salaries using a formula designed to systematically pay above market, wherever you live.
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Meaningful equity. We offer a meaningful chunk of equity to all current and new team members. We’ve even put in place a “progressive equity” plan where if there is a large exit event, employees end up with a larger portion of the proceeds (rather than the founders hogging it all).
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Profit-sharing bonus. We set aside a pot of money at the end of each year based on profits and distribute bonuses according to a formula that uses as inputs your level within the company and the length of your tenure at the company.
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Hardware budget. We’ll buy you a brand new state-of-the-art 16″ Apple MacBook Pro (or other computer of your choosing of equivalent value) upon joining. It will be owned by you, not the company.
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Personal Budget. We’ll give you a personal budget of $1,000 USD per month (yes, per month) to spend on your workspace (e.g., a co-working space), health (e.g., gym, yoga), time (e.g., babysitter), and/or learning (e.g., books, courses).
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Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance. We offer a range of high-quality plans with a large portion paid by the company. For countries other than the US, this includes extra coverage on top of your statutory insurance.
In addition to the global benefits listed above, we have some US-specific benefits as well:
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FSA and HSAs. We don’t contribute to these accounts, but we do offer them as an option.
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401(k). We contribute a portion of your salary to your 401(k).
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Disability insurance. If you get disabled, we have a policy that will pay out a portion of your salary.