Sr. DevOps Engineer

About Select Star

Select Star is a data catalog and discovery platform built for modern enterprises. Our platform automatically catalogs & documents database tables and BI dashboards, providing actionable intelligence for our customers in 24 hrs. With Select Star, you can find out where your data is coming from, which dashboards are built on top of it, who is using the data, and how they are using it. 

We’re currently a Series A company, backed by some of the best early-stage tech investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bowery Capital, Background Capital, and prominent angel investors (Spencer Kimball, Scott Belsky, Nick Caldwell, and more). 

Top data teams from businesses like Opendoor, Pitney Bowes, Fivetran, Block/Square and more are relying on Select Star to understand their data. We’re starting to see strong traction in the market and are looking to build out our team to help us scale. 

The Role

You will help maintain and scale Select Star’s infrastructure to support our growing customer base and feature set. You will help triage issues as well as improve the overall performance and reliability of our infrastructure. 

What you’ll do:

• Support and maintain our the infrastructure of Select Star’s core applications
• Improve scalability, performance and stability of our infrastructure
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ensure future application changes and new features are rolled out successfully
• Develop monitoring solutions to provide greater visibility into the performance and reliability of our cloud environment
• Contribute to the overall engineering team to ensure objectives are achieved and support others as necessary
• Keep our CI/CD process up to date

Who you are:

• 5+ years of experience, with at least 3+ years Dev Ops experience
• Strong understanding and experience managing cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS, Terraform and Kubernetes
• Understanding and hands-on experience with Python, Django, Celery, Redis, GitHub Actions, databases, distributed systems, and microservices
• Self-starter with excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to distill complex requirements into simplified solutions 
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and independently, you have a strong sense of ownership and urgency 
• Prior early-stage startup experience is a plus 

Benefits

We love working at Select Star and think you would too! Some of the benefits include:

• Remote first company - work from wherever you like
• Full medical benefits
• $1,000 annual stipend to improve your WFH set-up however you see fit
• Competitive compensation (including equity)

Our Values

• Be open and transparent - we share the good and the bad. We’re working towards a common goal and support each other along the way
• Be an owner - we have high standards and expect everyone to be responsible for upholding them
• Be practical - things will change, and that’s ok. Prioritize, execute, evaluate and plan. Then do it again

We believe that diversity is critical to success. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.