Job Description

DevOps Team Lead (click here to apply)

We’re looking for a smart and motivated DevOps leader to help us map the world’s food chain, make it as safe as possible, and empower people to make informed decisions about the food they eat. We track millions of data points every day and connect thousands of food companies around the world.

Our technology enables supplier management, food safety compliance, quality incident management, recall management and whole chain traceability – all on a single platform built exclusively for the food industry.

Our backend tech stack currently consists of Go. Our data stores include MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, and Redis. Our infrastructure runs on AWS using a combination of managed services like Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS as well as EC2 instances managed by Ansible/Terraform and other tools. These EC2 instances run everything from our databases to our application services.

Technical Responsibilities

• Building out our Ansible/Terraform infrastructure to include additional services, increased redundancy/scalability, and harnessing new features.
• Scale our MongoDB clusters to support our data growth
• Tune our MongoDB and Neo4j databases
• Continuously improve our API performance and resiliency
• Tighten security across our infrastructure
• Implement autoscaling techniques that balance performance, workload demands and costs
• Experience with Kafka + Confluence + Snowflake
• Improve our CI/CD process making builds/deployments faster and safer
• Further develop our Prometheus/Grafana monitoring infrastructure
• Enhance our Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana (ELK) logging stack

Leadership responsibilities

• Continue to support our high availability (24x7x365) infrastructure design and deployment
• Support a customer-centric culture within the DevOps team 
• Leading the strategy, roadmap, and goals for the DevOps team
• Coordinating with other engineers on current and upcoming infrastructure needs for Product and overall business goals
• Having the primary responsibility for the stability, performance, and security of our infrastructure
• Assist with additional needs from the business such as review of customer RFP responses, customer security assessments, etc. 
• Hiring/growing the team as needed, while keeping a high quality bar

Qualifications

• Have 2+ years managing & leading an engineering team, including experience recruiting/hiring great engineers
• Have a servant leadership attitude with the ability to foster a collaborative and positive work environment, especially when there is a critical incident
• Have real world experience building scalable systems, working with large data sets, and troubleshooting various back-end challenges under pressure
• Experience working with large databases running on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Mongo
• Have experience configuring monitoring, logging, and other tools to provide visibility and actionable alerts
• Enjoy automating processes using Python, bash, Ansible, or other scripting languages
• Have experience with Docker containers and microservices
• Understand the full web stack, networking, and low level Unix computing
• Always be thinking of ways to improve reliability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure

Why FoodLogiQ?

• The work we do at FoodLogiQ impacts one of the largest industries in the world – the food we eat. We are on a mission to map the world’s food chain, make it as safe as possible, and empower people to make informed decisions about the food they eat.
• We’re a small and growing company in an evolving industry – which means there is ample opportunity for career learning on the job.
• Remote Work – While our headquarters are in Durham, NC, you can work from anywhere.
• Flexible PTO – We trust and encourage our teammates to take time off when they need to recharge.
• We offer competitive benefits, including highly-subsidized insurance.

FoodLogiQ is an “equal opportunity employer.” We will not discriminate and will take “affirmative action” measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, or sex.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Salaries: 100,000 and above.

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