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Senior DevOps Engineer
2 years ago
Founded in 2007, Lumos Labs is the leader in brain training. Over 100 million users have used our Lumosity application to train their cognitive skills, playing our games over 7 billion times. We support trailblazing cognitive research and there have been over 20 peer-reviewed publications in academic journals using Lumosity games, assessments or data. We are building one of the premiere digital health brands and are looking for talented, mission-oriented people to join us on the journey. Lumos Labs is located in the SoMa area of San Francisco, CA with remote colleagues country- and world-wide. The Sr. DevOps Engineer position can be performed anywhere in the U.S.
You are a curious engineer that thinks about scaling applications infrastructure. You have the ability to quickly learn technology stacks and identify areas to improve the end user experience. We have the majority of our applications on Kubernetes (some still on ECS), and keep a lot of non-application infrastructure (Kafka, data stores, etc) on EC2 managed with Chef. The rest of our current stack is listed at
https://stackshare.io/lumosity/lumosity , and we’re constantly looking to build out more to support our user facing, data engineering, and data science teams.
YOU WILL
- Develop and maintain all aspects of operations infrastructure
- Create next-gen infrastructure supporting external and internal applications
- Predict scaling problems before they occur
- Employ preventive measures to maintain high availability servers that service 65 million requests a day
- Utilize AWS EC2, Kubernetes and Pulumi
YOU HAVE
- 4-6 years experience in site operations
- Strong software engineering, database, system administration, and infrastructure management skills
- Managed operations and infrastructure for a large-scale website
- Familiarity with the following technologies: AWS, Pulumi, deployment of Rails and nodejs applications, Serverless workers, Kubernetes/Docker, Memcached, Redis, Docker, and git
- Database management in MySQL and Postgresql, and overall Linux knowledge
- BA/BS in Computer Science or equivalent.
WE OFFER
- The excitement and fun of the early-stage startup paired with the maturity and stability of a later-stage business with substantial revenue and company infrastructure
- Competitive compensation, including salary and benefits on-par with later-stage companies, and equity compensation on-par with earlier-stage ones
- An egoless environment that fosters collaboration of all types. We have a culture of ownership, trust, camaraderie, and funA focus on sustainability -- in our products, our business, and for our employees
- A culture that values coming together and sharing our varied interests to illuminate new and inspiring ideas, all with a focus on helping our users make meaningful improvements in their lives
- The opportunity to learn, grow, and bond with a tight community of coworkers based in SF, and with teammates around the world (OR, WA, NJ, SD, MD, CT, IL, NV, Germany, Brazil, Serbia, Ukraine, India)
- Competitive benefits (options for individual and/or domestic partner/family medical, dental and vision plans, EAP, FSA, commuter benefits, parental and other leaves, One Medical membership and much more!)
- A collaborative culture where growth from within is encouraged
- Continuous learning budget for conferences, professional and skill development
- Flexible time off to rest, reset, and recharge
- Flexible and remote work arrangements
- Monthly wellness, internet, and cell phone reimbursements
- Fun social events such as board game nights, work anniversary celebrations, weekly happy hours, and quarterly company-wide events
- Team lunches and off-sites (past excursions include creative retreats, cooking classes, escape rooms, and terrarium building)
- Regular creative learning sessions, skill shares, forums, guest speakers, and workshops
- We recognize family is important -- we host Bring Your Child to Work Day annually as well as other kid-friendly offsite events
- We empower employees to give back to our community -- our DEI team facilitates this through activities and initiatives year-round
Lumos Labs values diversity and recognizes that employees from a broad range of perspectives improves both the practice of science and the brain training experience for everyone. We are committed to inclusion, diversifying tech, and advocating for diversity in our employees, their experiences, and the people we serve.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
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