Data Dev-Ops Senior Cloud Engineer
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

Senior Dev- Ops Senior Cloud EngineerRedwood City, CA

Who we are:

IMVU envisions a world of deepening friendships through highly connective virtual shared experiences. Instead of posting past each other on Facebook or Instagram, IMVU user interactions are hyperpersonal - the experience is similar to the fidelity of face-to-face interaction, but at a heightened level, which enables users to find a meaningful connection like in the real world.

Today, we are studying ways to help people meet new friends and deepen their relationships. The essence of this work supports users making emotional connections and providing shared experiences that help them bond." IMVU currently has 4 million monthly active users (MAU) and is experiencing a huge year over year growth on mobile - 91% on iOS and 62% on Android.

Team:

The Data and Analytics team is focused on creating a competitive advantage for IMVU and our customers through novel data infrastructure, metrics, insights and data services. We are a small but rapidly growing analysis and engineering team that builds and leverages state-of-the-art analytics systems. Our work informs decisions and direction for our business, while also impacting our products. The petabyte of data we store and the hundreds of GB of transactional and events data that we process each day provide a great opportunity to apply machine learning techniques to design powerful and meaningful experiences to our users.

We are looking for a seasoned software or systems engineer who can help us migrate the Big data Infrastructure on-premise to cloud-based data technology stack: Spark/EMR, Redshift, DynamoDB, RDS, snowflake, kinesis, Lambda, etc. and build environments and deployment automation, infrastructure-as-service.

You are GREAT at doing this:

* Develop tools and procedures to monitor and automate system tasks on servers and clusters in Cloud


* Develop and manage applications in Amazon web services


* Knowledge and Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools like Bamboo, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes. Experience in the automated unit, integration, and end-end testing.


* Experience in AWS technologies such as EC2, Cloud formation, EMR Cluster, AWS S3, Splunk, and AWS Analytics.


* Ability to build systems that balance scalability, availability, and latency while solving different problems


* Familiarity with asynchronous messaging systems (e.g. Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)



Requirements:

* Ansible: 3 years (Preferred)


* DevOps: 6 years (Required)


* 6+ years as a software or systems engineer, with a minimum of 4+ years in release automation implementation.


* 4+ years' experience in designing, building and managing large scale application infrastructure in AWS.


* Strong experience with environment and deployment automation, infrastructure-as-service, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipeline specification, and development.


* Experience managing applications in Amazon web services and familiarity with all of their core, compute, networking, storage, security, compliance, serverless, and analytics offerings including AWS VPC networking, and IAM roles, etc.


* Expert Knowledge and Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools like Bamboo, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes. Experience in the automated unit, integration, and end-end testing.


* Support database environments including replication, log shipping, performance tuning, and backups


* Define, develop, and maintain monitoring and reporting infrastructure


* accountability for the end-to-end availability, efficiency, reliability, and security of our Big Data infrastructure in both AWS and datacenter.


* Experience building custom tools that automate day-to-day operational tasks on the new AWS platform.


* Knowledgeable and accountable for setting the standards of our production environment.


* self-driven and passionate about solving complex problems while maintaining a learning mindset when engaging with the team on ideas and solutions.


* Worked in agile project management and flexible when managing multiple and changing priorities.


* Participate in 24X7 on-call rotation investigating and responding to issues



Bonus Points:

* Experience with Free-to-play/social games


* Big data related AWS technologies like HIVE, Spark, ETL, AWS Glue, Presto, Hadoop, Athena, RedShift


* AWS certified: Architect/DevOps/Big Data


* Experience with Qubole, Airflow, and Hortonworks highly desired



ABOUT US

IMVU, the #1 avatar-based social network welcomes users to join a never-ending world where anything is possible, including connecting with people from all over the world. It's here that the fun is infinite and reality is limitless. The IMVU Virtual Shop is the largest of its kind, with an inventory of more than 20 million user-generated, VR-ready goods and growing everyday. From collections that include the hottest trends and throwback sneakers to fairy wings and couture gowns, the marketplace allows our users to personalize, customize and stylize their 3D avatars and environments to their hearts' content. With over three million unique users every month, our platform is poised for future growth and available on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Founded in 2004 and based in the heart of Silicon Valley, IMVU is led by a team that's dedicated to pioneering the virtual reality industry. IMVU is backed by venture investors Menlo Ventures, Allegis Capital, Bridgescale Partners and Best Buy Capital.

IMVU has been recognized frequently as Best Place to Work in the Silicon Valley.

HOW TO APPLY

* Please try out our core product before you apply. We'd like you to understand our products and have some understanding of our customers.


* Please include a cover letter. Make sure to discuss why you are interested in learning more about IMVU. Job applications without cover letters will not be considered.



IMVU is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.