DevOps Engineer, Venice, CA
Venice, CA

Job Description

Credit Karma's mission is to champion financial progress for everyone. We have over 80 million members in US and are now taking aim internationally. If you're motivated by growth and impact, Credit Karma is one of the best places to work in tech today. We are growing our product beyond credit scores (e.g. Tax, Auto, Mortgage) and are well-positioned to become the main touchpoint for consumer finance. We have adopted a culture where engineers are inspired to find opportunities to scale the product, technology, and organization, and then launch them into action. See some of our stories at engineering.creditkarma.com.

The DevOps Engineer role is a high visibility role at Credit Karma that requires a balance of communication, teamwork, technical understanding of applications/systems, and follow through to make lasting impact on process and procedures.

Your role will be to improve automation, tools, processes, and communications related to running systems and applications. The DevOps/Infrastructure Engineering team is responsible for taking the complicated world of site operations and making it easy for teams to run reliable and performant services.

What you'll do:

* Design, code, and evolve the core PaaS offerings on which CK's applications are developed and runWrite code and integrate with frameworks and open-source tools such as service discovery and orchestration
* Perform technical design and code reviews to ensure best practices for services
* Develop best practices for deploying and operating microservices in production environment and train teams to imbibe these best practices in their devops culture
* Drive resolution for all high severity issues impacting all systems and services
* Collaborate with engineering teams throughout the company to develop and own improvements across the organization
* Responsible for the completion of incident retrospective/post-mortem reviews
* Be available to participate with fellow Credit Karma employees in an on-call rotation

What's great about it:

* Be part of the team that will be building the foundation for Credit Karma
* Chance to build this function from almost the ground up that will deliver business value by increasing uptime and reducing MTTR
* Leverage your experience to build the best possible framework that's suited for Credit Karma's availability goals
* Work within an engineering environment that leverages well-known and cutting edge technologies to learn and grow your own skills and experience
* Support a product that has a direct positive financial impact

What kind of experience are we looking for?

* 4+ years of professional experience in server-side website development
* Strong coding skills in a language such as Scala, PHP, Java, Go, Python, Ruby
* Solid understanding of large-scale web application system architectures running on Linux
* Experience with Docker, service discovery, and orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes
* Experience with a configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
* Experience working with large-scale service-oriented production environments
* Experience with AWS or GCP a plus
* Strong incident management skills and domain knowledge with the ability to apply them in devops centric environment
* Someone who can easily communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues in high-pressure situations

Credit Karma is committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We believe that such an environment advances long-term professional growth, creates a robust business, and supports our mission of championing financial progress for everyone. We offer generous benefits and perks with an eye single to fostering an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions of all. We've worked hard to build an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive employee culture, and the opportunity for professional growth. As part of the Credit Karma team, your voice will be heard, your contributions will matter, and your unique background and experiences will be celebrated.

Credit Karma is also proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome all candidates without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical condition), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. Our people are everything, our core values are real, and our guiding mission is strong. Join us!