DevOps Engineering Manager
Irvine, CA

Job Description

DevOps Engineering Manager

Overview:

As the DevOps Engineering Manager on the Weedmaps team, you will work closely with our DevOps Engineers to define and shape the future of our cloud infrastructure at Weedmaps. You will use your leadership skills to grow the team, prioritize technical tasks with Leadership and deliver on specified dates. You will use your management skills to mentor junior team members and grow the careers of your seniors. You will leverage your experience to reduce toil on the team and keep a tight focus on the business value provided by the requested features. As the leader in this emerging industry, we are helping to define the market landscape. We invite you to join in that effort.

Qualifications:

* Extensive cloud infrastructure and containerization experience
* Strong familiarity with AWS and their service offerings (EC2, RDS, Elasticsearch, S3, etc.)
* Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
* Minimum of 5 - 10 years' infrastructure development experience at startup / mid-sized companies
* Minimum of 4 years of leadership / management experience, 2 years leading infrastructure teams
* Must have strong teamwork orientation and the ability to promote collaboration within teams
* Experience working with and leading distributed teams
* Strong ability to support and mentor team members to accomplish team goals
* Effective and persuasive communication skills at all levels of management, both written and verbal
* Experience working collaboratively at a high level with other teams within an organization
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent degree / work experience
* Ability to take a leadership role in an Agile (ScrumBan) environment
* Fluency using Git and GitHub in a team environment

Responsibilities:

* Take ownership of significant features, driving them from development to production
* Collaborate closely with management of other teams including Software Engineering and our Internal Tooling team
* Lead teams of Senior level DevOps engineers, while coaching more junior level engineers
* Communicate development issues, team challenges, and overall productivity of teams with executive leadership
* Deliver performance reviews for your team members and set up performance goals
* Manage and motivate team to accomplish significant deliverables within tight deadlines
* Influence quality and productivity improvements through involvement in the development of new and improved procedures, process innovations, training, and changes in corporate culture
* Cultivate a culture of engineering excellence at a rapidly growing company

Pluses:

* Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and monitoring/alerting
* Experience with Service Oriented Architecture

Our Benefits:

* Fully covered Medical, Dental, and Vision for employee AND dependents
* Matching 401k, 50% match up to 6% of employee contribution
* 3 weeks PTO and 5 sick days
* Accident Insurance
* Basic Life/AD&D (Accidental Death and Dismemberment)
* Voluntary Short and Long Term Disability
* Flexible Spending Account
* Catered lunch provided 5 days a week
* All the equipment that you need to get your work done
* Fridge is always stocked with energy drinks and other snacks
* Casual work environment, read "no suit and tie required", but you are free to dress to the nines

Weedmaps is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. We are looking for the smartest and most passionate people who want to join our team and develop the services, systems, and marketplaces that will serve the marijuana industry in the decades to come. Our company uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.

About Weedmaps:

Founded in 2008, Weedmaps is a leading technology and software infrastructure provider to the cannabis industry. Our suite of cloud-based software and data solutions includes point of sale, logistics and ordering solutions that enable customers to scale their businesses while complying with the complex and disparate regulations applicable to the cannabis industry. In addition, our platform provides consumers with information regarding cannabis products across web and mobile platforms, including listing local retailers and brands, facilitating product discovery and allowing consumers to educate themselves on cannabis and its history, uses and legal status. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Weedmaps employs more than 400 professionals around the world, with offices including Barcelona, Berlin, Boston, Denver, New York, Phoenix and Toronto.

So what are you waiting for? Join the Weedmaps family!