DevOps Team Lead
Redwood City, CA

Job Description

DevOps Team Lead

At AnchorFree, our mission is to provide secure access to the world's information for every person on the planet. AnchorFree has grown into a service with millions of users in nearly 200 countries. Our flagship products, Hotspot Shield and Betternet, regularly top the App Store charts in Productivity and enables millions of users to securely and privately access the Internet every day. Last year, AnchorFree closed a $295 million investment led by WndrCo and Accel Partners, with further development plans for Hotspot Shield and other products in our suite.

We are looking for a DevOps Team Lead to work with our DevOps team on designing and implementing our next generation infrastructure. This Engineer will impact the 4 cornerstones of our infrastructure: infrastructure as a code, continuous deployment, large scale, and high availability.

Job Responsibilities:

* Design, integrate, and deploy infrastructure for rapid application software deployment.
* Test new technologies and tools in the lab, and decide which can be adopted by the company on a global level.
* Ensure global observability.
* Keep calm and change the world.

Job Qualifications:

* B.S. in computer science or equivalent work experience
* 5+ years of DevOps experience or software development with expertise in Python or Golang
* 3+ years of technical team leadership skills
* Proficient in shell scripting, plus know when to stop scripting and start developing
* Experience using configuration management systems: Ansible or SaltStack
* Elegant coding style with sufficient documentation
* Knowledge of key software design principles (separation of concerns, single responsibility, DRY, etc)
* In-depth understanding of Linux architecture, networking and kernel tuning
* Experience using Git for version control
* Hands-on experience with Docker
* Experience with large-scale, highly-available distributed systems and knowledgable on best practices
* Your hands aren't shaking when half of the world's internet is "down"
* Other skills that are a plus!
* Terraform
* Kubernetes
* Prometheus
* ELK stack
* Hadoop and BigData
* Microservices
* Agile software development methodology



AnchorFree Compensation and Benefits:

* Competitive salary
* Excellent employee stock option plan
* Relocation assistance available
* $175 per month electric car incentives
* Free food and drinks
* Foosball, Gym and showers, Pool table, Table Tennis
* FREE Medical, Dental and Vision
* 401k
* Commuter Benefits
* Free Shuttle from San Francisco,CA
* Dog friendly office

About the Product

AnchorFree are the creators of a powerful technology platform that has been transformational for millions of people around the world, enabling connectivity, privacy, and freedom. The crown jewel of our family of products, Hotspot Shield is available for users on iOS, Android, PC and Mac. 200,000 new users download Hotspot Shield every day, making it one of the top 100 most popular iOS apps in App Store and the #1 top grossing app in the Productivity category. Powered by a proprietary VPN technology, Hotspot Shield is the world's most popular Wi-Fi security application. Hotspot Shield is the #1 enabler for users to get Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube in places where access to these apps or sites is restricted or censored. AnchorFree is also powering partners with its proprietary VPN technology available as an SDK, enabling app developers to integrate security, privacy and Internet freedom into their apps.

About the Culture

AnchorFree lives, sleeps, and breathes their core mission of enabling secure access to the world's information for every person on the planet. AnchorFree is one of the few companies that is actually changing the world by providing users with basic human rights (Internet Freedom and Privacy), while driving solid year over year growth and shareholder value.

Learn more about us here:

AnchorFree website: http://www.AnchorFree.com

Hotspot Shield website: http://www.HotspotShield.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HotspotShield

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HotspotShield

Blog: http://blog.hotspotshield.com