Junior Software Engineer - DevOps
Austin, TX

Job Description

Description

Wearable technology is revolutionizing the enterprise and with our platform, Skylight, the largest companies in the world deliver more efficiently, with higher quality, and in a safer environment.

Skylight relies on a robust back-end service stack that coordinates and connects these wearable devices to the necessary business systems already in place. Our platform needs to be flexible enough to run in the cloud or in our customers' data centers. Our customers are big and because of this we need to make sure that we put scalability, flexibility, and security first.

We're looking for talented software engineers to add to the team that tackles these challenges. If you're interested in building services that scale up to internet-scale or down to a single customer datacenter and have what it takes to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you. The candidate selected for this position will:

* Work with customer-facing teams to gather and verify requirements
* Own the implementation of deploying, upgrading, and scaling the platform in our SaaS environment
* Own the implementation of deploying, upgrading, and scaling the platform in customer data centers
* Provide input during the architectural design process
* Be an active participant in iterating and improving engineering processes
* Occasionally work with customer-facing teams providing support for technical issues regarding networking, triaging issues, and providing IT consultations for best practices on deploying the solution into customer data centers.

Successful candidates must demonstrate a passion not only for technology, but for our mission to elevate the impact of people in the connected industrial workspace. All applicants must have a BA/BS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or demonstrate equivalent work experience. Candidates hoping to be considered should demonstrate:

* A track record deploying highly scalable, secure, production-grade back-end services
* Experience in deployment automation frameworks such as Ansible or Salt
* Strong experience with 1 or more major cloud providers (preferably AWS)
* Proficient with git and CI/CD processes and tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI or other
* Experience with containerization using Docker
* Experienece with the development of REST-based web services
* Experience with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Couchbase, or similar
* Experience with relational data stores such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar
* Experience with in-memory data stores such as Redis or memcached
* Knowledge of microservices architectural patterns

Ideal candidates will build on top of that foundation and demonstrate:

* Knowledge of container orchestration utilizing Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or similar
* Knowledge of service logging with the EFK stack or similar
* Knowledge of service monitoring with Prometheus or similar
* Knowledge of API management at scale

Compensation and Benefits

* Competitive salary commensurate with experience, including cash + equity
* Generous medical/dental/vision package
* Unlimited vacation policy; work hard and take time when you need it
* The freedom to think and create without boundaries

About Upskill

Recently recognized as a 2016 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Upskill is the industry leader in wearable technology for the connected workforce. Our award-winning software platform, Skylight, powers wearable devices such as smart glasses, and is used by some of the largest and most recognized companies in the world. We help companies deliver their products and services more efficiently, with higher quality, and in a safer environment using our technology. We are in a brand-new industry that is transforming how hands-on work in complex manufacturing, field services, logistics and other sectors is getting done. To learn more about us, visit www.upskill.io.