Senior Engineer (Platform)

at  Oyster HR

✨ ONE PLATFORM, A WHOLE WORLD OF OPPORTUNITY

Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world’s wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are everywhere. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.
When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We’re proof that companies don’t need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company’s inception in January 2020, Oyster has:
Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries
‍Featured in Forbes having ranked #9 in Flexjobs Top 30 Companies for remote jobs
Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that’s 60% female
Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class
Raised $286 million to date, with a current valuation of $1.2 billion!
Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we’re just getting started! If you want to change the world with Oyster and be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we’d love for you to apply!

CORE REQUIREMENTS

• A total of 5+ years of experience in software development, with at least 3 years of experience deploying and operating web applications in production using a modern language and framework (Ruby, Python, PHP, Node, Go, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of observability, telemetry, and monitoring (OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Sentry, etc.)
• Proven experience operating infrastructure hosted on Linux operating systems.
• Significant experience with hosting in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Proven experience maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines (Harness CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Practices TDD and understands the nuances and complexities of browser tests.
• Deployment and provisioning, ideally via Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Worked with containerization.
• Skilled with shell scripting.
• Ability to communicate effectively with engineers and stakeholders at any level.
• [BONUS] Experience hosting web applications on Heroku (using CLI and page to maintain infrastructure).
• [BONUS] OS-agnostic scripting and automation that aims to support a fleet of macOS and Linux development machines.
• [BONUS] Strong remote experience.

‍ THE ROLE

Location: While this position is posted in a specific location, all of Oyster’s positions are fully remote and you can work from home. Forever. To create the best experience for our new hire, this role requires you to be based within +3 / -5 UTC.
We’re expanding our Engineering function with the addition of a new Platform role, focusing on elevating Developer Experience and Platform Operations by crafting tools that enhance productivity, remove obstacles, and decrease complexity. Our aim is to improve the flow state for everyone in the Engineering department.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own and operate current and future infrastructure.
• Develop and guide strategic initiatives to support our Platform, including hosting, CI/CD, and telemetry.
• Be a force multiplier; research and develop tooling to remove drag from the product development lifecycle.
• Be a steward of Service Ownership; partner with Product Development teams to empower them to successfully monitor their own modules, services, and endpoints.
• Leverage tools such as Static Code Analysis, Tests, and even custom Shell Scripts to enhance our processes and ensure high-quality results.
• Plan and implement migrations from current technology stacks to fulfill tomorrow’s needs.
• Keep the success rate of Continuous Integration builds in Merge Queue above 90%, and take part in creating more metrics.
• Work on future improvements of our CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain a consistent development framework with reusable CLI across projects. Aim for portable, vendor-agnostic solutions.
• Partner with Product Development teams to enable them to monitor their own modules, services, and endpoints successfully.
• Gradually work towards detecting issues before they happen in production while empowering others to do the same.
• Enhance Test Driven Development experience to provide faster feedback loops, effectively decreasing cycle time.