This position is for a team with specialized expertise in Hootsuite’s core platform services and tools and is part of the DevOps group at Hootsuite. We are responsible for our network edge, client authorization, Kafka cluster and tooling, encryption, api and service tooling and more. The team is also stewards of a monolithic application for which we set standards, improve ownership and tooling and lead other teams on how to modernize the monolith. The team mainly uses Go,Scala and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services and some infrastructure as code tools. As a full-stack developer, your primary focus will be on backend development and DevOps tasks but you will also be expected to sometimes collaborate with frontend teams and work on some of our frontend tasks. While working remotely (In British Columbia of Alberta) or in a hybrid work arrangement, a blend of virtual (in accordance with Hootsuite’s distributed workforce strategy), or in Hootsuite’s Vancouver office you will report to the Manager, Software Development, Dev-Ops.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Tenacious. You are determined to succeed, and you are motivated by the success of customers, colleagues and the community.
• Curious. You are always learning and seeking ways to make things better.
• Conscientious. You keep your promises, taking your commitments to others seriously, and you have strong integrity.
• Humble. You lead with humility and empathy, respecting and learning from the perspectives of others.
  In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:
  Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp
  One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe
  Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed
  Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile
  Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses
  Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies
  Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
  

  LI-NS1 #LI-Hybri

• Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services
• Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform
• Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department
• Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks
• Design and build our platform
• 
  
  
  
• Identify and implement new platform features

• Research and evaluate new technologies
• Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features
• Operate our platform services
• 
  
  
  
• Respond to incidents

• Diagnose and repair bugs
• Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations
• Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work
• Enable development teams
• 
  
  
  
• Provide executable interfaces to our platform

• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
• Work collaboratively within the team and across the organization to solve difficult and exciting cross-portfolio problems
• Get involved with various cross-portfolio developer groups in the org to help promote good practices and set better standards for other dev teams to follow
• Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos