DevOps Engineer (North America)

Hotjar is looking for a driven and ambitious DevOps Engineer based in a US timezone to support and expand our cloud-based infrastructure used by thousands of sites around the world. The Hotjar infrastructure currently processes more than 8,300 API requests per second, delivers over a billion pieces of static content every week and hosts databases well into terabyte-size ranges, making this an interesting and challenging opportunity.

This is an excellent career opportunity to join a fast growing remote startup in a key position.

In this position, you will:

• Be part of the team building and maintaining our sites and web applications.
• Choose, deploy and manage tools and technologies to build and support a robust infrastructure.
• Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks and improving performance of all our systems.
• Ensure all necessary monitoring, alerting and backup solutions are in place.
• Do research and keep up to date on trends in big data processing and large scale analytics.
• Implement proof of concept solutions in the form of prototype applications.

Requirements

• Strong working knowledge of Amazon AWS.
• 2 or more years of professional experience with systems administration or DevOps.
• Experience with Python, Nginx and PostgreSQL.
• Not required but experience in any of the following is considered to be an asset: Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcached, Jenkins, Mercurial, Vagrant, Docker.

Desired Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• DevOps
• Docker
• Elasticsearch
• Jenkins
• Mercurial
• Nginx
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Vagrant

Contact Info

• Company Website: https://www.hotjar.com/