About Zipline Zipline is a wellfunded, rapidly growing SaaS company transforming how frontline teams work. We empower the worlds leading brands across retail, healthcare, logistics, and beyond to connect, align, and inspire their employeesfrom headquarters to the front lines. Our customers consistently give us bestinclass NPS and CSAT scores, and they rave about how Zipline makes their teams lives easier and their businesses more effective. Were also a fully remote company, with passionate employees across the U.S., Canada, and around the globe. About Ziplines Platform Team The Zipline Platform Team enables Zipline to innovate quickly and safely by ensuring our platform is reliable, secure, observable, and scalable. We build and maintain the foundational infrastructure, tooling, and operational practices that empower our product engineering teams to ship with confidence. Our mission is to continuously improve production excellence and developer experience through automation, strong observability, resilient infrastructure, and thoughtful operational practices. We partner closely with engineering teams to reduce toil, manage risk, and ensure Ziplines systems perform reliably at scale. About the Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer , you will play a handson role in operating and improving Ziplines cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and production reliability. You will own well defined infrastructure and reliability responsibilities endtoend, while collaborating closely with application engineers to embed DevOps and SRE best practices throughout the development lifecycle. This role blends cloud operations, infrastructure development, and reliability engineering, with meaningful oncall ownership and clear opportunities to grow into deeper system ownership over time. What Youll Do Partner with product and platform engineering teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and developer experience Build, maintain, and evolve CI/CD pipelines to support safe, fast, and reliable deployments Improve observability through better monitoring, alerting, logging, and telemetry Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to manage cloud resources safely and reproducibly Operate and scale containerized workloads (Kubernetes, Docker) Support and evolve Zipline''s AWSbased cloud infrastructure (experience with GCP or Azure is a plus) Assist our Data team in codifying and maintaining our data warehouse and ML infrastructure on GCP Participate in an oncall rotation, responding to and resolving production incidents Contribute to incident followups and postmortems by helping implement durable fixes and reduce operational toil Collaborate with Railsfocused product teams to improve reliability, performance, and deployment workflows What We Look For Production experience operating and supporting cloudbased systems Proficiency with at least one programming or scripting language (Ruby preferred; TypeScript/JavaScript a plus) Experience working with a major cloud provider (AWS preferred) Handson experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar) Familiarity with CI/CD systems (CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.) Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS) Working knowledge of observability practices and tools (Datadog, Sentry, Prometheus, etc.) Strong communication skills and a collaborative, serviceoriented mindset Comfort working as a remote contributormanaging time, communicating clearly, and delivering reliably Pride in building systems and tooling that are maintainable, welldocumented, and easy for others to use Technologies You''ll Work With AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker Google Cloud (Datastream, Vertex, BigQuery) GitHub, CircleCI Ruby on Rails (in partnership with product teams) Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch Datadog, Sentry Slack, JIRA, Google Drive Compensation At Zipline, were committed to paying our team fairly, transparently, and in a way that supports growth. This role is targeting an annual salary within Canada of $122,688 CAD to $149,952 CAD. The broad salary ranges reflect the growth someone will experience in the rolefrom developing skills to reaching expertise within their career level. Weve found that hiring team members with the expectation of being accomplished in the role sets them up for success, which for this position on the Canadian band is $122,688 CAD. Salaries below this point typically reflect someone with potential but still building the necessary skills, while salaries above are for individuals already excelling in the role, with a deep understanding of Ziplines impact on customers, product, and company. At Zipline, youll continue to have career development conversations with your manager to ensure your compensation grows as you advance. Our salary ranges are determined by market, factoring in our revenue and employee size and paying competitively. In higher cost of living markets, we apply 510% multipliers on our ranges, depending on the location, to maintain competitive compensation and reflective of the increased expenses our team members face in those areas. While we primarily hire in Canada and the USA, we are a global employer, and all hiring regions will use the same methodology to determine fair and transparent pay. Transparency is key to building trust in our compensation process. To better understand how this range is determined, we encourage you to ask as many questions as youd like about compensation during the interview process to ensure clarity and confidence. Whats In It For You Remotefirst culture: Join a high performing, fully remote team and work where youre comfortable Stock Options : Get meaningful ownership in a fastgrowing, venturebacked company shaping the future of retail. Time off: We believe rest fuels great work. Our flexible timeoff policy gives you the freedom to take the breaks you need, when you need themwhether its a long weekend or a welldeserved vacation. Well also give you a monthly coffeeshop stipend to switch up your workspace and get inspired outside the office. And when youve been with us for five years? Youll earn a fully paid onemonth sabbatical to truly unplug and reflectwe call it a thankyou for your impact and dedication. Benefits: Worldclass medical, dental, and vision policies. Team Connection: Annual company offsites in fun locations. Weve done New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, Palm Springs, San Diego, and Mexico City. Volunteering: Every quarter, Zipliners get a paid day off to volunteer for a nonprofit of their choice. Learning : We support continuous learning and provide unlimited access to our Udemy Business account Great humans, great work: Work with kind, collaborative teammates who care about doing meaningful work and making a real impact. We value diversity of all kinds and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. Want to learn more about how we work? We may be remote, but were anything but disconnected. Zipline is a thriving, dynamic team spread across the globecollaborating, innovating, and having a blast along the way. Zipliners work from all overvans, boats, Airbnbs, and everything in between. No office? No problem. Our culture still feels like one big hug. Even though were distributed, we make space to connectwhether its our weekly allcompany social or gathering in person at our yearly retreats. Were building something meaningful together, and were glad youre considering being a part of it. We cant wait to meet you! How We Hire We use AI tools to support our recruitment process, including helping us organize applications and identify early matches based on role criteria. That said, every rejection decision is made by a human. We encourage candidates to apply authentically and avoid relying solely on AIgenerated responses, especially during interviews. This opportunity is offered through HighlightTA, the ondemand talent team supporting Ziplines growth. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Senior DevOps Engineer