DevOps Engineer- Automation & Tooling
SendGrid is looking for a passionate and Hungry technologist to join our Automation and Tooling in Engineering team to assist in continually improving our deployment pipelines. You will directly engage with development teams to assist in removing roadblocks that slow down the continuous deployment pipeline to production. This is a great opportunity for someone with a good Computer Science foundation to grow and learn in a high scale, distributed cloud-computing environment.
Denver is our global headquarters. Home to our second generation product -- Marketing Campaigns, and hub for our technical operations team. Here, we also tackle tough problems around machine learning and big data to combat The Evil that comes in the form of phishers and spammers and to ensure that our good customers deliver their mail successfully.
What You’ll Do- Live by and champion our cultural values of Happy, Hungry, Honest, and Humble
- Be the initial point of contact and work alongside Engineering and Operations to troubleshoot and debug deployment pipeline failures
- Write tooling and documentation to help improve performance of deployment pipelines
- Learn new technologies to aid our Continuous Delivery of software
- Dive deep into technologies like Jenkins, Chef, GitHub, Docker, Ruby and Python, AWS
- You have a 1-2 years working with one of the languages we use daily (Ruby, Python, Bash)
- You have 1-2 years experience with Git
- You’re a proactive problem solver but you know when to reach out to subject matter experts for guidance
- You are able to complete tasks with minimal supervision
- Ideally, you have had experience with Chef, Docker or Jenkins
Founded in 2009, SendGrid built its reputation solving a key pain point of delivering transactional emails that respond to customer behavior (purchase receipts, order confirmations, password resets, etc.). In 2015, SendGrid expanded the platform into marketing email use cases, enabling customers to have one platform for both transactional and marketing email. We deliver over 30 billion emails a month for customers like Airbnb, Spotify, and Yelp.
SendGrid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status.