ABOUT US:
Our company was established in January 2008 to provide white-label e-commerce software, hardware and marketing solutions to artists, brands, promoters and venues, enabling them to sell tickets directly to consumers.
With offices strategically positioned in London, Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and São Paulo, CrowdSurge has a growing track record of successful initiatives aimed at closing the gap between rights-holders and their customers.
Over the last five years, CrowdSurge has grown into a market leader in the direct-to-consumer space, powering worldwide programs for artists such as Alicia Keys, Arcade Fire, Jack White, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Paul McCartney and The xx, while maintaining a strong presence in the business-to-business space, facilitating e-commerce for companies like BBC Worldwide, Converse and Sony Music Entertainment.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
We are looking for a few more great DevOps Engineers!
We are building a new ticketing platform for the biggest musicians and artists in the world and we need your help to do it. Do you want to provide thought leadership to teams of top-quality engineers on how to build highly scalable cloud based applications? Do you love hands-on coding? Passionate about Agile development, TDD, Automating everything, and Continuous Delivery? Are you excited about the latest generation configuration management software like Chef? Well, then we should talk.
Let’s start building modern apps together that can instantly scale to serve millions of users!
EXPERTISE:
- End-to-end knowledge of various web technology stacks (nodejs, Rails, Django, etc)
- Chef or Puppet at scale
- Amazon Web Services
- Hands-on experience building deployment pipelines and automated testing environments
- Unix system administration (file system, sockets, pipes, scheduler)
- SQL & NoSQL Databases
- In memory datastores
- Queuing and messaging
- Agile development practices
- Monitoring & Alerting
- Graphing
- CDN Technologies
- Load testing
OUR INFRASTRUCTURE:
We want you to be enthused by our stack, and be excited to work on it!
- All AWS - Ubuntu Linux
- Heavily use Chef, Berkshelf, Foodcritic, Testkitchen, chefspec, BATS, rspec, etc.
- Cloudformation & Autoscaling groups
- Continuous delivery pipelines with Jenkins & Chef
- Federated Graphite, Statsd
- Sensu
- Datadog
- Logstash, Elasticsearch
- Gatling Load testing framework
- Lita Hip Chat bots
- Dashing Dashboards
OUR APPLICATION STACK:
- Datastores - MySql, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached
- Programming languages - GoLang, AngularJS, PHP
- Message Queuing - RabbitMQ
YOUR PASSIONS:
- Automating all the things with the right tools
- Making sure everything is repeatable and testable
- Solving scaling and architechtural challenges
- Enabling developers to visualize, interact, and manipulate infrastucture
- Continuous integration and delivery
- Working at a start-up pace with high-energy team
- Coding standards, code reviews, distributed revision control systems, continuous test/build/deploy, and production support
HOW TO APPLY:
- Your CV/Resume in PDF format
- A link to your Github account or other open source contributions
- A few code snippets that you think represent your coding style
- A one or two paragraph description of your skills, passions and work style
COMPENSATION:
- Competitive Salary
- Medical, dental and vision benefits
- Employer-matched 401(k) plan
- Profit-sharing plan
The company is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting and retaining the most qualified employees.