Staff Software Engineer - DevOps (Delighted)

Company: Qualtrics
Location: Dallas
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

The Qualtrics XM Platform--- is a system of action that helps businesses to attract customers who stay longer and buy more, to engage and empower employees to do the best work of their lives, to develop breakthrough products people love, and to build a brand people can't imagine living without.Joining Qualtrics means becoming part of a team bold enough to chase breakthrough experiences - like building a technology that will be a force for good. A team committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion because of a conviction that every voice holds value, with a vision for representation that matches the world around us and inclusion that far exceeds it. You could belong to a team whose values center on transparency, being all in, having customer obsession, acting as one team, and operating with scrappiness. All so you can do the best work of your career.We believe every interaction is an opportunity. Are we yours?Delighted is a Qualtrics company that provides the fastest and easiest way to gather customer feedback and put it into the hands of those who can act on it. Using a single question and an open-ended comment box, Delighted helps companies align customers' needs with business growth, measure the customer voice over time and keep customers coming back. 2,500+ organizations worldwide rely on Delighted to collect, analyze, and act on customer feedback.We are a small design-driven team, focused on impeccable user experience. Simplicity, quality, and care inform our decisions and processes. We believe in a collaborative, feedback-rich design process, and feel that excellent experiences can only come from teams who care deeply.**About you**You are a seasoned DevOps Engineer who evaluates all of your work through the lens of user experience. You've successfully worked on infrastructure and development tooling for several different products but you also love to work directly on product features from time to time. You prioritize reliability and security.**What you'll work on**As our first DevOps engineer, you'll own our infrastructure and development tooling and take the lead on designing a resilient and scalable system. You will collaborate closely with the entire engineering team, who will work alongside you on a range of DevOps projects, including:+ Enhancing systems to be scalable, automated and well-documented.+ Improving security at all layers of the system, including VPC and firewalls.+ Migrating production backend services such as MySQL, Redis + Elasticsearch, with minimal or no downtime.+ Provisioning fast staging and CI environments.+ Aggregating logs and providing tools for engineering to track down bugs.+ Running and optimizing our email delivery infrastructure.Our team is versatile, so you will be able to tackle a wide range of projects, including product feature work in our Rails app. We want DevOps to be a shared effort across the engineering team at Delighted - with you as the owner and leader.**Technical background**+ We run our infrastructure on AWS. You have managed and optimized AWS deployments at scale and you have expertise with AWS network security.+ On the application tier, we run Ruby on Rails. You have experience building features for and managing large Ruby applications at scale.+ On the database tier, we use AWS managed MySQL, Elasticsearch and Redis. You know how to operate these systems reliably at scale.+ The glue between our front-end and back-end is HTTP, so you should have a solid understanding of this part of the stack including: cookies, caching, AJAX, cross-domain sharing, security issues, etc.+ We write automated tests for all our code. You have expertise running reliable CI and staging environments for developers.+ We send lots of emails. Experience with sending email at scale is a plus, including an understanding of authenticated email standards including DKIM, SPF and DMARC.+ BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.+ 5+ years of relevant engineering experience.**How to apply**If you're interested, please send your resume with a link to your Github account and any products you've worked on recently of which you are particularly proud.**U.S Pay Transparency**The base pay range for this position in the US is $146.0k - $277.0k per year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, education, skills, and experience. A sign-on bonus and restricted stock units may be included in an employment offer, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and other benefits, based on eligibility criteria.Qualtrics is an Equal Opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at Qualtrics are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

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