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Sr. Software Engineer (DevOps), Engineering Excellence

Highspot

Highspot

Software Engineering
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posted on Thursday, August 1, 2024
About Highspot
Highspot is pioneering the category that is fundamentally changing the way companies increase sales productivity. On a mission to transform the way millions of people work with sales enablement, Highspot is committed to building breakthrough software with a spark of magic. We believe a great place to work is about more than the work – it’s about what the company stands for, and how it authentically represents its values in the real world. To this end, we have put intentional focus on creating equitable workspaces for each of our employees. Our goal is to create a culture where everyone feels a deep sense of belonging and is empowered to be an agent of change, with the ability to transform themselves, their workplace, and their world.
About the Role
We’re very proud of our customer loyalty and our rapid growth. Concurrent with this growth is the need to scale our platform and improve our infrastructure in a fast-paced environment to improve our productivity and engineering excellence. We’re looking for a senior backend engineer to help build our platform.
Our ideal candidate should have strong technical skills as an engineer and architect; has a track record of building and supporting large-scale software on public cloud providers such as AWS and Azure; is value-driven and cares deeply about culture; is self-managed, curious, and resourceful.

What You'll Do

  • Architect and build highly-available distributed services.
  • Improve CI/CD infrastructure to empower the entire engineering organization to deliver quality code with higher efficiency and higher velocity.
  • Design, develop, and test new infrastructure and services that improve developer productivity.
  • Improve the infrastructure observability and resolve issues quickly.
  • Author high-quality technical documentation.

Your Background

  • 8+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, not including internships/co-ops.
  • Proficiency in at least one of the modern programming languages: Java, Python, Go.
  • Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and other CNCF technologies.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD technologies.
  • Extensive experience architecting SaaS software platforms at scale.
  • Extensive experience managing and maintaining cloud infrastructure such as load balancer, ingress controller, rating limiter, etc.
  • Proficiency in supporting large-scale distributed systems in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • An entrepreneurial spirit: you’re agile, creative, resourceful, and tenacious as you solve problems and achieve team and company goals.
  • B.S/M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
Base salary range: $142,000 - $209,000. Employees are eligible to receive stock options and may also receive other forms of compensation.
The above represents total expected compensation for this role. Actual compensation will depend on various job-related factors, including, but not limited to, location, experience, and job qualifications.
Highspot also offers the following employee benefits for this position:
-Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life benefits
-Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and matching employer contributions (DPSP) with immediate vesting
-Flexible PTO
-Generous Holiday Schedule + 5 Days for Annual Holiday Week
-Quarterly Recharge Fridays (paid days off for mental health recharge)
-Flexible work schedules
-Access to Coaches and Therapists through Modern Health
-2 Volunteer days per year
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Equal Opportunity Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any grounds protected by applicable human rights legislation, which may include age, ancestry, citizenship, color, ethnicity, family status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or invisible disabilities, political belief, race, religion, or sexual orientation.
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