Senior Software Developer, DevOps

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team.

Based out of British Columbia, you will report into the Senior Manager, Devops.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts

Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based Linux infrastructure

Participate in a flexible on-call rotation

Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features

Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department

Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks

Design and build our infrastructure platform

Identify and implement new platform features

Research and evaluate new technologies

Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features

Operate our developer experience and production application environments

Diagnose and repair our distributed systems

Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations

Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work

Enable development teams

Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform

Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle

Collaborate with others across the organization to solve problems and build better processes, systems, and software

Communicate by mentoring, writing documentation, participating in meetings, and sharing your work at demos

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, and at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact

Experience with mentoring, coaching, and pairing with coworkers

Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale and an understanding of SaaS software development practice; Ideally you have experience working on a SaaS product

Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools to build and run cloud infrastructure

Experience with operating, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure and a working knowledge of Linux systems administration, including troubleshooting system-level issues, networking (L3-L7) and basic monitoring is preferred

Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs

Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions

Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems and looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems and proposes several possible solutions.

Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects

WHO YOU ARE:

Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.

Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.

Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.

Intentional collaborator. You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.

Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.

Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.

Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.

Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.

Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.

In all we do, our six guiding principles light the way:

Step Up: Show the world what it looks like to live and work by these guiding principles. #StepUp

One Team: Make Hootsuite a place where everyone feels safe, welcome, valued, and empowered to do their best work without compromising who they are. #OneTeam #FreeToBeMe

Customer Obsessed: Focus relentlessly on helping our customers succeed. #CustomerObsessed

Go Fast, Be Agile: Widen our competitive advantage by committing to speed and simplicity over perfection and complexity. #GoFastBeAgile

Play to Win: Commit to building an incredible, profitable company for our customers, our employees, and our stakeholders. #PlayToWin #NoExcuses

Neighbours & Allies: Give back to our communities and be an ally. #SocialForGood #Allies

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

#LI-NS1 #LI-Remote
Canada Pay Range For This Role
$115,400—$161,600 CAD

Use of AI in Hiring

Hootsuite uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support our recruitment process. These tools may assist with screening and assessing applicants and / or summarizing interview feedback. All final hiring decisions are made by human decision-makers who use their professional judgement to review and evaluate relevant candidate information in addition to AI outputs. For more information about how we use AI and your rights, please see our Careers Privacy Policy.