Senior Developer - Operations and Tooling

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Vancouver

Reporting To: Pablo Bleck

Compensation: $100,000 - $165,000 / year

Description

Senior DevOps Developer, Tooling and Operations

ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, enabling DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

At ActiveState we are building a highly scalable, 100% automated build system for multiple languages across multiple platforms. We’re also creating microservice APIs for other teams to code against as we build our big new thing.

Our platform resolves dependencies for open source languages and libraries all the way up and down the stack. If this sounds like a problem of security, orchestration, and automation, it is! If you like reducing complexity, improving reliability, and helping your fellow developers increase their productivity, we want to meet you!

This specific team implements, maintains, and improves the systems and services beneath our entire platform, keeping everyone in our product and engineering productive. On this team, you’ll automate cloud deployments, improve the security and monitoring of apps and services running in Kubernetes, Nomad, and other cluster systems, and help us figure out how to build open source software securely and repeatedly. If the idea of reducing complexity and making your peers more effective motivates you, this is a great fit.

Developers at ActiveState will love you because you’ve helped them solve the hard work of networking, deployment, monitoring, and reliability. Our users will love you because you’ve helped us create a stable, reliable, secure, and available platform.

This job is a mixture of tools development and operations. Sometimes it makes sense to write our own tools, and other times to adopt, configure, and deploy open source projects or cloud-native services. Your experience and expertise will be essential to decide which approach best suits our needs.

We’re a polyglot company and embrace using the best language for the given task at hand. You’ll regularly find Golang, Elm, Javascript, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, GraphQL, Haskell, Airflow, and other modern tools. Quality is as important as speed. We’re building for the long run, so you’ll need to be proficient in writing tests and documentation too. Our day to day work practices are centered around GitHub, pull requests, code review, CI, measurement and testing, and agile development. We’re always looking to improve and we expect you to help us to do so.

The team is remote first, primarily in the US and Canada, so we coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using Slack for chat, Zoom for video calls and screen sharing, Jira, and the Google Suite.

We use open source software whenever possible, and we contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code.

Key Responsibilities

An operations mindset: keeping systems running and running well, even if you didn’t create them.
Experience maintaining complex software systems along with the ability to design non-trivial applications and components from scratch.
Either:
- Practical experience creating tools for other developers
- Practical experience administering, securing, and and automating cloud deployment environments
A problem-solving mindset, where you enjoy debugging as well as anticipating and avoiding potential problems.
Strong experience with at least one programming language, and shallow experience with several. Polyglots are welcome!
Excellent written and spoken skills, both technical and non-technical. You’ll need to collaborate closely with your developer teammates, as well as be able to have coherent conversations with people from QA, sales, marketing, and other parts of the company.
A willingness to engage in the process of defining our work through conversations with product management, other engineering teams, and the rest of the company.
The ability to help others on the team become better at their jobs through mentoring, supporting, trusting, and generally being a team player.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

If you have experience with any of the following please make sure to highlight it in your cover letter:

DevOps tooling, automation, or application development with Golang.
Security Operations Center experience.
SRE and Chaos Engineering.
Agile processes, including breaking large projects up into smaller stories, estimation, working in branches (GitHub Flow), code review, and CI.
IT automation frameworks and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Salt.
Microservices, message queues, and workflow orchestration systems such as Airflow or Argo.
Docker, Nomad, and Kubernetes, especially in cloud environments.
Golang, Perl, Python, Javascript, Ruby, or Tcl development experience, especially an understanding of their respective language communities and their toolchains.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

Working for a stable and growing company that offers the positive aspects and personal growth potential of a start-up
Ownership of a mission-critical area of the business and exposure to multiple systems, team leads and key revenue outcomes
The chance to work with a smart, passionate team of people
Competitive salary and bonus
Comprehensive benefits package and health/wellness credit program

ActiveState has a collaborative, respectful, and professional culture. We’re all about working together to find the best solutions and making sure the experience of doing so is positive for everyone involved. There is a commitment from the CEO on down to making work at ActiveState a great experience for all.

Our culture is grounded in five core values that shape how we work and grow together:

Embrace New Thinking: We encourage innovation and are always open to better ways of doing things.
Take Ownership: Everyone is empowered to lead in their area, be accountable, and make decisions that move us forward.
Obsess About Our Customers’ Success: We listen, we care, and we act to ensure our customers thrive.
Empower Others to Be Their Best: We support each other with trust, tools, and encouragement.
Speak Up: Open and respectful communication is key—we want everyone to feel heard and valued.

These values guide our day-to-day interactions and decision-making, helping us build a workplace where everyone can succeed and feel a true sense of belonging.

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