Staff DevOps Engineer

Who You Are

You embrace the ethic of “infrastructure as code” to provide consistency and security for both data center and Cloud deployments. You deliver quality infrastructure that is highly available, secure, and accurately monitored, and follows architectural best practices. You hold yourself and your teammates to a high standard when writing clean, performant, and maintainable code for deployments and configuration management. You enjoy finding new ways to improve the design, performance, and testing of the systems and services that you deploy and operate.

You work well with cross-functional teams that include platform engineers, data scientists, security engineers, and product managers. You inspire the best in the DevOps engineers you manage. You care deeply about your work and its impact on your team’s productivity. You are a top performer who is effective in mentoring other engineers. You have a great work ethic and are able to take on major projects from start to finish, collaborating with other engineers. You value the security of a company with a proven business model and enjoy the challenges a venture-backed growth company offers. On a personal note, you are fun to work with; you maintain a positive attitude throughout the Agile Sprint cycle.

Who We Are

Quantifind helps some of the world’s biggest banks catch money laundering and fraud. Quantifind also works with government agencies to use the same platform to uncover criminal networks and combat adversarial foreign ownership and influence in critical industries. Unlike other players in this space, Quantifind delivers results as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with consumer-grade user experiences.

Quantifind is a data science technology company whose AI platform uncovers signals of risk across disparate and unstructured text sources. In financial crimes risk management, Quantifind’s solution uniquely combines internal financial institution data with public domain data to assess risk in the context of Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), Fraud Risk Management, and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) processes. Today these compliance processes are burdened by ever-increasing regulatory responsibilities and an expectation of frictionless transactions. Legacy technologies demand increasingly more human resources as the operations expand; Quantifind’s SaaS solution offers a way to cut through the inefficiency and enhance effectiveness simultaneously.

We process terabytes of data each day on our own dedicated Hadoop clusters. We use real-time data services to enable interactive investigations in our APIs and web applications. We use Kubernetes and Docker for our container ecosystem and we develop standalone services in Scala and Python and use Spark for MapReduce jobs.

To help you succeed, we provide a supportive environment that fosters collaboration between teams and team members, where learning and professional growth are considered a key part of your success, and of ours. We offer a flexible work environment with a family-friendly work-life balance.

What a Great Candidate Looks Like:

• 8+ years of professional industry experience, including 2+ years at a SaaS startup
• BS or MS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering
• Very experienced in Linux administration with a preference for Ubuntu package management
• Very experienced using configuration management tools such as Ansible
• Strong scripting experience using Python and Bourne shell
• A hands-on technologist who writes code and has managed direct reports
• Roughly 75% coding and 25% reviewing the code of other team members and thus directly contributing to the Agile Velocity of your team
• Technically respected by the other members of your team and the broader Engineering organization
• Demonstrated ability to guide technical career development for your team members
• Effective representing the DevOps team when interacting with other teams to elaborate and refine technical requirements
• Excellent communication, presentation and collaborative problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage large projects to completion in addition to contributing code on an individual level
• Experience with virtual machine cluster management
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration, both on-prem and in the Cloud
• Experience with Spark for MapReduce jobs
• Experience with Cloudflare
• Experience with Elasticsearch
• Experience managing secure SaaS deployments in multiple colocation data centers
• Experience with network, host and application security practices both in data centers and in the Cloud
• Very comfortable in AWS Public Cloud platform
• Basic knowledge of Hadoop/HDFS installation and configuration
• Experience with SSL certificate management
• Professional experience with credentials vaults such as HashiCorp Vault
• Basic knowledge of monitoring tools like Nagios, Munin, Prometheus, and Zenoss
• Basic knowledge of release engineering tools like Maven, Jenkins, etc.
• Experience with uptime / availability engineering, performance metrics, and monitoring
• Familiarity with network design, operation, and troubleshooting
• Familiarity with storage systems like Postgres, Hive, etc.
• Some coding experience with a higher-level language such as Python
• A preference for working in a venture-backed growth company with a culture of compliance
• Experience with SOC 2 and/or PCI
• Exceptional technical documentation ability
• Experience in Agile software development best practices: run Sprints, assign Stories and divvy up technical challenges across the entire team is a plus
• Great team player who has a strong desire to change the way people use their data
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

The Opportunity We Offer

As a Staff DevOps Engineer and Technical Lead at Quantifind’s HQ in Palo Alto, California, you will play a critical role in managing the infrastructure for Quantifind’s applications and services. Our stack includes back-end services and infrastructure, machine learning modules surfaced through REST APIs, and React-based front-end web applications. As a member of our DevOps Team, you will have a big impact on how we build, automate, and scale our technology and processes. You will work closely with DevOps engineers, solving problems, automating deployments, and championing best practices.

Our technology includes: Ubuntu, Ganeti, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, git, Hadoop, Nagios, PostgreSQL, Jenkins, and in-house Scala and NodeJS applications. We deploy to our own data centers and to AWS.

Quantifind’s development team is centered in Palo Alto, California, and we have technology hubs in Atlanta, Georgia, and in Washington, D.C. Quantifind is currently using a hybrid mix of working from home and in the office, with regular in-person touchpoints and shared office space.

A highlight of our benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Company Equity
• Exceptional benefits package
• Flexible Vacation & Paid Time Off
• Employer-matched 401(k) plan
• A fun environment where work-life balance is valued

The California base salary range for this full-time position is $190,000 to $215,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and the range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location, role-related knowledge and skills, depth of experience, relevant education or training, and additional role-related considerations.

Depending on the position offered, equity, bonuses, commission, or other forms of compensation may also be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.

We are an equal opportunity employer; we have a fun place to work and a devotion to succeeding together.

Will you join us? Apply now!