Senior DevOps Engineer

Full-time; Denver, Colorado

On-Site, Hybrid, or Remote (US)

Do you want to help build real technology for a meaningful purpose? Do you want to fight to make the world’s fresh produce healthier, tastier, and more sustainable? 

Tortuga is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help build systems that support software development processes along with configuration, deployment, and monitoring for our worldwide fleet of harvesting robots. As a member of the software team, you’ll work on tools to support best practices in software development, testing, release management, and operations with space to grow into a variety of other critical roles. You will be responsible for developing, optimizing, and sustaining all aspects of the software development tooling and infrastructure to support the software and machine learning teams.

In this important role at Tortuga, you’ll be fundamental to our success, growth, and culture. You’ll bring an excitement for DevOps and share a passion for our mission while also thriving in a fast-paced, flexible, and energized startup environment. You’re driven to advance your role and skills as Tortuga continues to grow.

What you’ll do

• Create, support, and promote best practices for software development through integration of modern git based platforms and tooling 

• Configure, optimize and sustain software build and continuous integration pipelines

• Implement automated testing and deployment paradigms throughout the development, testing, and release lifecycle

• Work directly with the software team and machine learning team to ensure upstream code quality by automating processes and providing reliable infrastructure for testing. 

• Up to 10% travel, with potential for international travel

What we’re looking for

• Required: 4+ years experience in a DevOps role 

• Required: B.S. Computer Science or similar degree

• Required: Demonstrably strong Python, shell scripting or other programming language skills 

• Required: Demonstrably strong with Docker and container management 

• Required: Experience with git based development workflows, DevOps platforms (Gitlab is a plus), and CI infrastructure for C++ and Python projects

• Strongly Preferred: Experience with Ansible, container orchestration, task automation, and software observability technologies

• Strongly Preferred: Experience with DevOps for software deployed in application areas of industrial automation, autonomous vehicles, or robotics

• Preferred: Experience with software development practices and tools (like Jira) 

• Preferred: Experience with scalability, monitoring, security and performance engineering for production-grade software with deployments at scale

• Preferred: Startup experience a major plus

The base salary range represents the low and high end of our salary range for this position. Actual salaries may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel. The range listed is just one component of Tortuga’s total compensation package for employees.

Denver area base salary range: $130,000 - $160,000 per year. Relocation assistance is available for out-of-state candidates.

Please note you must be authorized to work in the United States for this position.

Tortuga AgTech’s mission is to build a healthier society, and a thriving ecosystem, through smarter farming. We’re pursuing our mission by building robotic harvesting and precision analytics systems for the world’s leading fresh produce growers (delicious things like strawberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, and herbs). We’re building not just because it’s fun, but because we believe thoughtful, well-built advanced technology can help farmers grow healthier, fresher, more environmentally sustainable produce for everyone. We’re backed by some of the most respected early-stage investors in Silicon Valley, as well as ag industry veterans.

Tortuga means “turtle” in Spanish. Around the world, turtles are symbols of wisdom, patience, and connection to the Earth. We’re proud to be based in Denver, CO - America’s 2nd best place to live according to U.S. News (but does Austin have any mountains? We still think we’re #1).

Tortuga is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Compensation Range: $130K - $160K