Software Engineer II - Cloud Engineering

About SimpliSafe

We're a high-tech home security company that's passionate about protecting the life you've built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we've created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you're building. Ours is a no-ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don't just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.

We are partnering with a local India firm called Kaamwork to build out an Engineering presence in India. We are setting up a new cloud engineering team in India.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II - Cloud Engineer to help develop and support our cloud infrastructure and application lifecycle framework. Some may call this a DevOps role, but we like to say this role is in service to the DevOps mission - "to build and support the tools that empower a best-in-class engineering organization." We are a collaborative, self-aware, smart,driven, fun, innovative company paving the IoT space. Join us!

What You'll Do:

Our cloud engineering team owns centralized services such as central data stores (e.g., MongoDB, MariaDB), logging tools (e.g., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), metrics and visualization tools (e.g., InfluxDB, Grafana), messaging (RabbitMQ), Artifactory, and the infrastructure for GitHub actions. You'll develop tools that simplify Kubernetes deployment complexities for other engineering teams within the platform, enhancing their ease of utilizing cloud services. Ensuring scalability and security remains our highest priority.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven track record with IAC and automating cloud solutions
• CI/CD first mindset
• Expertise in the design and automation of software builds and deployments
• Always thinking of logs, monitors and alerts
• Solid understanding of the HTTP protocol and REST APIs
• A team player with excellent communication skills that is also comfortable working independently
• Security conscious
• Love building new things but realize that maintenance is half the battle
• Eager to work in an agile environment on an agile team
• Experience in an IoT and microservices environment is a plus

What Values You'll Share:

• Customer Obsessed - Building deep empathy for customers and developing strong, long-term relationships with them.
• Aim High - Always challenging oneself and others to raise the bar.
• No Ego - "no job too small" attitude, and open, inclusive and humble style.
• One Team - highly collaborative approach to achieving success.
• Lift As We Climb - A track record of investing in developing others and helping others succeed.
• Lean & Nimble - working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often-ambiguous environment.