Sr. DevOps Engineer

About R-Zero

R-Zero is the first biosafety technology company dedicated to making the indoor spaces we share safer, healthier and more productive. Founded to meet a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink how society approaches health in the built environment, we develop the most effective and innovative technologies to create safer, healthier buildings for all. Combining space utilization sensor technology, AI, ML and IoT connected hardware, R-Zero’s intelligent biosafety platform provides first-of-its-kind visibility, automation and smart risk reduction in the indoor environments where humans spend 90% of their time. Today, R-Zero is emerging as a world-leader in delivering category-defining technology to deliver healthier indoor spaces for all.

We are a fast-growing startup, backed by the world-leading experts at Mayo Clinic and thought-leaders across health, hospitality, sports, commercial real estate and impact sectors - including those who have propelled some of the most transformative tech and innovation in history. DBL Partners, World Innovation Lab (WiL), SOSV, and John Doerr have all invested in our vision for a future that prioritizes health in the built environment.

As we grow our team, we’re looking for candidates who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo, and are motivated to usher in a better future via better buildings. #LI-Remote

Summary/Objective:

R-Zero develops and deploys fleets of remote sensors and automated disinfection devices. The R-Zero DevOps team helps build and operate a cloud-based software platform that connects and automates these fleets of IoT devices, as well as an ecosystem of interconnected software services, user applications, and integrations. Our “engineering north star” is to maintain world-class security and reliability to manage automation impacting human health, while achieving the scalability to handle IoT events streamed across worldwide regions at global scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and maintain highly scalable data architectures for high volume IoT event streaming and other use cases
• Lead and deliver large DevOps projects affecting multiple teams
• Define and enforce new security policies
• Drive P1 incidents to resolution by collaborating with multiple engineering teams. Identify root causes and proactively drive resolution.
• Perform hands-on administration of our AWS, containerization, database, deploy pipeline, and linux systems

• Improve and extend CI/CD frameworks, release management tooling, and development workflows
• Improve and extend service deployment pipeline, container orchestration, and system observability
• Improved incident management lifecycle to identify, mitigate, and learn from reliability risks
• World-class security and uptime/reliability
• Scalability to handle IoT events streamed across worldwide regions at global scale
• Creation of new products and technologies designed to create healthy buildings that provide safer shared spaces for occupants.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:

• Clear and direct communication
• Hands-on technical skills
• The ability to thrive in a remote-first environment - Driving autonomous contribution, working in a systematic way, leveraging industry standard workflows and tools for asynchronous work
• English language fluency - written and verbal
• Candidates must have:

• Deep knowledge of:
  • AWS public cloud infrastructure
  • Production DB architecture and administration (Postgres, NoSQL)
  • Industry standard containerization tools (docker, PodMan, k8s)
  • Industry standard pipeline & infrastructure tooling (eg: Terraform, OpenShift, Jenkins)
  • Linux and network security fundamentals

• Prior experience working on scaled commercial platforms automating safety critical or mission critical use cases and integrations
• Experience architecting highly scalable data architectures, especially related to high volume IoT event streaming
• Expertise with Node and/or Java stack

Travel

This position may require up to 10% travel.

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive teams. At R-Zero, we specifically look for individuals with diverse strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our customers and mission, while helping us grow as a team and individuals.

Benefits

You’ll love working at R-Zero because of our:

• High-impact mission and purpose-driven team / culture.
• Flexibility to choose how you work - whether it be remote (anywhere in the USA), in our brand new Salt Lake City HQ, or a combination of the two.
• Competitive salary, startup equity + incentives.
• Excellent healthcare benefits (medical, dental, vision) covered at 100% for employees, with active enrollment eligibility - so coverage starts on day one.
  • We’re in the business of improving human health for all, so the health of every employee and their families is key.
• 401(k) program with zero waiting period, so you can start investing in your future on day one.
• Dedication to deep work on Wednesday - no internal meetings, so you can focus on what’s most important.
• Unlimited time off.
• Company-sponsored quarterly meetups to connect as a team.

Perks are nice, but perks aren’t what makes R-Zero an incredible place to work. It’s our mission, team, and the opportunity to move society forward with impact-driven work that does. At R-Zero, we’re building category-defining technology to solve one of society’s greatest challenges, and our work compels us to show up each day for our customers and our teams, while feeling well supported in our benefits.

Tied to our science-based mission focused on health and safety, R-Zero maintains a policy requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Our priority is first and foremost the health and safety of our employees, partners and our community. Please note that R-Zero is an equal opportunity employer and we will comply with applicable law regarding accommodations.