Senior DevOps Engineer (Remote)

About the role

THE COMPANY:

Apollo.io's mission is to help every business to fulfill their full market potential by connecting companies with amazing solutions with those who need them most. We've built a database of 250 million business contacts and 10 million companies, and our software helps sales and marketing identify and convert their most likely potential customers. We've raised over $10 million from Silicon Valley investors such as Y Combinator, Nexus Venture Partners, SV Angel, and Social Capital, and are profitable and continuously growing. We're headquartered in San Francisco, CA with a brilliant worldwide remote team.

Apollo is the foundation of your entire go-to-market strategy.

YOUR ROLE & MISSION:

We are looking for an Senior DevOps Engineer to build and scale our production environment. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience, a passion for systems engineering, automating operations, infrastructure security, and high-availability systems as well as experience in software development. We are heavily invested in Ruby on Rails, Mongo, and ElasticSearch. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You are agile enough to jump into most projects and be hungry to build so much more.

Examples of work that Software Engineers do at Apollo:

- Scrape news from more than 1000+ sources every day. Apply NLP to categorize the news, and alert users based on their preference.

- Design, build, and scale machine learning pipelines that analyze and score user’s data based on billions of signals that we scrape from tens of millions of websites.

- Design, build, and scale complex and highly customizable analytics engines to help clients track success metrics while using our platform.

- Build a phone call system that allows users to make phone calls on the platform and track their phone call history. Apply NLP on the recording to help our customer analyze their phone calls and improve performance.

COMPETENCIES/KEY TRAITS:

- You move fast. Stay hungry. Ambitious.

- You have a willingness to take leadership in designing and scaling our core infrastructure that will lay the foundation for the company for the next decade.

- You Go above and beyond to help your team and able to become an exemplary leader

- Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users

DAILY ADVENTURES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Design, build, and scale backend software services for Apollo’s distributed and highly available architecture using modern backend languages.

- Implement and scale enterprise-level security infrastructure.