Infrastructure Engineer

About Us

Zenput was founded in 2012 with offices in San Francisco, CA (our HQ), Atlanta, GA and Guadalajara, Mexico. Top restaurant, retail, and other multi-unit operators like Dominos, Chipotle, KFC, Five Guys, and 7-Eleven use Zenput to elevate team execution across all of their locations. Today we have customers who are collectively overseeing 50,000 locations across 40+ countries using our cloud-based platform to make their operations more agile and their employees more productive.

Our customers operate many locations across many timezones and managing all of their store operations is complex and currently based in paper and spreadsheets. We have created an operations execution platform to allow the people in the field to connect with each other, the people at headquarters, and soon the machines in the stores (IoT). Our end goal is to connect all the people and all the devices to change the way work gets done in the field.

We are a fast-paced organization and we are looking for people who want to collaborate broadly and deal with ambiguity to solve real problems that have a huge impact on our customer’s businesses, and to grow our company and grow the people around them.

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will help us continue to transform our scrappy customer-need focused stack into an elegant and automated infrastructure that scales as we continue to grow our business. You’ll work collaboratively with other talented engineers, and as an empathetic system thinker you will continue to evolve our platform.

Our infrastructure stack currently leans heavily on Heroku and cloud application service providers, to run our Javascript+Python application. We’re continually growing traffic week-to-week, and are pushing > 100req/s across all of our web environments and > 100actions/s for queue workers. We have tables that are too large to modify, and we’re on track for 99.999% uptime for the year. We do some CD in development, but would like to increase our deployment frequency in 2021 from bi-weekly, to weekly, and ultimately to daily.

We’re all remote for the time being, but we currently are planning and looking forward to returning to our offices in 2021.

What You’ll Do As An Infrastructure Engineer

• Great communicator and outstanding team player. Bias towards over-communicating and asking questions.
• Desire to be part of a team, be a part of culture and contribute, and seeks best outcome for the team rather than being right.
• Curious and intentional about self-development.
• CS/CIS/Systems Mentality
• Adoption of CI, DevOps principles (including infrastructure-as-code and automation) and a focus on quality
• A deep understanding about request life cycles, system architecture, and user behavior
• Strong understanding of web application infrastructure, automation patterns, and operational tooling
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and associated tools & principles
• Ability to design and implement the right technical solution for the right problem at the right time (i.e. you don't over-engineer, but you do thoroughly consider the constraints)
• Someone fun, interesting, and likes to build and hack. Not just software!

Nice to haves

• Specific experience with our infrastructure tech and tech we’d like to use (CircleCI, Jenkins, Github Actions, Heroku, AWS, Azure, GCP, CloudFlare, Python, Django, Celery/RabbitMQ, Storm, Kafka, React, CDNs, Postgres, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Snowflake, ETL tools, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Expertise in and experience developing enterprise products, and web products at scale
• Experience automating a complex infrastructure from scratch, migrating from one cloud provider to another, or other significant open-ended infrastructure engineering problems.
• Open source contributions
• You’ve helped make your work environment fun, and it’s important to you.
• You’ve built great relationships with coworkers in the past, and want to keep doing it.
• You care similarly about building great software, and building great relationships with other people.
• You’re interested in the technical problems we are solving.
• You’re interested in the types of business problems we are solving.

What you'll get

• Great mission-driven team members from diverse backgrounds with a strong company culture
• Competitive pay
• Yearly team off-sites
• International travel opportunities
• Work in an open environment on solutions that are reshaping the way businesses operate
• Fun-team events and a casual work environment
• Medical / Dental / 401K benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Ownership through stock options

Zenput provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.