Senior DevOps Engineer

Hostaway is the market-leading SaaS scale-up transforming the vacation rental industry. With innovative solutions and partnerships with giants like Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking, we're taking on the competition and winning. Leveraging our customer-centric core values, we consistently deliver results that encourage growth, learning, and innovation for our team, our customers, and the industry.

As a profitable and growing company, this role is necessitated by our continued growth. Check out more about our recent funding round of $365 million here.

**About the role**:
As a member of the DevOps team you will be part of a team that is largely responsible for keeping Hostaway secure, reliable and iterating fast. The DevOps team works with an agile and collaborative approach where we incrementally improve things. As a senior member of the team you will be expected to proactively identify gaps, come up with better solutions and be involved in all stages of planning, provisioning, deployment and monitoring of our infrastructure stack and more. At Hostaway we want the DevOps team to be an enabling team to the rest of engineering, providing reliable tools that allow other engineers to move fast, doing the right thing. If this sounds exciting check out our requirements

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Actively participate in design decisions concerning our infrastructure, infrastructure security, and leveraging modern infrastructure practices and DevOps methodologies where applicable. (Containerization, Configuration Management, CI/CD, IaC, Monitoring)
- Assist the development teams with containerization efforts, maintain reliable Kubernetes clusters that are easy for the teams to use.
- Be an ambassador for reliability across the company, help with design decisions that improve observability and work with teams to create and maintain actionable alerts and runbooks.
- Lead collaborative efforts with the development team to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of CI/CD pipelines, ensuring streamlined and high-performance software delivery.
- Drive toil down and have an automation-first mindset when approaching problems.
- Resolve critical issues across various platforms and environments, addressing challenges such as unavailability, outages, inconsistencies, misconfigurations, data delays. Be an active participant in incident management and in improving it.
- 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and DevOps tools and methodologies.
- AWS professional expertise is a hard requirement, knowing best practices and having used it at scale. The more AWS you know the better. GCP knowledge is a plus but not required.
- Extensive experience in Terraform / OpenTofu for infrastructure as code. You should have experience with modules, and managing different environments in a production setup. Terragrunt knowledge a plus but not required.
- Understanding of classic sysadmin topics: Linux administration, knowledge of networking stack, Bash scripting, security best practices.
- Professional experience with Kubernetes is required. Knowledge of Helm, ArgoCD a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of monitoring/logging tools and working knowledge of the SRE approach to reliability (golden signals, tackling toil, customer focus).
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and responding to production incidents within a blameless culture that focuses on process and technology improvements.
- Willingness to embrace and learn new technologies as the DevOps landscape evolves.
- Fluent English and outstanding communication skills

**What we offer**:

- ** Competitive Compensation**: We offer competitive pay based on market rates in the country of the applicant.
- ** 100% Remote**: Enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere within your country of residence—be it a co-working space, your home office, or even your dining room table. The choice is yours. Just don’t ask to work in our office (we don’t have one).
- ** Equity**: Every role in our company comes with valuable stock options in a fast-growing and profitable company. This ensures we all share in the company’s success.
- ** Values-Driven Leadership**: Our Core Values are not just words we’ve written to make us feel good. We leverage them daily when making strategic and tactical decisions.
- ** Professional Growth**: Our rapid growth offers unparalleled learning and development opportunities, along with a multitude of career advancement opportunities.
- ** Annual Paid Leave**: The specific amounts vary by country and are aligned with country and/or contract-specific norms.
- ** Geographic Specific Benefits**: As an international employer, we offer different country-specific benefits such as Health Insurance and Pensions in countries where these perks are customary. The specifics depend on the country of the applicant.
- ** Dynamic Team Culture**: As a global company with team members in over 40 countries, our diverse and international culture fuels our innovation and creativity, providing a