Salsify is a SaaS platform for capturing, integrating, managing, transforming, and publishing rich retail data including product information, content, and digital media. We are on a mission to create the most powerful overall technology platform for creating and managing compelling product information.

We’re building our next generation SaaS infrastructure and we’re starting from scratch. This is an amazing opportunity for a person who has the desire to help create something from inception that seamlessly scales to handle our customer needs. We’re not looking to cut corners or compromise the technology or approach and the person in this role will mirror the same philosophy. Ultimately, we’re looking for a resourceful builder who can think outside the box.

What You'll Do

• Share responsibility for health, scalability and availability of our cloud infrastructure
• Automate deployment of AWS infrastructure and services using orchestration tools like Cloudformation or Terraform
• Creates and maintains Chef recipes for instance configuration management
• Ensure cloud architecture meets scalability, availability and cost requirements
• Responds to service requests for infrastructure adds, and changes
• Creates custom plugins for Sensu using modern scripting languages
• Creates and deploys new base container images
• Addresses service and infrastructure monitoring alerts during office hours
• Also participates on-call rotation during the evenings. Creates and maintains documentation for processes, supported infrastructure resources and services
• Inject and maintain a healthy level of humor within the team

What You'll Bring

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience / technical degree
• 2-4 years of experience managing public cloud infrastructures, preferably AWS Minimum of 2 years of experience in a public cloud operations and/or software development role
• Experience with supporting SaaS environment at scale Experience with configuration management tools and cloud orchestration tools, such as CloudFormation, Terraform, OpsWorks, Chef, Puppet, Ansible
• Solid understanding of containerization services such as Docker or AMI Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as AWS, Logstash, Sensu, Pingdom, StatusCake, New Relic
• Solid understanding/experience of web services and applications, databases and relating infrastructure/architectures
• Solid understanding of backup/restore best practices in the cloud
• 2 - 4 years of infrastructure automation using a modern scripting language, such as Python and Ruby
• Excellent troubleshooting skills Automation experience using AWS API SDK, such as ruby-sdk, boto or awscli, for automation

Bonus

• A firm understanding of search engine technology such as Elasticsearch
• Experience with managing Postgres databases, both in stand alone and RDS deployments
• Experience managing security controls in a public cloud infrastructure
• Working knowledge of using Single Sign-On to manage Identity and Access Management

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• 401K
• Stock Options
• Flexible spending plans
• Disability and Life insurance
• Generous vacation time
• And more Commuter and Employee Benefits

73% of consumers say that rich product content is the single most important factor in their product search and purchase decisions. The digital supply chain is changing and Salsify is at the forefront of this shift addressing the complex needs for brands and retailers. Salsify helps brands, retailers & distributors shorten time to market, enable more distribution channels and accelerate sales through the optimization, exchange and syndication of rich product content. Salsify is backed by top tier venture capitalists and is experiencing high growth. Come be part of the team.