Muck Rack is the leading SaaS platform for public relations & communications executives. Our mission is to make journalists, PR pros & marketers more successful by providing them with the technology they need to find journalists to pitch, monitor media, quantify their impact & work together with their team.

A bootstrapped, remote-first startup, Crains named Muck Rack one of the best places to work in 2019. We value resilience, transparency, ownership, & customer devotion & infuse these values into everything we do. Were growing quickly, & were looking for an experienced & ambitious DevOps Engineer to join our team & make a big impact.

As a DevOps Engineer, youll be working alongside the CTO & engineering team to help us scale to meet demand, improve our shipping pipeline & practices, & improve the overall stability of our applications.

Why we need you:

• Help us scale our Python, MySQL, & Elasticsearch-based application to meet ever-increasing demand
• Improve our existing Elasticsearch indexing infrastructure
• Own network & server provisioning, monitoring, & management. (We use Ansible, Terraform, Consul, & Vault.)
• Help us make the best use of the latest advancements in software delivery
• Be responsible for playbook documentation & recovery strategies, & teaching our engineering team about best practices
• Continually evaluate on our platform architecture for improvement
• Take pride in the efficiency, stability, scalability, & security of our setup

More about you:

• You have experience scaling large MySQL clusters or other RDBMS deployments
• Operating cloud-native environments, Docker, Kubernetes (or similar orchestration tech), & automated delivery is something that youve mastered
• Youre great at troubleshooting performance issues through all layers
• You have the know how of running Elasticsearch for high volume indexing & search
• Creating observability through monitoring & logging is your jam

Benefits & perks:

• Excellent team culture that balances fast-paced feature development & shipping with diligence & stability
• Competitive salary
• Health, dental & vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions
• Flexible remote-first policy
• Generous vacation
• Citi Bike memberships
• Paid parental leave
• Team outings & events