The Helper Bees · 3 months ago
Senior DevOps Engineer
The Helper Bees is a company dedicated to empowering older adults and their families in finding quality in-home care providers. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will help establish practices that enable rapid and reliable value delivery, maintaining cloud and CI infrastructure for multiple SaaS products while guiding technical decisions and mentoring team members.
Elder CareHealth CareHome Health CareInsuranceInsurTech
Responsibilities
Support product development teams to optimize application architecture for scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency
Implementation of our cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, primarily with Terraform
Lead best practices for our infrastructure resources across multiple cloud providers (GCP, Azure)
Implement and improve system observability, including logging, monitoring, and alerting, to ensure system health and enable rapid debugging
Lead debugging and problem-solving that help the whole team become more effective
Enforce best practices for security, reliability, and performance within our infrastructure
Be on-call for our infrastructure during incident response
Responsible for servicing our product engineering team requests for support via our triaging guidance
Leverage and evangelize LLM usage in our team, dev tools, & dev workflows
Drive improvements in development flow through:
Optimizing deployment processes
Establish our development feedback loops
Improving system observability
Guide technical decision-making by:
Breaking down complex problems
Facilitating tradeoff discussions
Helping teams understand cost of delay
Ensuring decisions enable rapid iteration
Other duties as assigned/necessary
Qualification
Required
Ability to establish and evolve technical defaults
Experience optimizing development workflows through collaboration with internal customers such as product development teams
Senior-level experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
Strong hands-on experience with cloud providers (GCP and/or Azure)
Able to self-service work breakdown from large goals in collaboration with the team
Deep understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Swarm
You thrive in working in a fast pace start-up environment
Change doesn't scare you, in fact, it does the opposite -- it fuels you!
Experience with or willingness to learn to develop infrastructure tools & services in Go
Knowledge of configuration management using Ansible
Preferred
Health & Insurance software experience
SFTP & other file transport layer services best practices across organizations
Company
The Helper Bees
The Helper Bees is an InsurTech startup that helps seniors and their families find solutions to aging in place.
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$54.22MKey Investors
Trust VenturesSilverton PartnersTechstars
2025-01-28Series C· $35M
2022-01-12Series B· $12.8M
2020-07-22Series A· $6M
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