DevOps Engineering Leader

Why should you join dLocal?

dLocal enables the biggest companies in the world to collect payments in 40 countries in emerging markets. Global brands rely on us to increase conversion rates and simplify payment expansion effortlessly. As both a payments processor and a merchant of record where we operate, we make it possible for our merchants to make inroads into the world’s fastest-growing, emerging markets. 

By joining us you will be a part of an amazing global team that makes it all happen, in a flexible, remote-first dynamic culture with travel, health and learning benefits, among others. Being a part of dLocal means working with 1000+ teammates from 30+ different nationalities and developing an international career that impacts millions of people’s daily lives. We are builders, we never run from a challenge, we are customer-centric, and if this sounds like you, we know you will thrive in our team.

What’s the opportunity?

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer Tech Lead to join our team! You will be part of a talented team that works on mission-critical applications with big customers like Netflix, Amazon, Nike, Meta, Google & more!

This is a remote position!

What will I be doing?

• You'll be responsible for week-to-week planning of your team and keeping each member accountable
• As a tech lead, part of your role is to be a people manager - It's vital you dedicate time to managing your team members
• Scalability of our infrastructure to answer our international growth
• Daily interaction with engineers and participate in the development process
• Work on infrastructure automation, performance improvements and auto-scaling
• Designing solutions focused on uptime, redundancy, DR and understand the security implications when interacting with Security and Compliance teams
• Automating IaC deployment and configuration using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Github Actions, providing consistent performance.
• Administration and monitoring of our Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS)

What skills do I need?

• Experience leading remote teams in the past
• Deployment automation, Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation, monitoring, alerting and dashboarding with ELK and NewRelic.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Rundeck.
• Experience with deploying infrastructure in an AWS cloud environment.
• Troubleshoot and configure AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, Route 53, RDS, EKS, ECS, ECR, ALB, AWS Config, Step Functions, Lambda Functions, CloudFront.
• Experience with Docker and containers.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration toolset.
• CI/CD Pipeline toolset experience such as GitHub, GItHub Actions, Gitlab, automated tests, automated deployments, etc.
• Linux administration experience, understanding Linux core fundamentals and command line operations.
• Knowledge of security best practices for Cloud Computing environments.

What do we offer?

Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you:

- Remote work: work from anywhere or one of our offices around the globe!*

- Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance.

- Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity.

- Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.

- Learning & development: get access to a Premium Coursera subscription.

- Language classes: we provide free English, Spanish, or Portuguese classes.

- Social budget: you'll get a monthly budget to chill out with your team (in person or remotely) and deepen your connections!

- dLocal Houses: want to rent a house to spend one week anywhere in the world coworking with your team? We’ve got your back!

*For people based in Montevideo (Uruguay) applying to non-IT roles, 55% monthly attendance to the office is required.

What happens after you apply?

Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!

Also, you can check out our webpage, Linkedin, Instagram, and Youtube for more about dLocal!