Engineering Manager, DevOps

About AllTrails

AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world. We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from our community of millions of registered hikers, mountain bikers, and trail runners in 150 countries. AllTrails is frequently ranked as a top-5 Health and Fitness app and has been downloaded by over 75 million people worldwide. AllTrails was selected as Apple's App of the Year in 2023!

Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems so that we can get more people outside having healthy, authentic experiences and a deeper appreciation of the outdoors. Join us!  

Bay Area employees are highly encouraged to come into the office one day a week.

Engineering Manager, DevOps

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Planning, coordinating, and playing a hands-on role in activities in the DevOps, Build & Release, Security, and IT teams
• Coaching and leading a passionate team of hardworking engineers responsible for scaling AllTrails service-oriented architecture
• Working with the team to break down large technical initiatives into smaller tasks to forecast deliveries over multiple sprints
• Playing a key role in managing our cloud cost management strategies
• Owning the team's quality of service monitoring, coding best practices, and code reviews
• Working with applications that use Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
• Assisting other Engineering teams in effective incident response or root-cause analysis
• Identifying and squashing bugs

Requirements:

• 2-3+ years leading a DevOps team
• 5+ years of experience programming with general-purpose languages such as Ruby, Python, or Go and scripting languages such as Unix Shell, Bash, and PowerShell
• 4+ years of experience with AWS
• Proven ability to lead and grow a team, all while fostering career development
• Deep experience with AWS services including EKS, EC2, RDS, and CloudFront
• Deep knowledge of IaC patterns and practices and related automation tools such as Terraform
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and CI/CD
• Monitoring and metrics-gathering (DataDog, NewRelic, CloudWatch, etc)
• Understanding of Aurora/MySQL, PostgreSQL, and other relational and non-relational databases
• Proficiency with Git/GitHub or other distributed version control systems
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation—currently the rotation is once a quarter
• Self-motivation and a deep sense of pride in your work
• Passion about the outdoors, web technologies and AllTrails’ mission to connect people to the outdoors
• Humility, empathy and open-mindedness—no egos

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Elastic, Algolia, or similar tools
• Excitement for transitioning Rails Monoliths into right-sized services
• Experience with load testing and unit testing
• Knowledge of industry best practices for foundational security elements
• Understanding of the latest security principles, techniques, and protocols

Our Commitment to You:

• A competitive and equitable compensation plan. This is a full-time, salaried position that includes equity.
• Physical & mental well-being including health, dental and vision benefits, and a monthly stipend for wellness expenses.
• Trail Days: First Friday of each month off to hit the trails!
• Unlimited PTO.
• Flexible parental leave.
• A remote employee equipment stipend to create a great remote work environment.
• An annual continuing education stipend.
• Discounts on subscription and merchandise for you and your friends & family.
• An authentic investment in you as a human being and your career as a professional.

Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.

Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.

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