Online shopping has changed. Today’s eCommerce runs on selling products, not brands. SamCart is the only eCommerce software platform built for creators, by creators, who want to build a profitable digital business and experience personal freedom and growth.
Staff DevOps Engineer
Full time. Remote.
At SamCart, we are not just coders – we are craftsmen. We are professionals who take pride in, and hold ourselves accountable for, the applications that we build. We practice discipline in our approach, demanding of ourselves highly performant, thoroughly tested, and exquisitely designed code. We value honest communication, close collaboration, and lifelong continuous learning. We are deeply empathetic to the impact our software has on the lives of our customers; and we readily accept that great responsibility with humility, determination, and skill.
SamCart is looking for a collaborative, conscientious, and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. In this role you will refine, implement, and educate on our practices across SamCart’s cloud infrastructure in AWS and GCP, considering application performance and scalability, disaster recovery, data management, and security. You will be responsible for maintaining application uptime, 24x7 on-call rotation, infrastructure-as-code, and collaboration with our engineering teams as we consolidate our infrastructure in AWS. Finally, you will join our elite team of high-caliber engineers, product managers and designers to build a world-class ecommerce engine to power the future of SamCart and revolutionize commerce on the Internet.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate cloud-based infrastructure built around Docker and Kubernetes in AWS, focusing on infrastructure-as-code, GitOps, and CI/CD methodologies.
- Support the ongoing development of a multi-tenant web application as we simplify our microservices architecture.
- Perform a full spectrum of DevOps functions, including system administration, configuration management, data engineering, performance and security monitoring, disaster recovery, and 24x7 support.
- Ensure efficiency and predictability of deployments and upgrades.
- Lead the final steps of our migrations from GCP to AWS and from EC2 into Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with AWS and GCP technical account managers, solutions architects, and consulting partners.
Qualifications
- Expert in Amazon Web Services, leveraging cloud services to build performant, secure, highly available multi-region web applications.
- Mastery of advanced tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, SOPS, etc.)
- High proficiency with cloud-hosted continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines and tools (i.e. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, GitLab CI, CircleCI, etc.)
- Fluency in Python and modern scripting languages (PHP, TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience managing data pipelines
- At least 5 years of professional experience building and supporting cloud infrastructure in AWS.
- Familiarity with GCP sufficient to support seamless service migration.
This is what you’ll love about SamCart
Our co-founders always say “Their success is our success” and we believe that about our people too! We want everyone to love their job at least 80% of the time and when you are successful, the whole team is successful.
- Diversity adds value to everything we do - We hire from and for a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to allow the team to bring their own unique ways of thinking and working to each project
- We have unlimited PTO with an encouraged 14-day minimum to empower our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their day-to-day lives.
- Yay, we have 401K!
- Health Insurance premiums are covered 100% by SamCart for you +1, be it a significant other or child.
- Supportive Parental leave policies for all parents
- Career growth and development are essential here at SamCart and we want all team members to build sustainable, future-proof and adaptable careers.
Our Core Values
- Play to Win
- We play offense every single day. Unshaken by bigger companies, we see them as proof of what’s possible. We adapt, innovate, and outthink them.
- Take Risks, Embrace Failure
- Fear doesn’t paralyze us—standing still does. We take risks and embrace failure, because it’s the quickest path to success.
- Complexity is the enemy
- We keep it simple and stay lean in everything we do—our teams, projects, product, and strategies. We double down on what works, perfecting the few things we do best.
- Ahead of the Curve. Always.
- We combine intuition, experience, and data to drive breakthrough ideas. We stay curious, spot trends early, and know our customers, market, and business better than anyone.
- The Customer is everything
- We treat their business like it’s our own. Their wins are our wins. Their goals are our goals.
- Work with Purpose, Live with Balance
- Work is important, but it’s not everything. Our greatest wins happen when we bring our best to work, without sacrificing what matters most: our families, friends, and our personal growth.
Want to learn more about what SamCart Culture looks like? Check out our Culture Page here: Culture @ SamCart
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What We Do
Online shopping has changed. Today’s eCommerce runs on selling products, not brands. SamCart is the only eCommerce software platform built for creators, by creators, who want to build a profitable digital business and experience personal freedom and growth.
Why Work With Us
Our co-founders always say “their success is our success” and we believe that about our people too! We want everyone to love their job at least 80% of the time and when you are successful, the whole team is successful.
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