Staff DevOps Engineer

We want to make work and study more efficient and enjoyable, by providing the best digital paper solution possible. We plan to be the go-to tool for all forms of notes. Our digital paper and learning ecosystem inspires anyone to take notes, share what they know, collaborate with others, and learn as a community

We want to make work and study more efficient and enjoyable, by providing the best digital paper solution possible. We plan to be the go-to tool for all forms of notes. Our digital paper and learning ecosystem inspires anyone to take notes, share what they know, collaborate with others, and learn as a community.

About the role:

Do you believe in automating yourselves out of our jobs? With our company growth, that’s not going to happen anytime soon. Join a fast-growing and talented DevOps team to build a modern, strong and stable platform to accelerate the rolling out of many new features, for millions of users around the world!

• Design, build, and maintain the Goodnotes infrastructure, ensure it adheres to Dickerson’s Hierarchy of Reliability.
• Educate the various teams in DevOps and SRE best practices. Aid them in designing, capacity planning, to rolling out new features.
• Be the go-to person for higher-level escalation for applications
• Improve the system monitoring, health reporting, and logging
• Design and implement security, assist in maintaining information security practices and procedures

The tech stack

• Monitoring and Logging: we are currently using Datadog for monitoring, APM, logging, CI/CD optimization, Budget and cost management. Metrics are collected across our agents, taken from the logs using metric filters, and updated directly from lambda function or the application.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: most of our infrastructure is written and defined in Terraform using Atlantis
• CI/CD: we are currently using GitHub Actions for our backend applications, and CircleCI for our iOS applications.
• Deployments: we have multiple EKS clusters set up either for Blue/Green rollouts or dedicated feature sets. We manage the workload configurations using ArgoCD and Helm.
• We are currently running dedicated stateful clusters for our CockroachDB deployments.

The skills you will need to be successful in the above:

• Deep understanding of Linux and Networking fundamentals.
• Strong knowledge of network and container security.
• Extensive experience working with AWS products.
• Proficiency in container orchestration, with a particular emphasis on Kubernetes.
• Proven track record in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid experience in managing Relational and Non-relational databases, including backup and restore operations.
• Familiarity with distributed databases.
• Proficiency in automation/configuration management tools, preferably CDK and/or Terraform.
• Proficiency in scripting languages, particularly TypeScript.
• Familiarity with system monitoring tools.
• Some background in back-end development, including API usage and creation.

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria listed above, we would still love to hear from you! Goodnotes places a lot of value on learning and development and will support your growth if needed.

The interview process:

• Introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
• Take-home challenge to set up an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline for an API.
• Live coding call with one of our engineers. This is where you get to see what it would be like working at Goodnotes as well as the chance to ask any engineering questions you may have
• Behavioural interview with your manager: This is the person who will be managing you day to day, working on your growth and development with you as well as support you throughout your career at Goodnotes
• Panel interview asking behavioural questions on our company values

What’s in it for you:

• Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
• Budget for things like noise-cancelling headphones, setting up your home office, personal development, professional training, and health & wellness
• Sponsored visits to our Hong Kong or London office every 2 years
• Company-wide annual offsite
• Flexible working hours and location
• Medical insurance for you and your dependents

Note: Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background checks, including verification of employment, education, and criminal records.