DevOps Engineer at Maximustribe

Company is based in Santa Monica, CA

Position is Remote (North America)

Maximus (https://www.maximustribe.com/) is a mission-driven consumer health company that provides men with content, community, and clinical support to optimize them in mind and body. Maximus has raised $15M from top Silicon Valley VCs such as Founders Fund and 8VC as well as leading angel investors/operators from companies like Bulletproof, Tinder, Coinbase, Daily Stoic, & Shopify.

Maximus is looking for a mid to senior-level DevOps Engineer to join our team and drive our reliability-focused culture. You'll play a crucial role in ensuring the scalability, performance, and security of our advanced telemedicine platform. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to improving men's mental and physical health.

Please note: Culture is key at Maximus, so we get to know candidates holistically through our questionnaire. You will receive an invite in a separate email upon submitting an application. Please fill it out as honestly and intuitively as possible since it is designed to detect exaggeration, which will cause your application to be automatically rejected. The questionnaire is optional to submit now with your application, but candidates that do so will get strongly prioritized. Note, we do not have access to individual questions’ answers/choices.

Responsibilities:

• Foster a reliability-focused culture within the engineering team, emphasizing monitoring, alerting, and scaling practices.

• Participate in architecture discussions from a site reliability engineering perspective.

• Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.

• Enhance developer experience through tooling and process improvements.

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure using cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).

• Collaborate with software engineers to ensure efficient system operations and resolve production issues.

• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting systems using tools like Datadog and Sentry.

• Continuously improve system reliability, performance, and security.

• Ensure compliance with HIPAA regulations and other best practices.

The ideal candidate will have the following:

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or similar roles.

• Strong proficiency with cloud platforms, particularly AWS and GCP.

• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes).

• Expertise in CI/CD tools and practices, especially GitHub Actions.

• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Datadog and Sentry.

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure-as-code principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Experience with Ruby on Rails applications in production environments.

• Solid understanding of network security principles and best practices.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex systems.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience working in HIPAA-compliant environments.

• Familiarity with React/Redux/ImmutableJS ecosystems.

• Knowledge of data pipeline tools like Segment.

• Experience with Aptible or similar HIPAA-compliant hosting platforms.

• Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer).

Qualities:

• High Conscientiousness: Highly effective, organized, dutiful, self-disciplined, and careful. You are the type of person who used multiple colors of highlighters, and everyone wanted to borrow notes from. You never forget a task, execute it flawlessly, and are as reliable as clockwork.

• High Horsepower & Humility: High intellectual and physical energy. You eagerly solve big, complex, and ambiguous company problems, while having the humility to “roll your sleeves up” and do the dirty work without complaint.

• Creative Thinker: Highly creative thinker who tends to find solutions that others don’t see or inappropriately dismiss. Not content to do the safe bet everyone else takes.

• Relentlessly Resourceful (http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html): highly proactive, does not quit, and finds innovative solutions with little guidance. Bias for action and ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment with a high degree of autonomy.

• Passion for Men’s Health & Development: interest in helping men develop a healthy masculinity. Demonstrates personal dedication and interest in health optimization (e.g. diet, exercise, sleep, focus, and relationships).

World-Class Benefits:

• Premium Blue Shield Platinum PPO & HMO Plans (up to 80% coverage)

• Full Suite: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance

• Best-in-class 401K options

• Flexible vacation/time-off policies

• Liquidity of options whenever available

• Extended options exercise window for loyal employees (3 months for every year of service; e.g. 1 year for 4+ year employees)

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer, which not only includes standard protected categories, but the additional freedom from discrimination against your free speech and beliefs, as long as they are aligned with company values. We celebrate intellectual diversity.