Job description
At Roofr, we’re obsessed with our customers. We constantly gather feedback to shape, prioritize, and launch the products they truly need. That’s what makes Roofr’s CRM special. We started by building essential sales tools like aerial roof measurements and digital sales proposals. But when our customers asked for a simple, affordable way to manage and scale their entire businesses, we listened. So, we created a CRM that connects these solutions—along with payments, material ordering, and more—into a seamless, powerful platform. With a clear roadmap ahead, we’re excited to continue expanding and leading the market with innovative products.
We have an amazing culture, strong financials, and best-in-class company metrics. It’s an exciting time to be part of an extraordinary startup that is already successful, yet still early enough to offer its team significant growth, equity, and the opportunity to make a real impact.
If you are a passionate engineering leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high impact and high growth environment, please read on! We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to continuously improve our development operations and support the reliability and availability of all our applications and services deployed to the cloud.
What you get to do:
- Partner with various engineering teams to own and manage availability, latency, performance, reliability and scalability of all services to maintain SLAs that our customers expect from us
- Provide strong technical leadership and people management to the team
- Act as a SME and demonstrate end-to-end ownership of SRE function with automation-first mindset
- Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Software Engineers across the organization to deliver a comprehensive solution for SRE discipline and set effective SLOs/SLIs and error budgets for all services
- Define well-defined processes, methodologies, metrics and KPIs to drive accountability
- Own and drive cloud cost management, capacity planning and performance management and partner with engineering leaders to optimize for performance and cost
- Drive instrumentation of services for end-to-end Observability - Monitoring, Alerting, Metrics, Logging and Dashboard
- Own and drive incident management process, conduct blameless post mortems and publish incident reports, maintain runbooks and on-call schedules
- Coordinate with product development engineering teams on change management and release management processes
- Be an evangelist for SRE best practices
- Champion and implement strong DevSecOps principles and SDLC best practices
- Coach, mentor and cross-train team members
- Servant leadership and Agile DNA
What you bring to the role:
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years of building and managing technical processes in SRE, DevOps or other related domains
- Experience supporting infrastructure and services in public cloud environments; AWS required
- Experience leading SRE team with strong emphasis on automation and continuous improvement
- Hands-on experience in developing applications in one or more language stacks: Java, Python, Ruby, Javascript, Go, etc.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of one or more of Infrastructure-as-Code tools and technologies: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Packer, etc.
- Strong knowledge of network engineering and foundational network protocols and services such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, etc.
- Experience with Agile software development and Scrum methodology
- Great communication, collaboration and presentation skills
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- AWS certification
- Expertise in Linux systems
- Experience building and managing fault tolerant large scale distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience in one or more of Containers and Container Orchestration frameworks: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon Fargate, etc.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps and Pipeline-As-Code: ArgoCD, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab CI/CD, etc.
- Experience with Microservices architecture and CNCF ecosystem
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
🏠 What we offer (US + Canada)
When you join our team, you’re not just accepting a job. You’re making a career move. Here’s how we’ll support you in doing some of the most impactful work of your career:
🏝️ Vacation/Paid Time Off:
- 1st week of employment is mandatory PTO! Start your journey with Roofr by decompressing and recharging - we will see you in week 2!
- 1 Friday off per month (we call those our laundry days!)
- Company wide paid shutdown for the week between Christmas and New Years
- Flexible time off
- 80% employer paid benefits
- RRSP/401k match
- Generous Parental Leave policy
🤝 Perks:
- We host 2 retreats per year and great team building activities
- Ample learning and development opportunities to continue growing your career
- Home office setup stipend
- Internet and phone allowance
- Remote first culture
- Weekly Friday paydays!
🤖 AI Notice
At Roofr, we’re big fans of AI. It helps us write job descriptions that don’t put you to sleep, takes notes during interviews so we can actually listen, and even helps us track down awesome humans like you.
Feel free to use AI to prep, research, or get pumped up for your interview (we see you, ChatGPT power users 👀). But when it’s time to chat, we’d love to meet you, not your AI alter ego. Bring your real, unfiltered self, we promise we will too.
And don’t worry, a real, live human is behind every part of our process. Every application is reviewed by a real person, and you’ll always speak with real humans throughout the interview process. No bots, just good people ☺️
⚠️ Important Notice
We’ve been made aware of an individual impersonating Roofr using a fraudulent domain: roofrr.com (note the extra “r”). Our company takes the security and privacy of job applicants very seriously. We will never ask for payment, bank details, or personal financial information as part of the application process. All our legitimate job postings can be found on our official career site. Please be cautious of job offers that come from non-company email addresses, instant messaging platforms, or unsolicited calls.
To ensure your application is legitimate, please apply directly through our official careers page: https://roofr.com/careers.
If you receive any suspicious messages or have questions, reach out to us at [email protected].
Your safety and security are important to us — thank you for your vigilance!
Roofr is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in the workplace regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status.
