DevOps Engineer

We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!

About Topsort

At Topsort, we believe in the mission of democratizing the secret technologies of the walled gardens and creating a privacy-first cookie-free world of clean advertising with modern tech, friendly products, and AI. We believe in making advertising intuitive, intelligent, and genuinely cool, without any of the creepy ads or cookie-obsession (well, maybe just the chocolate ones). In a rapidly changing industry, we're on a mission to democratize monetization access for all and ensure that advertising doesn't leave any brand or seller feeling confused or overwhelmed

Today, Topsort has 5 major hubs worldwide, and employees in 13+ countries, including Menlo Park, Boston, Santiago Chile, Sao Paulo Brazil, Barcelona Spain, and Sydney Australia. We are a truly global company that was born in the pandemic that’s had rapid growth since out of a genius product, a customer-first mentality, and a hardworking team of talented individuals. Since our founding in 2021, we’ve gained customers in retail, marketplaces, and delivery apps in 40+ countries and quickly approaching the #1 position in the industry.

Why Topsort? Why now?

Topsort is changing the way Retail Media works. By joining our scaling team, you'll feel your impact from day 1. The processes and messaging you build today will be a critical part of our foundation as we accelerate toward 200 Topsorters worldwide, and your innovations will leave a lasting mark on the industry, as a whole. Retail Media is on the verge of a new era, and Topsort is gathering the ecosystem together to shape a brighter future. Joining us now, you'll work directly alongside our co-founders and founding members to bring on Retail Media 3.0. If you're looking to define your career as something greater than yourself, come scale with us.

What it’s like to work at Topsort

Our team is all about straightforward communication, embracing feedback without taking it personally, and fostering a super collaborative environment. It’s a sports team that’s hyper focused on winning, collaborative internally, and competitive externally - never the other way around. 

We thrive on working in the open, lifting each other up, and getting things done with a sense of urgency. We're the kind of team that loves making bold choices, sharing extraordinary opinions, and maintaining a 100 mph pace. No endless meetings here – if it can be done today, we're all about getting it done today.

What is this role like?

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure that powers our products. Your role will be essential in ensuring that our systems are scalable, secure, and highly available. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, has a passion for automation, and can lead technical initiatives that directly impact the success of our products.

• Design and maintain scalable cloud architectures, implementing solutions that ensure high availability and optimal performance.
• Develop and enhance our CI/CD pipelines, automating processes to increase the efficiency of the development team.
• Implement and manage monitoring and observability systems to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives in our DevOps practices and system architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.
• Mentor other team members and promote best engineering practices.

What (we think) you need to be successful - we’re open to not checking all the boxes and be proven wrong by outlier candidates as well!

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps / Platform / SRE roles, designing and maintaining cloud architectures.
• Strong experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Proficiency in containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid experience in cloud networking and security (VPCs, subnets, ACLs, VPNs).
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Consul, Linkerd) and API platforms (Kong, KrakenD, Tyk, Apigee).
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Tekton, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting (Bash).
• Strong programming skills in Python and Golang.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (openTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent design and implementation of cloud architectures and DevOps practices (GitOps, etc.).
• Ability to design solutions that scale efficiently and ensure high availability.
• Experience in designing and implementing API and microservices architectures.
• Strong programming expertise in Python and Golang, including best practices and design patterns.
• Solid problem-solving skills and analytical thinking.
• Experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring other engineers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to Have:

• AWS Solutions Architect Certification (Associate or Professional).
• Experience with multiple cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of microservices architectures.

Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!