Teespring (YC W13) Is Hiring a DevOps Lead
ABOUT TEESPRING:

Teespring is a commerce platform that empowers anyone to design and sell products that people love. Its world-class platform powers all aspects of bringing merchandise to life from production and manufacturing to supply chain, logistics, and customer service. By unlocking commerce for everyone, Teespring is creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs, influencers, community organizers, and anyone who rallies communities around particular causes or specific passions.

A graduate of the Winter 2013 class Y-Combinator and backed by Andreesen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, Teespring launched in 2012 and has helped its users sell over 7 million shirts in more than 80 countries. In 2014, 1 in 75 people in the US purchased a Teespring product! The Operations Software Development Team is focused on building, enhancing and scaling Teespring’s custom state-of-the-art operations and fulfillment systems as well as integrating with our worldwide fulfillment partners.

DEVOPS LEAD OVERVIEW:
We need someone to take our DevOps organization world wide this year. Your objective is to build 24/7 support for multiple engineering sites (USA - SF, KY, RI, UK - London, India), a migration plan for moving from Heroku to AWS, redundancy for key systems, DB health optimization and scaling, a business continuity/disaster recovery plan, EU Data compliance, 5 minute code deploys/rollbacks, and add support for isolated engineering environments (Docker/Vagrant) to start. Additionally you’ll assist the engineering team as we migrate into a micro services architecture.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Strong scripting skills in Ruby or Python
Strong Bash scripting skills
Large scale Linux sysadmin skils (100+ servers)
Deep Cloud Hosting (AWS)
Experience with Configuration Management Tools (Chef, Puppet, OpsWorks)
Strong Database Management and Scaling (RDS, Postgres and MySQL)
CDN, Caching & Security (CloudFront, CloudFlare)
Systems Monitoring and Alerting (PagerDuty, Nagios, Munin)
Continuous Integration/Deploy (Jenkins, CircleCI)
At scale experience optimizing web app frameworks, specifically RoR applications
Familiarity with agile software development concepts

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
3+ year of engineering operations experience with web technologies
Container Management (Docker, Vagrant)
Experience deploying Service Oriented Architectures

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develop high-quality automation and deploy systems that are scalable and reliable
Assist with the creation of systems and tools that boost the efficiency of our operations
Building larger scale apps and custom fulfillment backends for high-volume shipments
Provide the company with insight into operations through Monitoring & Alerting

COMPETENCIES:
Thrive in an autonomous and entrepreneurial environment
Are obsessed with figuring out solutions to complex problems
Passionate about automation, learning new technologies and systems
Know how to spot user pain-points and craft a solution
Are excited to hit the ground running at a high-growth company

BENEFITS AND PERKS:
Teespring offers competitive compensation and a generous benefits & perks package to all full-time employees including:
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision Insurance
Company contributions toward Health Savings Accounts (HSA) accounts
Liberal paid time off (in the first year!)
9 Paid holidays
Generous stock options
Daily company-provided catered lunch and abundant snacks
Prolific FUN with monthly social activities, game room, and endless free t-shirts!

Please email your resume to ashley.hearn@teespring.com to learn more!